[Mrs. Don-o]

I know how you feel. But the "orders" he's under from "Rome" are not from the pope, but from his CSC Superior headquartered in Rome. And there's probably four more heads on the totem pole between that guy and the pope. The Church isn't a papal autocracy, though I often find myself wishing it were.

In April '09 I spent a lot of time getting the info on Notre Dame's Trustees, Fellows, and Administrators, all the way up to the CSC Superior in Rome, so we could phone, send letters and emails, etc, to protest the Omabanation, but to no avail.

As for the Pope, he's on his way to England, Scotland, and Israel -- England, where Dawkins and Hitchens want to have him arrested for the crime of being against condoms, Scotland where Catholic properties are being sold off for restaurans and mosques, and Israel where Shimon Peres wants Benedict to intervene with the raggies to release Gilad Shalit, as if he were not only infallible, but omnipotent as well. (Pray for him.)

I don't think he's focusing, right now, on an Associate Vice-President for Resident Affairs in South Bend, Indiana, who got a handshake and a pink slip probably for being prolife (though no one would admit that.) Alas.

Personally, I'm so mad at the CSC's I could spit staples. And as for that Judas Jenkins...

[rbosque]

Well, I recall that Catholic Universities were supposed to adhere to a mandatum, which I would have imagined would extend to the behavior of the school’s staff. It just seems incredible to me that a priest would deliberately thumb his nose at the Church and it’s teaching especially in regards to ‘life issues’. I remember sending the school a letter years ago over their decision to show the Vagina Monologues. Perhaps the powers that be need to remove the school’s Catholic Charter...