Catholicity Wall to Wall Notre Dame Scandal Coverage
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If we only had more gadflies like this. I hope he stings a few right in the heart.
Praying and counseling work better.
From Baal to Obama.
Killing babies has become a religious ritual for ritual.
Freedom of choice begins BEFORE conception, NOT after it.
The graduates at NDU have created a spiritual, dignified, and effective protest to the school’s feting of Obama. Randall Terry’s entrance turns all into his personal sideshow. Let Terry stay home and let the students of the School of Our Lady develop their own, more effective, actions than Terry’s “Hey I’m here arrest me!” carnival.
Thank God for the Randall Terry’s who made a big stink about killing babies. They might have been the ones who have kept the mercy of God at hand and held back His judgment.
RANDALL TERRY LECTURES BISHOP D’ARCY
April 15, 2009
Catholic League president Bill Donohue issued the following remarks on a column by pro-life activist Randall Terry that appeared in yesterday’s Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:
“Three weeks ago, Archbishop Raymond Burke, the former St. Louis archbishop who is now working in the Vatican, publicly chastised Randall Terry for misrepresenting a meeting they had in Rome. Now Terry has stepped in it again, this time having the gall to lecture Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop John D’Arcy for not contacting him before he called on Catholics not to demonstrate at this year’s Commencement at Notre Dame; President Barack Obama will be given an honorary degree, something which D’Arcy strongly opposes. For some bizarre reason, Terry thinks Bishop D’Arcy should have checked in with him before he made his prudent decision.
“Terry doesn’t know when to quit. This quote is a gem: ‘D’Arcy has stepped far beyond his canonical authority by urging the faithful to abandon the babies—and thereby abandon Christ—and to honor Obama and Jenkins [the Notre Dame president] with our silent cooperation.’ This is arrogance on stilts: Terry just became a Catholic in 2005 and now he is an authority on canon law. Worse, he accuses Bishop D’Arcy, who is strongly pro-life, of abandoning babies and Christ.
“The problem with pro-life zealots is that they expect everyone to line up single file and do exactly what they want. Thus do they play to the worst stereotype floated by the pro-abortion camp. Terry needs to take a deep breath and get off his high horse.”
There is always room for a full spectrum of protest, short of violence or lawbreaking.
Terry did NOT break the law.
WHY was Terry banned from “trespassing” on campus? I thought that university campuses are generally supposed to be venues for free speech. And although it is a private university, the public is normally welcome to walk around the campus.
Apparently it’s OK to demonstrate for GLBT issues at Notre Dame, but it’s not allowable to demonstrate for LIFE. It’s OK to stage the Vagina Monologues on campus, but it’s not allowed to speak to students about the evils of abortion.
No doubt the sight of bloody babies is a gruesome one, but just who is it who is killing these babies? It’s not Randall Terry. It’s Barack Hussein Obama.
A truckfull of dead baby dolls would be a nice way to drive throuigh the campus just b4 zero shows up.
If his antics save one innocent life, the trespass of private property is justified.
Shame on Jenkins.
They beheaded John the Baptist for pointing out the sins of public officials.
What Terry did was peaceful protest, non-violent disagreement that has brought notice to his cause.
It is a horrible shame that Obama is going to Notre Dame. It was a shame that he made Georgetown cover up the symbol of Christ and it was a greater shame that they complied. It was the first time in the history of America that a President covered up a symbol of Christianity before speaking in front of it.
I cannot condemn Terry for these things but I can condemn Notre Dame.
Abortion is a violent, destructive act, wrong on so many levels but for those who believe in eternal life it is an abomination, an affront to God, and an arrogant violation of natural law handed down to Moses on Mt Sinai.
Obama seeks to make it worse.
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