“This is a highly cynical act, contemptuous of the Church’s prophetic voice in civil society and wagering that there will be no retribution. If a midwestern school seeks attention by granting Mr. Obama an honorary doctorate in law, the next logical step would be to grant Judas Iscariot posthumously an honorary doctorate in business administration.” [reference]
It will be interesting to see what Bishop D’Arcy says since it is reported he will be releasing a statement this morning. In the past he was highly critical of Notre Dame’s production of the Vagina Monologues so I would be greatly surprised to see something other than a rebuke charitably made.
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THE PLAN
A. Back off and let those men who want to marry men, marry men.
B. Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women.
C. Allow those folks who want to abort their babies, abort their babies.
D. In three generations, there will be no Democrats.
Damn! I love it when a plan comes together.
My favorite is when Fr. Jenkins asserts: “We are not ignoring the critical issue of the protection of life,” Jenkins told campus paper. “On the contrary, we invited him, because we care so much about those issues, and we hope … for this to be the basis of an engagement with him.”
I guess engagement = providing a platform for the opposition. Doesn’t make sense to me but I am just a lowly pew warming Catholic not a lofty president of a once proud catholic institution.
It is becoming the hallmark of the modern Jesuit education: The marked inability to distinguish diamonds from rhinestones, lest the rhinestones feel defamed.
No T. Shaw –
You forgot E.
E.) At the same time the LORD rained down sulphurous fire upon both Democrats and Republicans (from the LORD out of heaven).
He overthrew their parties and the whole of the Great Plains, Left and Right Coasts together he overthrew them with the inhabitants, sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit batsof the cities and the produce of the soil. (Extremely Amplified Version)
So no – unless you got happen to have Borg Cube handy its gonna be a real crappy day for all – Libertarians too.
Jeff:
Let me focus your quote & comment:
“Jenkins made clear the University is not honouring the president for his stances on these issues, but for his leadership”. Your note: “Giving an honorary degree is not honouring someone – what?”
Now: the key words are: HONOURS, PRIDE, and OBEDIENCE.
Here we have a most clear disobedience to Rome’s command towards all Catholic Colleges, for one billion Catholics in the world, less than 4 % in USA (mostly Cafetería).
So, the local bishop’s D’Arcy “has personally established the validity of conscientious non-attendance”… this, with the ominous silence from the US Nuncio in DC, are blatantly and defiantly negligent, AND GUILTY, directly.
They SHOULD BE DEMANDED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY, on this anew scandalous slap in the face to the Pope.
Jenkins is a prideful cleric in NO POSITION OR AUTHORITY TO DISOBEY ROME, whatever his inflated-ego-fatuous reasons are.
From my world Catholic view, my fellow sisters & brothers in USA are committing a terrible mistake in giving Jenkins authority to defy the Pope and… NOT TO ASK A NEW NUNCIO from Rome to: establish order in Notre Dame, Georgetown (building to pro-abortion Fr. Drinan, and so on).
Cordially