Hesburgh had doubts about the ban on birth control in the 1960s and apparently linked up with the Rockefeller Foundation, a nestbed of hysterical anti-Catholic Malthusian population control freaks. "Father" Hesburgh presided over Notre Dame's divorce from the Catholic faith and staged a conference on "modernizing" Catholic universities in 1967 at Land O'Lakes, Wisconsin. The result was to secularize Catholic universities and load them up with heretic dissenters and liberal anti-Catholics.
Obama actually mentioned Land O'Lakes, Wisconsin, alluding to an earlier meeting there on civil rights. But his speech writer must have known the connection and put that in there as code as well. You just NEVER - never - call Catholics "parochial" in any context. That is a traditional anti-Catholic slur and it was actually quite shocking to hear Obama use that term in his speech. It was an insulting comment and clearly directed at pro-life Catholics. As was Jenkins' and Obama's references to "demonizing" opponents in politics and moral debates. That Jenkins singled out pro-life activists as supposed demonizers was disgusting and a moral distortion.
The other disgusting part was Obama's canard about the boy with diabetes and stem cells. That any Notre Dame student cheered for this line was a damnable indictment of the education going on there. There is NO scientific evidence that embryonic stem cells will EVER cure diabetes. And there are plenty of distinguished medical researchers who will testify to that. That Obama used the ND commencement platform to push for embryonic stem cell research was Satanic and revolting.
I read a very interesting post - maybe it was yours? - about Hesburgh, the bishops and birth control. History has vindicated Paul VI in what was the one brave, defiant act of his papacy, since the Catholic acceptance of birth control is what has led to the collapse of the family, the decline of Europe, the resulting Muslim invasion and a host of other evils.
But at the time, the modernist bishops - not queens, but all hearty, hail-fellow-well-met types like Hesburgh - refused to support Humanae Vitae and this was the opening wedge. Once the average Catholic in the pew realized that you were permitted to pick what you wanted to support (because it was easiest for you, obviously) and what you didn't, based on the example of their bishops, all bets were off and the authority of the Pope and of the heirarchy, including the local diocesan bishop, collapsed.
HM-BA, thanks for the additional info on Hesburgh.
Seems he has been around a long time causing mischief.
These men of the cloth are charged with teaching the truth to the faithful. In Scripture, this is a holy obligation of any elder, or bishop.
Where I grew up, “parochial” meant the Catholic school rather then the public school. That’s how we distinguished between the two—as in “he goes to parochial school”. So, yes, it is a term pertaining to Catholics.
How the term was used—I would not have picked up on the connotation that you did, so thanks for the inside view on that.
This was a carefully crafted speech, full of code, meant to marginalize opponents and unpower them, by supposedly taking the higher, moral ground in the debate.
Obama mind control was in full tilt. With Obama, you have to mentally resist the sugary words to understand what he is really saying.