Posted on 04/08/2009 3:07:24 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
I hope that Notre Dame is flooded with protesters.
And still he grins.
Maybe so. Too bad more prolifers don't crave the limelight as well as he does. Maybe a few more lives would be saved. Somebody once warned against setting your light under a bushel.
You have a personal problem with this guy don't you. Face it. Whatever beef you have with him is irrelevant here.
The Lord uses the most damaged of vessels to carry His message. And last I looked, we all better be praying for God's mercy rather than His justice, if we know what's good for us.
Talk about quiet respectful protests is fine but they won't impact the awareness of the public. And the body public needs a very serious wake-up call.
All a ruse to get real Right to Life advocates to push the Republican bus up the hill.
And now the abomination that is Obama is getting ready for FOCA, and is scheduled to be honored by Notre Dame.
And even now, pro-lifers are told to quiet down, appear 'moderate' et ceterwhatever.
Nothing moderate about killing babies via abortion. Pro-lifers need to oppose it and Obama like doing so was a matter of life and death.
Because it is.
Perhaps Randy should have been more transparent and explicit about his plans (if he even had a plan at that time). Fine
But, the bottom line is that if all the bishops had been doing their jobs for the last 40 years, Burke would not have found himself in the position that he did.
One of the good ones (whose name I do not know), has said that the are going to have to do the work on this matter. What he did not say is that the majority of bishops will be in hunker down mode until this storm passes. (And I hope to be proven wrong on that.)
He is to be commended for behaving as we all should.
The German people have the excuse that the nazis would have killed them if they tried to stop the murder.
What is our excuse?
..hardly anyone here wants to see the distinction I'm trying to make between earnest, caring Catholics (& others) who hope to make a difference...
..and someone I fear is there to create a circus.
So be it.
I need not give my credentials in the pro-life cause to satisfy your accusations.... but credit me at least with not hiding my light under a bushel....because I haven't.
So be it.
I think Terry’s methods will backfire. He may have been a good tactician in the big Operation Rescue sit-downs, but he embarrassed himself and undermined Archbishop Burke’s valiant efforts from Rome when he (Terry), apparently without permission from the archbishop, posted an interview with Burke on YouTube. He seems to have little sense of the protocols of Catholicism. Converts (and I am one of them) need to take a few years to learn the unspoken principles and procedures before trying to be high-profile activists within their new home. That would be just as true if one converted from Catholicism to Pentecostalism or Mormonism or Judaism or scientism or whatever. If one wishes to be an effective member of one’s new group, one needs to study how it lives and breathes and work within it.
Terry will actually draw the focus away from Obama’s vicious adherence to the Culture of Death and toward himself. I wish he’d stay out of it. Plenty of others with plenty of pro-life street cred were already planning their tactics. If Terry had an ounce of humility and prudence, he’d quietly join them, disappear into their ranks and help them. But Terry has to be the leading light. This is not the first time he’s done that. It’s a pattern for him and suggests some character weaknesses.
This is what I linked to, #37, the idea of a teach-in (faculty-led and even Bishop-led) and what I was asking your comment upon.
Here's one iteration of the idea:
I think a week-long teach-in on "What Pro-Life Means, from theological, philosophical, medical, ethical, and moral pro-life perspectives" and "Obama's Record So Far: Why It is Grotesque and Dangerous" and "Academic Freedom and the Catholic University" and related topics, could be creative and splendid.
It should be led (at least in a titular sense, but ideally, via real authoritative teaching --- it's the bishop's job) by Bishop D'Arcy, and supported by all the great people you mentioned, plus all 10 of the Holy Cross priests who signed the CSCC Priests' Public Statement against Honoring Obama.
I'm going to send this as a request to those 10 priests, plus D'Arcy. I reckon a snail-mail letter would reach them c/o the University of Notre Dame address, right?
What do you think?
This sounds good.
And something strong and dignified from prolife graduates. Total silence, total solemnity (if it could be achieved), no applause --- wouldn't that be impressive?
I share some of the anxieties about Terry. I used to work for him (in the Manhattan and Atlanta campaigns of '88, thrill of victory, agony of defeat) and was glad when I left Atlanta, which ended up rather a mess.
Yet, while the rest of us potter about in our excess of meekness, yonder comes Terry flashing his excess of zeal. I could see, by some miraculous skin-of-our-teeth turn of events, a good outcome if the Graduation itself were solemn and sober, while simultaneously Terry (there's no stopping him, is there?) leads the disreputable fetus-loving rabble to Lepanto-outside-the-gates:
Risen from a doubtful seat and half-attainted stall,
The last knight of Europe takes weapons from the wall,
The last and lingering troubadour to whom the bird has sung,
That once went singing southward when all the world was young,
In that enormous silence, tiny and unafraid,
Comes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade.
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