I hope you are right. It will take something like that to have an effect. The enemy respects nothing but brute power.
Do you think he cares? Jenkins is a philosophy professor who took on this job out of duty, not ambition. I imagine he’d like nothing better than to return to his philosophy teaching.
When will people learn that the president of a university is not a powerbroker. He’s in the crossfire between faculty, board, students, alumni and parents. He can never please all of them. If he alienates big donors or faculty, he gets fired. You don’t fire the donors, you don’t fire the faculty (because the faculty’s research prestige is the university’s marketable “product.”
If Jenkins were fired, nothing would change. What drives the decisions are marketing factors. And the sad truth is that the market for “Catholic education” today doesn’t give a damn about pro-life or other Catholic teachings.
For God’s sake, people, focus your anger at the board, at the faculty of Notre Dame, at the donors who won’t pull their donations (because most of them are themselves only CINOS). That’s where the problem is. Jenkins is small potatoes in all of this. He’s the messenger boy. The message is created by the huge reservoir of CINOism out there in the culture.