[Lurking in Kansas]

Money talks....

[Man50D]

The Pope needs to publicly denounce the invitation.

[ScottinVA]

Glad to hear that!!

[Vaquero]

the Bottom Line really is the bottom line.

GOD BLESS CAPITALISM!

[PhiKapMom]

I have been waiting for this to happen. Figured the alumni were not happy.

[Tallguy]

In this day & age the chief function of a university president is to solicit donations. Notre Dame’s alumni are hitting the good reverend right where it hurts. His job performance is going to suffer.

[OldNavyVet]

There are some wonderful priests out there that need support; nuns, too.

Donate your money where your heart directs.

[Lancey Howard]

Money talks.

[matginzac]

Excellent! Maybe this will get the Pope’s attention, if not the Bishops’ - yes, money talks. When the wizard who was president of Wm and Mary in Wmsbrg took the Holy Cross out of the Wren chapel for fear of “offending” someone (good grief!), the alums got pissed and took their money away. Two ticks and prez was histoire! Buh-bye...

[ChocChipCookie]

Good. I think it’s time some lines were drawn. Either the university is Catholic, and not in name only, or it’s not.

[Salvation]

Hold your contributions/donations and keep FReeping notre Dame!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231446/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230231/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2210995/posts?page=28#28

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2210995/posts?page=87#87

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2210995/posts?page=101#101

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2210995/posts?page=102#102

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2212664/posts?page=29#29

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2212664/posts?page=37#37

[mrmargaritaville]

So assuming that ND lacks the balls to cancel the big O (as in zero) I wonder if they will cover any\all religious symbols for his commencement address. In the event that ND moves forward with their plans, I hope the ceremony is outside at the football stadium-and that “Touchdown Jesus” looms large over the ceremony.

[The Great RJ]

That Obama demanded and got Georgetown to remove a Christian symbol says a lot about his lack of respect for Christianity and especially Catholicism. That Georgetown agreed to this demand is a travesty. Notre Dame should take note.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well?

Did you sign it yet?

And did you send it to
everybody in your Address Book?

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The STOP OBAMA AT NOTRE DAME petition has now surged (as of posting time) to over 300,000 signatures. Whoop! Let's make it an even half-a-million!

Click here: OBAMA NOTRE DAME SCANDAL.COM - - - PETITION

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I'm posting, from the Cardinal Newman Society, the sponsors of the petition, excerpts of their quite encouraging recent thank you message.

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Dear Friend:

Thank you for signing the petition at NotreDameScandal.com...

More than 264,000 [Note: now 307,959 prolife people] have signed the petition at NotreDameScandal.com, including many priests, Notre Dame families, college presidents and even some bishops!

“Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has urged faithful Catholics to do what you are supposed to be doing: to call, to email, to write letters, to express what’s in your heart about this”!

[snip] MSNBC, FOX News, EWTN, TIME magazine, U.S. News & World Report, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and more – has pointed to the LARGE NUMBER of protesters at NotreDameScandal.com!

Leading Cardinals and Archbishops – have declared Notre Dame’s planned honor of Obama a “travesty,” “unconscionable,” “indefensible,” “a public act of disobedience to the Bishops,” and “seemingly without regard for the mission of the Catholic Church in the United States”!

At 7:00 a.m. Monday morning we are going to print the first wave of petitions, and what a statement it would make if Father Jenkins and the bishops (including some of our friends in Rome) saw that we had 300,000, 350,000 or even 400,000 Catholics and others demanding that Notre Dame live up to its Holy mission!

As much as pro-abortion Catholics want to make this a partisan issue, you and I know that at its core this scandal is about Catholic institutions standing up as a witness for life at this moment in history when it is under constant attack.

My entire staff and I have devoted nearly every hour to this protest since the moment the scandal broke, and to be honest with you this effort is breaking our budget. If necessary, The Cardinal Newman Society will go broke to help stop the Notre Dame scandal… but I hope that is not God’s plan for us.

Please consider what level of support you can give [click here.]

May God bless you for your faithful witness to the truth, and may He inspire Father Jenkins to withdraw this scandalous honor to Barack Obama!

Yours in Christ,

Patrick J. Reilly

President, The Cardinal Newman Society

[bgill]

launched an online campaign to withhold donations to the Catholic school until the Rev. John Jenkins is replaced as president.

Yes, money talks but withholding donations will also affect students' scholarships. It's not the students' fault but this action will hurt them.

[kellynla]

Thanks for posting!

[Labyrinthos]

During his first 100 days in office, President Obama has signed an order to allow taxpayer funding for stem cell research that kills human embryos; he resumed the use of taxpayer dollars for international groups that support or perform abortions; and his administration has proposed rescinding conscience protections for pro-life medical professionals. During his campaign, Obama promised the Planned Parenthood Federation of America that “the first thing I’d do as president” would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act into law. The federal legislation would eliminate state and federal restrictions on abortion, including waiting periods, parental consent, and the ban on partial-birth abortion.

In addition, the 0bama tax plan, if aoproved, will substantially reduce, if not eliminate, tax deductions for charitable contributions to colleges and universities.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The decent prolife alumni who are withholding donations from Notre Dame due to the Obama stink, have recommended that donors give specifically to this on-campus group instead: these are the students and faculty who are struggling over the long haul to promote prolife values and the ethical integrity of Notre Dame.

Friendlies, high-fives, prayers and encouragement to:

The Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life
c/o Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
1047 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: 574-631-9656
Fax: 574-631-6290
Email: ndethics@nd.edu

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[50mm]

[jmaroneps37]

Send back our Notre Dame gear: if Father Jenkins won’t listen to us maybe he’ll listen to his wallet
April 13, 2009, 6:50 am
By Kevin “Coach” Collins

http://collinsreport.net

If Notre Dame won’t withdraw its invitation to Barack Obama the champion of abortion, Catholics and others of goodwill have to withdraw support for Notre Dame. It’s time to take direct action and let our feelings be known.

Father Corby’s dream of a Catholic college dedicated to Our Lady as a place where young Catholic men and now women could receive a Catholic education is obviously no longer a Catholic school.

I’m tired of phonies masquerading as Catholics and aiding enemies of the Church with backstabbing stunts like this. Since Notre Dame wants to suck up to the secular world, let the secular world support it. Let’s have nothing more to do with them and send Father Jenkins the ND gear we’ll never wear again.

ND gear should be sent to Father John I. Jenkins at 400 Main Building Notre Dame, IN 46556.

We don’t need to show support for a football team. We need a Catholic university to turn out educated Catholics strong in their faith.

Inviting Obama sends a terrible message to the young people sent to Notre Dame for spiritual nourishment and intellectual growth. Without spiritual nourishment what’s left is a secular school unworthy of our support.

To do the most good and make the most impact send your new or laundered ND gear via return receipt requested mail. This will make a big impact as packages pile up. Once you have your package ready write out a short polite note letting Father Jenkins know how disappointed you are at the death of Notre Dame. Wait a few days then phone Father Jenkins at 574 6313903 to make sure your package was received.

If Notre Dame doesn’t want to be Catholic, that’s fine, but let’s have no more pretending it’s more than a secular maze of buildings.

Notre Dame gets a very large portion of its operating budget from the sales of items with the famous ND logo on them. It is possible to buy “Notre Dame” everything from Tee shirts and windbreakers to notebooks and even Bar B Q sauce. Hitting them in their wallet is the only move we have left. They have already had more than 250, 000 protesters register their complaints and nothing has happened.

Catholic colleges are supposed to be the “little black box” of the Church in America. As such they supposed to be places where things are done properly. Instead they have turned secular and become exactly the opposite of what they should be.

I’m sending my old ND Tee shirt this afternoon. I’m sorry it came to this but we can’t let the people who run THE Catholic University of America, our Catholic University throw its reputation away without a fight.

Once this catches on we’ll start getting attention to our cause and maybe more somnambulant Catholics will come to understand what is happening at our un-Catholic Catholic schools.