Posted on 03/25/2016 7:26:48 AM PDT by marshmallow
SOUTH BEND, Indiana, March 23, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - Notre Dame's president has taken aim at critics of the university's latest departure, from Catholic identity, and revived his defense of the school's much-criticized decision in 2009 to honor pro-abortion Barack Obama.
Holy Cross Father John Jenkins inferred opponents of the University's impending honoring of pro-abortion and homosexual "marriage" advocate Vice President Joe Biden were antagonistic, demeaning, and uncompromising. Those critics include his own local bishop in Fort Wayne-South Bend.
"One of our great challenges today is that people who disagree often will vilify, will attack, will demean the opposition, and then they can't work with the opposition," Father Jenkins said. "So we come to this impasse of acrimony, of intransigence, and it doesn't serve society."
The priest was asked in an interview about "open gestures of dialogue" behind the choice of Biden and former House Speaker John Boehner, announced March 5, as the University's 2016 Laetare medalists, a report from Notre Dame News said.
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Notre Dame has been a “Catholic” bastion of liberal rational for decades.
Jenkins is a sorry excuse for a priest and a Catholic.
He exemplifies the corruption of many clergy in the Catholic Church which unfortunately seems to be rampant among its highest officials.
The kind of disgraceful action I expect from Notre Shame.
“antagonistic, demeaning, and uncompromising.”
Hey John, lucky for you Satan is none of those.
the litmus test, proof of liberal thought hinges on abortion, the offering up of the innocents for the sake of convenience, made even more clear by the sale of “fetal tissue”.
Dear “Father,”
you’re DAM8ed well we’re intransigent!
you’re corrupting our children.... exactly the opposite of why anyone would wish to send their kids to ND
ps:
did they teach you Scripture in seminary?
“Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.” Js 3:1
So many in the Catholic Church pay lip service to the pro-life movement. Jenkins is one of them and they are the reason the fight against abortion has gone on so long.
By honoring dissenting “Catholic” in name only politicians like Obama and Biden, it is President Fr. Jenkins who is being intransigent and slapping the face of faithful Catholics.
Interesting, he says this as a defense of celebrating some of the worst offenders? Father John Jenkins, your faith? I don't think it means what you think it means.
Funny how right before he says, this; "people who disagree often will vilify, will attack, will demean the opposition"
he vilifies those who disagree with or challenge him; "[opponents]...were antagonistic, demeaning, and uncompromising."
p.s. shouldn't religion BE uncompromising?
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