Posted on 05/17/2009 6:34:09 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
It was the usual appeal to moral relativism as the supposed higher ground. Then there was the very unfortune slur, the president's reference to "parochial" views. This is ALWAYS code for an anti-Catholic dig. Suggesting "parochial" views are in conflict with a higher ground of "universal" moral relativism.
Jenkins' hysterial speech praising Obama was disgraceful. One of the most disgraceful and shameful moments in Catholic intellectual history and the postconciliar period. It's clear Jenkins' is an hysterical supporter of Obama and shameless liberal. This was absurd from the Stockholm Syndrome valedictorian to the hysterical cheering for Obama.
One moment of great irony: As Obama started his spin on relativism for abortion you could hear a baby crying in the audience on the Fox News feed.
“I paid $120,000 for my kid to graduate and have to listen to this guy? talk about no respect!”
LOL, I was saying that same thing 2 yrs ago when I had to endure Bill Clinton speak at my daughter’s graduation! The crowd treated him with sickening adulation too.
So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church: Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
If anything, he's going to take ND's money. They have a $3 billion endowment.
;)
I’m an Episcopalian, so in a sense I have no business taking a stand on this issue, but I will tell you my heart ached for the Catholic Church today and my prayers are with all those who felt betrayed today.
Because they are, it's foolish topretend otherwise. The sheen hasn't worn off Obama yet. Some day it may.
These students voted for Obama in the same numbers as students of other religions and no religion. I'm convinced that Father Jenkins voted for him as well.
In the world we currently live in holding KSM's head underwater for 20 seconds to save thousands of innocent lives is a grave evil while tearing unborn babies limb from limb by the millions is a sacrament.
Maybe that will change but maybe not. I don't pretend to know.
It was a loud and very distinctive cry.
I suspect it made more than one person weep.
I know I did.
You’re really just displaying your own ignorance in the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
Is that what they're taught at Notre Dame, that Christ died on the cross so that they might get their little diplomas if they embrace a Barack 'Tiller' Obama baby killer. That place has obviously lost its SALT and needs a purging.
many of us have talked about this. it would be hard for a african american to not vote for the first african american president. I was ready myself for the first female or african american president. I knew we had to have a democratic president next because too much damage had been done to Bush. People were tired of republicans. Then knowing my party would lose I started looking at who obama was. At that point I never dreamed such a radical would ever win.
Too bad obama is not african american. African Americans will wake up with a arab president more than likely as time goes by and truth comes out. I would say arab american but we really do not know what nationality his mother is either. They have been duped big time.
Placemarker
WOW...that’s pretty amazing.
God bless the babe.
Apr 14, 2009 ... In an Ideas piece, Kmiec says some Catholics have bad attitudes about Obama’s Notre Dame invite.
May 6, 2009 ... In an Ideas piece, Kmiec says Specter deserves praise for his willingness to find workable solutions.
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March 23, 2008 9:18 AM | By Doug Kmiec
Today I endorse Barack Obama for president of the United States. I believe him to be a person of integrity, intelligence, and genuine good will. I take him at his word that he wants to move the nation beyond its religious and racial divides and that he wants to return the United States to that company of nations committed to human rights. I do not know if his earlier life experience is sufficient for the challenges of the presidency that lie ahead. I doubt we know this about any of the men or women we might select. It likely depends upon the serendipity of the events that cannot be foreseen. I do have confidence that the senator will cast his net widely in search of men and women of diverse, open-minded views and of superior intellectual qualities to assist him in the wide range of responsibilities that he must superintend.
This endorsement may be of little note or consequence, except perhaps that it comes from an unlikely source: namely, a former constitutional legal counsel to two Republican presidents. The endorsement will likely supply no strategic advantage equivalent to that represented by the very helpful accolades the senator has received from many of high stature and accomplishment, including most recently, from Gov. Bill Richardson. Nevertheless, it is important to be said publicly in a public forum in order that it be understood. It is not arrived at without careful thought and some difficulty.
In various ways, Sen. Barack Obama and I may disagree on aspects of these important fundamentals, but I am convinced, based upon his public pronouncements and his personal writing, that on each of these questions he is not closed to understanding opposing points of view and, as best as it is humanly possible, he will respect and accommodate them.
No doubt some of my friends will see this as a matter of party or intellectual treachery. I regret that, and I respect their disagreement. But they will readily agree that as Republicans, we are first Americans. As Americans, we must voice our concerns for the well-being of our nation without partisanship when decisions that have been made endanger the body politic. Our president has involved our nation in a military engagement without sufficient justification or a clear objective. In so doing, he has incurred both tragic loss of life and extraordinary debt jeopardizing the economy and the well-being of the average American citizen. In pursuit of these fatally flawed purposes, the office of the presidency, which it was once my privilege to defend in public office formally, has been distorted beyond its constitutional assignment. Today, I do no more than raise the defense of that important office anew, but as private citizen.
No, he essentially showed that the bishops are powerless. The Vatican II doofuses out there cheering him were the populist group he was appealing to (instead of the unions and blacks and his usual lefty groups). He has taken the Church away from the bishops because he gave this talk in blatant opposition to a ruling issued by the USCCB several years ago and in opposition to the immediate statements of the local ordinary of the diocese, Bp D’Arcy, and the Church authorities LET ND GO THROUGH WITH IT.
So tell me how that doesn’t mean he’s in charge now?
Far beyond your worst imaginings.
Steel on MTP this morning said Colin Powell AND Rush Limbaugh both should be in the big tent Republican Party, and each would have his supporters rally around different "tent poles." Can't quite figure that one out -- but, yes he needs to go if he tries to bring everyone together irrespective of their differing views on fundamental issues. (I sure miss Haley Barbour as chairman).
Douglas W. Kmiec is chair and professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine University. He is a former constitutional legal counsel to Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
Oh, you WERE referring to the billion Catholics as "them".
I was giving you the benefit of the doubt and presumed you were talking about The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as "them".
As I said before, I don't give a flying fig about bearing false witness against a billion Catholics. I worry about bearing false witness against God, The Father, God, The Son, and God, The Holy Spirit.
You don't think the Ninth Commandment pertains to Catholics do you? They, (you), weren't even around then.
“Obama invoked both crackpot modernists, Hesburgh and Bernardin for his version of “seamless garment” liberation theology, minus the sanctity of life.
It was the usual appeal to moral relativism as the supposed higher ground. Then there was the very unfortune slur, the president’s reference to “parochial” views. This is ALWAYS code for an anti-Catholic dig. Suggesting “parochial” views are in conflict with a higher ground of “universal” moral relativism.
Jenkins’ hysterial speech praising Obama was disgraceful. One of the most disgraceful and shameful moments in Catholic intellectual history and the postconciliar period. It’s clear Jenkins’ is an hysterical supporter of Obama and shameless liberal. This was absurd from the Stockholm Syndrome valedictorian to the hysterical cheering for Obama.
One moment of great irony: As Obama started his spin on relativism for abortion you could hear a baby crying in the audience on the Fox News feed.”
Very well said.
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