No more than eating at McDonalds gives you the right to call yourself a cheeseburger.
He does make Catholics who support him less Catholic.
“Fr” Jenkins has made Notre Dame less Catholic. Obama is just the tool he did it with.
I glanced over the above, did I miss the part where he defended the school’s decision to honor Barack Obama, abortion advocate, with a degree?
He makes the claim that “Obama doesn’t make Notre Dame LESS Catholic”. Maybe they aren’t Catholic at all. That would make sense.
Does Las Vegas have odds on that? I'm not too convinced myself.
Give him time.
Catholic is as Catholic does. The actions of protesting Catholics and the likes of the American Life League are not making Notre Dame less Catholic. That is being done by none other than Notre Dame and Fr. Jenkins.
For a "Catholic University" to endorse a person (give him an honorary degree) who is at direct odds with the Catholic Church is putting souls at risk.
The American Life League and other groups who don't want Obama to speak here should keep protesting, as it is certainly their right and they have valid points, but don't tell us we're not being Catholic enough.
You are not practicing your faith by not speaking out sir.
We've heard it before and I'm sure we'll hear it again. But that statue of Mary on top of the Dome isn't coming down anytime soon, and long after Obama has spoken, Notre Dame will still continue to be "a powerful force for good."
How can you be sure that The Virgin wont be covered with a cloth or some other device like at Georgetown?
“I don’t equate Barak Obama with Adolph Hitler”............not yet......Hitler presided over the extermination of 6 million Jews.......Obama has assumed the mantel as POTUS doing everything in his power to advance abortion even pushing partial birth abortions (over 40 million abortions)Hitler had his brown shirts to watch his back and Obama has ACORN to intimidate and fix elections. Hitler nationalized the banks and other businesses just as Obama is doing now.
Looks like another CINO writing stories about something she knows nothing about?
This ND student misses, intentionally or not, the inherent weakness in her statement. Her ‘defense’ would do a high school sophomore proud. For a graduate or near-graduate of a ‘premier’ Catholic University, it is laughably shallow. No one is claiming ND is less ‘Catholic’ for inviting a virulently pro-abortion politician to speak. The point is that HONORING and REWARDING him with a Law degree is an insult to and denial the fundamental beliefs which supposedly underlie her ‘alma mater.’ The ‘honor’ implicitly lends support and credence to Obama’s fanatical support of abortion. The university is publicly endorsing and trivializing a fundamental truth of the religion it purports to support and which it milks for donations and support.
The fact that she neither feels insulted by nor recognizes the insult to what are the proclaimed principles of the university of this action, just reveals the inadequacy of the education received, or rather the actual learning she did as a student there. The actions of Fr. Jenkins and the transparent rationalization of them by alumni and students supporting him reveal the moral shallowness which has enveloped education at Notre Dame.
Note Dame is making Notre Dame less catholic.
Yes it does..same as bringing Stalin to give a speech at convent would.
Sorry, Kaitlynn. You're not being Catholic enough. If you were, Notre Dame would never even consider awarding a degree to the premier abortion provider; nor would the students, faculty, or alums tolerate it.
It is going to be really interesting to watch the Notre Dame commencement. Really interesting.
This is Stockholm Syndrome from a liberal modernist too young to know or remember what a real Catholic college is.
Having the statue of Mary on the top of the dome doesn’t mean the same thing it does to Fr. Jenkins as it did to the founder, Fr. Sorin. Anyone can have a statue, but not everyone believes all that it stands for. After all, I have seen Madonna (and all manner of entertainers) wear a crucifix. Do they believe in what it stands for?
Fr. Sorin would have a seizure were he alive today and able to see what Jenkins and others have done at his university.
Using that argument as a reference, you could say that inviting a devil worshiping homosexual to preach at your church’s pulpit doesn’t make the church any less Christian. There are just some things you don’t do.