I wish we had a college like that in the Central Valley.
(excerpted from this well written observation by Jeff Crouere, HERE)
"The day that the University of Notre Dame invited President Obama to speak at their commencement ceremony was the day the school sacrificed their Catholic identity. The school has been known as the premier Catholic institution in the country. For decades, Catholics from around the nation have sent their children to Notre Dame and supported the school with generous donations. Today, Notre Dame is no longer worthy of such support. It has abandoned Catholic teaching to curry favor with the new presidential administration.
Notre Dame invited the most pro-abortion President in our nation’s history to speak to graduating seniors. Obama has a 100% pro-choice voting record and issued an executive order upon taking office to allow federal funding for international organizations that perform abortions. His move should not have surprised anyone for as an Illinois State Senator Obama opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which would require hospitals to provide emergency treatment to infants who survive an abortion. On numerous occasions, Obama worked to defeat this humane bill, which subjected children born alive to certain death.
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The Obama invitation will be a very expensive one indeed for Notre Dame for the school will not only lose donations, it will lose support. By ignoring Catholic teaching and clear mandates, its very identity should be questioned. If it does not follow the Catholic Church, what does Notre Dame follow, President Obama?
Fortunately, a few students disagreed with the honor bestowed upon President Obama. About 50 seniors and hundreds of their friends and family held a prayer vigil while the graduation ceremony was taking place. While the radical pro-abortion President Obama was honored, peaceful pro-life protestors praying the rosary were arrested. Such treatment was uncalled for and showed the school’s utter disregard for the participants of the respectful rally. Among those arrested were an 80-year old priest and other elderly demonstrators.
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There is absolutely no excuse for what happened at Notre Dame. It was an atrocity that will not soon be forgotten by millions of Catholics and former supporters of the university. By choosing prestige over principle, Notre Dame has become just another in a long line of Obama sycophants, joining Hollywood, the mainstream media and other liberal universities across the nation.
At this point, Notre Dame is no longer unique; it is just like any other liberal university, staffed by liberal faculty members and administrators, who work together to produce a liberal, cafeteria Catholic student body of Obama groupies."