An excellent clarification of how the universities are run.
This among many other reasons is why the Catholic Church is losing all credibility!
Just like all “foundations” -— these charitable boards ALWAYS drift to the left.
Hesburgh er Jenkins rather (Freudian slip) has the power and he IS a Priest.
So, in the 1960s, the founding Religious communities formally transferred ownership of, and rights to control, many of these famous universities to non-Church corporations which impaneled boards, overwhelmingly peopled not by Religious but by others, not reporting to the Church, to run the schools. >>>
I think i’ve read this on another thread and correct me if I’m wrong, wasn’t this a violation of Canon Law?
Maybe we could start a corresponding blue envelope campaign:
Send a blue envelope addressed to President Obama at the White House, and enclose a small note and a $10 check:
Dear Mr. President,
Because of your stated appreciation of “Catholics, with their rich tradition of recognizing the dignity of people” I thought it would be fitting for you to be able to persoanlly pass along my enclosed restricted donation for “Notre Dame Right to Life” to the university president, Fr. Jenkins, when you are visiting Our Lady’s university in South Bend.
This donation will support and promote the rich tradition you admire among the furutre leaders of America as they recognize and promote the dignity of people — especially vulnerable black and latino mothers (whose neighborhoods big abortion targets) and their unborn children (whose lives are snuffed out by abortion at an alarming rate) — by working to secure the right of all persons to be born.
No civilized society can advocate public policy that affords any person a right to demand the death of any other innocent, voiceless and vulnerable person.
This donation has the following restrictions: It must be used exclusively to increase the funding of
Notre Dame Right to Life
314 LaFortune Student Center
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
above and beyond any programmed amount or budgeted funding of Notre Dame Right to Life by any other funding source, including any University of Notre Dame entity or office. This donation must be used to support overtly anti-abortion activities, chosen at the sole discretion of the student officers of Notre Dame Right to Life, and must be used prior to April 1, 2010.
Please let Father Jenkins know that I have made my check out to “University of Notre Dame” and have referenced the above detailed restriction on this gift in the memo line as “Restricted: NDRTL anti-abortion budget increase.”
I am praying for the enlightenment of your mind and the softening of your heart so that you can unreservedly embrace the rich tradition of recognizing the dignity of ALL people and join in our effort to restore the most basic of human rights - the right to life - for all.
Most earnestly,
John Q. Public
Yes, it is a good explanation.