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You’re half right. Notre Dame is a disgrace. But to call Benedict a major disappointment only highlights your unrealistic expectations and not any failure on his part. He’s the pope, not God. Notre Dame is in OUR country and is the problem of OUR hierarchy and Church. And OUR hierarchy failed. Only about 75 or so bishops spoke up. That’s nothing!!!

I'm a practicing Catholic and my opinion is that Pope Benedict showed a failure of leadership. The proper place for the Pope on Sunday was standing shoulder to shoulder at the alternate graduation ceremony with the Bishop of the Notre Dame Diocese.

That appearance would have forced the American Catholic hierarchy to crap or get off the pot.

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“I’m a practicing Catholic and my opinion is that Pope Benedict showed a failure of leadership. The proper place for the Pope on Sunday was standing shoulder to shoulder at the alternate graduation ceremony with the Bishop of the Notre Dame Diocese.”

You are completely wrong. The proper place of the pope was in his church at his altar tending to HIS first flock. That’s Rome - not Notre Dame in Indiana. He was in Israel until the 15th. Do you REALLY expect him to fly all the way to Podunk, Indiana because Notre Dame is led by a moron? If you do, then you are completely out of your mind. He’s an 82 or 83 year old man and was never much of a last second jet setter. Popes do not fly around to hotspots on the drop of a dime nor should they.

“That appearance would have forced the American Catholic hierarchy to crap or get off the pot.”

If you believe that then you’re out of touch with reality. Obama might not have been able to give his nonsensical speech, but NOTHING would have changed with OUR hierarchy. Those bishops who are orthodox and brave would have continued to be so. Those who are not, would have stayed away at all costs. It’s just that simple.