I’m assuming you are referring, among other things, to Kathleen Sibelius speaking at Georgetown. This in many ways is even more alarming than Obama speaking at Notre Dame because Sibelius calls herself a Catholic and yet promotes contraception and abortion constantly. She was a great supporter of the late George Tiller, who was the most notorius practitioner of partial birth abortion.
I agree that this is very alarming, but I see a silver lining in these kinds of situations. It is the same as when the healthcare mandate came down saying Catholic institutions have to provide contraception to their employees. This is a huge wake up call to the evil that has invaded our country and even our Church and the fact that Catholics must stand up to it. We cannot just go on living our lives and pretending everything is going to work out. We need to do something. The Bishops have really woken up to this fact, and I, for one, could not be happier. Millions of souls are at stake, and we will be responsible if we don’t at least try to do something to save them.
I attend a Sunday Mass where one of our main celebrants is a Jesuit and a graduate of Georgetown. He says that his hope is that Cardinal Wuerl will call for an interdiction of Georgetown, which would mean the banning of all Masses and Sacraments at Georgetown because they are in direct violation of the Church. I can’t think of any greater wake-up call than that.
