Posted on 05/17/2009 2:26:17 PM PDT by NYer
Did they get arrested, too?
Obama looked a little unnerved when that baby started crying in the middle of his apologia for abortion.
Obama, like all self-proclaimed messiahs, markets himself as a "uniter;"
nobody has done more to divide the Church in memory than Obama.
There’s a good chance the baby crying was just a recording, but still...nice effect (I’m disappointed more people didn’t come with crying-baby ringtones).
Being the cynic I am, I think there’s also a good chance the cheering masses were hired.
I was about to post and then read your note, you described and summed up my feelings exactly... down to the crying of the little child. That was a sign from Christ.
ND is no longer Catholic.
Was he being "punished with a baby?"
From about the time of that remark, I've associated Obama with the candidate in "The Dead Zone," the one who holds a baby up to shield himself from a sniper...I guess that wouldn't be considered "horror" these days.
Looked all over for a still shot of that memorable scene, but couldn't find one.
That's it in a nutshell but we need to add the valedictorian,father Jenkins and the cheering audience to that.
What an incredible embarrassment. To think that a Catholic University could gather such a large group of ignorami or sly deceivers and think that they were accomplishing anything that would be pleasing to God or to men of good will is a cause for concern.
I cannot believe that a school dedicated to education totally misses the fact there although there are few "truths" and "facts" wherein faith and reason,or revelation and science agree,there is definitely one. And that is life. Both areas know that a unique being is created at conception and that unique life exists to natural death.
Only when this truth is accepted can the dialog begin. Notre Dame is now a joke to all thinking men as well as to all good men.
My head is still spinning just thinking about how absurd all of them were. I just hope I pray that most of them were hoodwinked because they were/are ignorant of the facts and devoid of critical thinking skills. To think that they may be sly deceivers is scarier.
Raymond Arroyo was absolutely brilliant,he was interviewed on CNN before and during the ceremonies. father Martin from America was the catholic spokesman from the left and I hope he gets his walking papers.
I too was also very disgusted with this comparison and with the cheering response from the crowd. The killing of many for the sake of a few.......Lord have Mercy on us!
It was sad, shameful, embarrassing.
Worse than it could have been.
They shouldn't have enabled him to use that platform to give a speech advancing abortion and embryonic stem cell research.
Notre Dame's Kabuki Dance with Obama and the Culture of Death
Do you have a link to Raymond Arryo? I don’t do CNN, so I missed it.
Amen to that my sister.
President Obama has come to Notre Dame, though he knows well that we are fully supportive of Church teaching on the sanctity of human life, and we oppose his policies on abortion and embryonic stem cell research.
He is covering his butt! He is saying... oh please, don't stop the donations! We don't agree with Obama on every matter, so please don't stop the gravy!
This should never have been an issue if Father Jenkins had actually been listening to the voices of the church, rather than appeasing the secular left.
Who is Jenkins going to ultimately bow before? President Obama, or our Blessed Holy Mother?
I think we know the answer.
Well said, Jay!
With all due respect, Rev. Jenkins:
Take your tolerance and stuff it up your ass. We are not called to tolerate evil. If you think you can twist Christ’s commandment to “love our enemies” into a duty to compromise our beliefs, you’re fooling yourself, and this American Catholic is going to call you on it.
Loving our enemies does not mean being “nice” to them. It does not mean allowing them to spew poison into the ears of the young. I means taking them firmly by the shoulders and saying “Brother, you are being used as a tool of the Enemy. Repent and recant your lies so that we may walk together in the Light of the Lord.”
You could have used this as the opportunity of a lifetime to proclaim the Truth of the Catholic Church to the world. Instead, you have taken Our Lady and strapped her to an abortionist’s table.
Shame, shame on you, you whitewashed tomb. May God forgive you.
I’m sorry,I don’t have it,I watched it live. Maybe EWTN taped it and will run it this coming week. It was great.
St. John of the Cross says that we judge others by our own predominant faults.
I am not a modernist heretic. I believe in the Catholic faith that was rejected out there today.
Father Jenkins should be ashamed to be a Catholic for his remarks and his honoring of 0bama and what he stands for. He has been blinded by popularity (mostly media fawning). I pray that he realizes his mistakes and confesses his sins.
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