Notre Dame Complies With Contraception Mandate

National Catholic Register ^ | 1/9/14 | JOAN FRAWLEY DESMOND

[BlatherNaut]

...But on Jan. 2, 2014, Notre Dame told faculty and staff that a third-party administrator would notify them about access to “free” contraception and other mandated provisions of the federal law. The news marked the university’s failure to obtain emergency relief from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, after a U.S. district court refused to issue a temporary injunction before the Jan. 1 deadline. “Having been denied a stay, Notre Dame is advising employees that, pursuant to the Affordable Care Act, our third-party administrator is required to notify plan participants of coverage provided under its contraceptives payment program,” said Paul Browne, Notre Dame’s vice president for public affairs and communications, in a Jan. 2 statement to university employees that was reported by radio station WNDU. Browne’s statement noted that employees’ access to the mandated provisions could be reversed at a later date, subject to the outcome of Note Dame’s legal challenge.

[RobbyS]

Jenkins is just a flunky. It is the Board that rules.

[xzins]

This is a huge betrayal that will injure every other argument made by other parts of the Catholic Church.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The Diocese is Ft. Wayne/South Bend, the Bishop is Kevin Rhoades. He's the one who has the power (obligation) to revoke ND's right to call themselves Catholic.

Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades
915 South Clinton
P.O. Box 390
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46801

Phone: (260) 422-4611
Fax: (260) 969-9145

The form of organization is a corporation. Their relationship with with the CSC (Congregation of the Holy Cross) is labyrinthine and equivocal. They have a Board of Fellows which selects a Board of Trustees (only 5 out of 50, I read, are CSC) which vote on their own members/successors, making their governance --- as I understand it --- insular and self-perpetuating.

The President is Rev.John Jenkins, C.S.C., and his superior is:

Very Rev. Hugh W. Cleary, C.S.C.
Superior General
Congregation of Holy Cross
Via Framura, 85
00168 Rome, Italy

Or e-mail him: contact@holycrosscongregation.org

[Mad Dawg]

Thanks.