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FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, May 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two days before leading in prayer a handful of University of Notre Dame graduates protesting President Obama's commencement speech, Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life delivered a rousing pro-life homily at the baccalaureate Mass of Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. Fr. Pavone remarked on the nature of abortion, which he called "the opposite of love," and President Obama, whom he said has dishonored the presidency by supporting abortion.
Fr. Pavone introduced the question of the meaning of love with a meditation on Christ's statements, "Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends," and "I have power to lay it [my life] down, and I have power to take it up again."
The "power to lay down one's life," said Pavone, is "the power of love, the power to be able to give yourself away purposely, deliberately, knowing what you're going to lose ... because you're not focused anymore on what you're losing, you're focused on what you're giving to the other."
"This is the heart and core of the civilization of love, of the culture of life, of the meaning of being pro-life, of the meaning of social justice, and of the very meaning of service, all summed up in this power to lay our lives down for the other," he said.
"In the culture of death, we see exactly the opposite dynamic."
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THANK YOU ALL FOR WHAT YOU HAVE TRIED TO PREVENT:
The greatest scandal that has befallen our Catholic Church here in America--A Catholic University, who bears Jesus Christ's Most Holy Mother's name-- has given not only a platform but also an honorary degree in Law to the highest elected official in our beloved United States of America
despite The Apostolic Constitution of The Supreme Pontiff John Paul II on Catholic Universities
despite The Catechism of The Catholic Church teachings in regards to giving scandal (#2284-2287)
despite The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' demand that no Catholic institution should honor anyone who promotes, participates or legislates the killing of unborn children
despite the heroic efforts of the Cardinal Newman Society who gathered and presented over 363,000 signed petitions to withdraw this invitation and platform
despite the refusal of Mary Ann Glendon, who counseled our bishops and was Ambassador the the Vatican, to accept Notre Dames Laetare Award
despite 83 American bishops who pleaded and then condemned this abomination
despite the hue and cry of alumni who are withdrawing their support and millions of dollars
despite the pleas from students for rosaries to be said to stop this abomination
and despite the heroic efforts of Randall Terry, Alan Keyes and so many pro-life activists on the street, on the internet, and in and on the air
despite the warnings of the grave scandal to our Faith and the Faithful on May 8th by Archbishop Raymond Burke, Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Louis and Vatican Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura who addressed The National Catholic Breakfast in Washington with these words:
"Our uncompromising commitment to protect the inviolable dignity of innocent human life and to safeguard the integrity of marriage and the family are not based on peculiar confessional beliefs or practices but on the natural moral law, written on every heart and, therefore, a fundamental part of the Church's moral teaching.
At the same time, what is always and everywhere evil cannot be called good for the sake of accomplishing some other good end.
All of us must be concerned about a wide range of goods which are important to the life of our nation, but the concern for those goods can never justify the betrayal of the fundamental goods of life itself and the family.
We must take care to uproot from our moral thinking any form of relativism, consequentialism and proportionalism, which would lead us into the error of thinking that it is sometimes right to do what is always and everywhere evil."
Barack Obama is
A President who adamantly and unapologetically supports, enables and funds The Culture of Death.
A President who claims that defining when human life begins is above his pay grade.
A President who claims children are a punishment not a gift from God.
A President who has promised Planned Parenthood that he will support The Freedom of Choice Act which will overturn any states laws that in effect have reduced the number of abortions.
A President who calls his vote in the Senate designed to save the life of disabled Terri Schindler Schiavo from court ordered death by intentional starvation and dehydration a mistake.
A President who now wants to deny medical personnel and pharmacists their rights to conscientiously object in participating in his Culture of Death vision.
A President who uses our money as taxpayers to fund abortionists for the intentional continued depopulation of our brothers and sisters overseas.
A President who uses our money to fund unnecessary and cannibalistic embryonic research while adult stem cell research is ethical and proving in over 70 instances to help or cure various diseases.
A President who declares that waterboarding terrorists is torture yet supports the most egregious and cruel methods of torture for God's most defenseless children in their mothers wombs.
A President who even denies fully born children of botched abortions their rights to comfort and care by other medical personnel after the abortionist does his dastardly deed. . .
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience.
The White Rose will give you no rest."