Amb. Keyes arrested at Notre Dame

[Traditional_Ang]

Rach, I understand your desire to keep the campus of your beloved University from being turned into a freak side show. But to others who are more bold, loud, and risky in their actions, the response of the campus may seem to them quiet, passive and safe. I believe that both are expressions of the love of God expressed in the unique way of the person/s expressing this message. Would I have strolled thorugh with a bloody baby carriage … um NO. I personally am more in line with the beautiful and prayerful way of the college students. But this is not something that affects only the students. This will have an impact on the future of ALL Catholic institutions, and because of the scandal invited by Fr. Jenkins, it has reached BEYOND the students there. It makes sense that the responses will be varied and unique as that is how God has made us. Different, yet complementary as we who are fighting for the unborn are all expressing the same thing, only in different ways. Some ways may be more pleasing to one, as other ways may be more pleasing to the other.

Though the campus may be able to establish some control over its students, because of the unity and common ground, as for people off campus the response will be more varied and less able to be controlled. I commend the students there, I am proud to be Catholic and when I see the beautiful prayerful response of students like you, I am filled with hope for our future. Thank you for the info, I am seriously and prayerfully considering attending on the 17th to stand with the current students of Notre Dame, and perhaps at least one future student. My 11 yr old boy has wanted to attend Notre Dame (and play football) since he could talk. It hurts me that perhaps this beautiful and historical Catholic Institution may not be an option for him in the future.

Ana:

I’m sorry that your son won’t be able to attend Notre Dame, and it scandal those who run ND have brought on the University and ON THE CHURCH cries out for more than a “quiet, prayerful response”. Yes, I would have pushed a baby carriage across the campus with Amb. Alan Keyes if I could have. and, I just looked at a picture of the “Carriage”, it doesn’t look like a “spongebob”…
Alan Keyes arrested protesting Abortion at Notre Dame

On another note, what if the students who were due to graduate went with signs around their neck saying “ABORTED (year they should have been born)” and simply stayed SEATED & SILENT during THE ENTIRE CEREMONY, esp. President Obama’s Presentation?!? Or, Sent surrogates they could trust to do this? For this to work, the student (or surrogate) would have to stand stand when his or her name was called and say, “Sorry, I cannot come forward, I did not graduate, because I WAS ABORTED!” AND THEN STAY STANDING, STILL WEARING THE PLAQUE!

By the end of the ceremony, there would be 350-400 students STANDING wearing placards saying “ABORTED (year)”. This just might give President Obama, and those others who are Pro-Abortion in the crowd, a reason to rethink their position…

Remember, What you do you do not only for yourselves but for those who come after and for those who look on.

Your Brother and Servant in Christ, Michael

 

[Little_Dove]

Interesting. The anti-abortion protester arrested, the pro-abortion advocate honored…at Our Lady School…

Yes…it truly just breaks my heart. And it must be breaking the heart of the Immaculate Virgin.
Which Bishop said, "Why don’t you just change the name to the “Fighting Irish?” instead of so rending the Heart of Mary?
God Bless!
To Jesus, through Mary

 

[Insight]

You’re fining in blanks I didn’t want to fill in. but, If these are true, Notre Dame is allowing itself to be used as a platform for nothing less than genocide, and the disruptive protests so many have decried are more than warranted.

Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, who considered abortion a tool for reducing undesirable ethnic groups.

blackgenocide.org/negro.html

renewamerica.us/columns/childress/080315

acts1711.com/sanger.htm

jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Abortion%20is%20Murder/mass_murderer_margaret_sanger.htm

jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Abortion%20is%20Murder/truth_about_margaret_sanger.htm

freerepublic.com/focus/fr/612636/posts

margaretsanger.blogspot.com/2005/03/kkk-to-open-urban-family-planning.html

nyu.edu/projects/sanger/secure/newsletter/articles/bc_or_race_control.html

blackstudentsforlife.com/id5.html

God Bless

 

[Traditional_Ang]

Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, who considered abortion a tool for reducing undesirable ethnic groups.

blackgenocide.org/negro.html

renewamerica.us/columns/childress/080315

acts1711.com/sanger.htm

jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Abortion%20is%20Murder/mass_murderer_margaret_sanger.htm

jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Abortion%20is%20Murder/truth_about_margaret_sanger.htm

freerepublic.com/focus/fr/612636/posts

margaretsanger.blogspot.com/2005/03/kkk-to-open-urban-family-planning.html

nyu.edu/projects/sanger/secure/newsletter/articles/bc_or_race_control.html

blackstudentsforlife.com/id5.html

God Bless

Insight:

I know about the history of Margaret Sanger and her desire to use “Birth Control” & selective breeding (Eugenics) to eliminate people who were poor, racially undesirable and those groups otherwise (mentally, physically & psychologically) unfit to compete in modern society. I had naively hoped that President Obama & his Administration weren’t onboard for this hellish program, and that they were just a bunch of stupid puppets being manipulated by people whose money and influence they needed to gt into power.

But, If what you are saying is true, and Obama and the rest of his Administrations aren’t just stupid puppets, but willing Participants and Co-conspirators, then some form of PROTEST IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL. As the Media is sure to distort & mischaracterize any NORMAL protests carried out with bullhorns, signs and speakers, I urge the SILENT PROTEST I described a few posts back. This has the advantage of DECORUM (the Media can’t say, “The Protest was disruptive,” without being obvious liars). It also has the advantage of involving and being led by the Students. and, There’s NO WAY the President & ND Administration wouldn’t see it.

And, I’m sure that I underestimated the number of students who’d want to participate. What if, out of a class of 7,000, President Obama looked and saw 2,000 students standing at attention with signs saying “ABORTED (year)”? Something like this would be esp. powerful if it were done at a BLACK UNIVERSITY when that University honored a Pro-Abortion Politician or an Abortionist…

The trick would be to get the students to do it.

Your Brother & Servant in Christ, Michael

 

[Rach620]

You’re fining in blanks I didn’t want to fill in. but, If these are true, Notre Dame is allowing itself to be used as a platform for nothing less than genocide, and the disruptive protests so many have decried are more than warranted.

This is a situation where the Catholic Bishops need to put their lives and reputations on the line if they really mean it - They need not only to stop saying “No Demonstrations”, but to LEAD the demonstrations.

Their is a Spiritual Battle to be fought, and it must be fought as if it’s the only battle by the Church. Masses, 40 Hours Adoration, Rosaries, Processions around this Now Uncatholic University. Except for the Processions around the Uncatholic University, and some form of an EXORCISM, almost all of this NEEDS to be conducted by those who are NOT at Notre Dame. But, for this to mean something to President Obama, the University and the MEDIA, DIRECT ACTION needs to be taken by people AT THE UNIVERSITY.

There is a Playbook for these things - I wish Randall Terry and Ambassador Kayes had followed it. and, I also wish Bishop D’Arcy would “take the gloves off” and organize and lead a LARGE ON CAMPUS PROTEST that included prayer, but also included speakers (Bishop Chaput, Fr. Corapi, Fr. Pavone, Ambassador Kayes, Dr. Alveda King - Even Archbishop Hepworth of the TAC), before, during and after the Commencement. Use Facebook, and every other available means, to draw Pro-Lifers from as far away as possible. and, if Notre Dame wants to have them all arrested, that’s better still… Let them arrest every Bishop & Archbishop who can make it…

Exactly the kind of protest you’re recommending WILL BE TAKING PLACE ON CAMPUS THIS WEEKEND. Bishop D’Arcy, among others, will be in attendance.

Visit NDResponse.com for more information.

THE SCHEDULE

9:30PM May 16 - 10:45AM May 17
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in Alumni Hall Chapel
Bishop D’Arcy will be present for the Exposition at 9:30pm

Day of Commencement
11:15AM
Mass on South Quad for Travelers

12:30PM
Rally for Life featuring:

• Rev. John J. Raphael, SSJ; ND ’89, Principal of St. Augustine High School in New Orleans, LA.
• Elizabeth Naquin Borger; ND ’78, Former Chairman of the Board of the Women’s Care Center.
• Dr. David Solomon; Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Notre Dame; W.P. and H.B. White Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture; Chair of the steering committee for the Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life.
• Rev. Wilson Miscamble, CSC; ND ’77 (M.A.), ’80 (Ph.D.), ’87 (M.Div.), Professor of History at University of Notre Dame.
• Lacy Dodd, ND ’99; Room at the Inn, Board of Directors, Charlotte, NC.
• Chris Godfrey, ND Law ’93; Life Athletes (Founder and President), starting offensive guard for Super Bowl XXI Champion New York Giants.

2pm
Class of 2009 Vigil for Life in the Grotto
Scriptural Rosary led by Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life

3:45pm
Final Blessing and Dismissal of Travelers

 

[Bennie_P]

Insight:

I know about the history of Margaret Sanger and her desire to use “Birth Control” & selective breeding (Eugenics) to eliminate people who were poor, racially undesirable and those groups otherwise (mentally, physically & psychologically) unfit to compete in modern society. I had naively hoped that President Obama & his Administration weren’t onboard for this hellish program, and that they were just a bunch of stupid puppets being manipulated by people whose money and influence they needed to gt into power.

But, If what you are saying is true, and Obama and the rest of his Administrations aren’t just stupid puppets, but willing Participants and Co-conspirators, then some form of PROTEST IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL. As the Media is sure to distort & mischaracterize any NORMAL protests carried out with bullhorns, signs and speakers, I urge the SILENT PROTEST I described a few posts back. This has the advantage of DECORUM (the Media can’t say, “The Protest was disruptive,” without being obvious liars). It also has the advantage of involving and being led by the Students. and, There’s NO WAY the President & ND Administration wouldn’t see it.

And, I’m sure that I underestimated the number of students who’d want to participate. What if, out of a class of 7,000, President Obama looked and saw 2,000 students standing at attention with signs saying “ABORTED (year)”? Something like this would be esp. powerful if it were done at a BLACK UNIVERSITY when that University honored a Pro-Abortion Politician or an Abortionist…

The trick would be to get the students to do it.

Your Brother & Servant in Christ, Michael

The media is pro-Abort and will either disregard peaceful protest all together or make sure they get some some pro-abort give thier view, have you notice the media always call pro-lifers pro-abotionist? And I mean always.

What is needed is to bring the horror of abortion to light and often, when the truth is spoken it brings the pro-aborts to thier true selves, Hateful and mean spirited. If you think you can manipulate the media with soft spokeness to support the pro-life cause all the public will hear is a whisper. The use of visuals is must without the use of violence. the visuals are evidence of the violence “pro-choice” represents. We cannot let the media call use the violent ones for using the visuals, for the visuals belong to the pro-aborts 100% and no one is going to know it if the visuals are hidden from the public.

Call murder murder, call it murder often. Call murderers murderers, don’t use thier terminolgy, they use the terms anti-abortion and pro-choice. Each and every time we open our minds we must use the terms pro-abortion and pro-life. Obama is not stupid, he and many others believe that eugenics lies, he thinks we can breed a better world and he is ashamed of poor blacks and only uses them for thier votes, but, like so many they think they are above the distruction of thier race and they will be part of the brave new world in which he and liberals want to build. We need to say it, we stand for life and the only choice being made is between to murder a child or let her have life.

The reason the left won the war of opinion in the 60s was the good people sat back standing silent… hoping it all would go away… now those students and leftist radicals of and from the 60s are in control…

 

[Archie]

" now those students and leftist radicals of and from the 60s are in control"

Now those who oppose abortion are “right wing extremists” and “potential domestic terrorists.”

This from the Department of Homeland Security’s “Domestic Extremism Lexicon”

http://video1.washingtontimes.com/video/lexicon.pdf

(U) rightwing
extremism

(U//FOUO) A movement of rightwing groups or individuals
who can be broadly divided into those who are primarily
hate-oriented, and those who are mainly antigovernment and
reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.
This term also may refer to rightwing extremist movements
that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to
abortion or immigration.
(also known as far right, extreme right)

 

[Insight]

Insight: I know about the history of Margaret Sanger and her desire to use “Birth Control” & selective breeding (Eugenics) to eliminate people who were poor, racially undesirable and those groups otherwise (mentally, physically & psychologically) unfit to compete in modern society. I had naively hoped that President Obama & his Administration weren’t onboard for this hellish program, and that they were just a bunch of stupid puppets being manipulated by people whose money and influence they needed to get into power.

But, If what you are saying is true, and Obama and the rest of his Administrations aren’t just stupid puppets, but willing Participants and Co-conspirators, then some form of PROTEST IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL. As the Media is sure to distort & mischaracterize any NORMAL protests carried out with bullhorns, signs and speakers, I urge the SILENT PROTEST I described a few posts back. This has the advantage of DECORUM (the Media can’t say, “The Protest was disruptive,” without being obvious liars). It also has the advantage of involving and being led by the Students. and, There’s NO WAY the President & ND Administration wouldn’t see it.

And, I’m sure that I underestimated the number of students who’d want to participate. What if, out of a class of 7,000, President Obama looked and saw 2,000 students standing at attention with signs saying “ABORTED (year)”? Something like this would be esp. powerful if it were done at a BLACK UNIVERSITY when that University honored a Pro-Abortion Politician or an Abortionist…

The trick would be to get the students to do it.

Your Brother & Servant in Christ, Michael

I hope there will be a high student involvement. I’m in NY, I have two friends who are flying to Notre Dame to protest. I have work and a family, they are single, I wish I could go, but I will not be able to. They emailed me docs with the slogans on all the signs they made up.

God Bless

 

[elts1956]

Insight:

You’re fining in blanks I didn’t want to fill in. but, If these are true, Notre Dame is allowing itself to be used as a platform for nothing less than genocide, and the disruptive protests so many have decried are more than warranted.

This is a situation where the Catholic Bishops need to put their lives and reputations on the line if they really mean it - They need not only to stop saying “No Demonstrations”, but to LEAD the demonstrations.

Their is a Spiritual Battle to be fought, and it must be fought as if it’s the only battle by the Church. Masses, 40 Hours Adoration, Rosaries, Processions around this Now Uncatholic University. Except for the Processions around the Uncatholic University, and some form of an EXORCISM, almost all of this NEEDS to be conducted by those who are NOT at Notre Dame. But, for this to mean something to President Obama, the University and the MEDIA, DIRECT ACTION needs to be taken by people AT THE UNIVERSITY.

There is a Playbook for these things - I wish Randall Terry and Ambassador Kayes had followed it. and, I also wish Bishop D’Arcy would “take the gloves off” and organize and lead a LARGE ON CAMPUS PROTEST that included prayer, but also included speakers (Bishop Chaput, Fr. Corapi, Fr. Pavone, Ambassador Kayes, Dr. Alveda King - Even Archbishop Hepworth of the TAC), before, during and after the Commencement. Use Facebook, and every other available means, to draw Pro-Lifers from as far away as possible. and, if Notre Dame wants to have them all arrested, that’s better still… Let them arrest every Bishop & Archbishop who can make it…

I can’t help but thinking that if the Catholics (and other Christians) in Europe would have yelled, “Bloody Murder!” when Hitler murdered the head of Catholic Action and then forced the Nazis the imprison them, the regime would have fallen just from being deligitimized at the start. I’m sure a few hundred Catholics would have died, but the 16 million who died in the Holocaust, and the 40 million who died in the European Theater during WW II wouldn’t have died!

During Vietnam, President Johnson tried something called “Measured Escalation” where he tried to limit our involvement & our response. It failed miserably, and we lost. We’ve tried the same thing with the people who run Notre Dame, and I’m fairly sure this hasn’t got through to them. I’m sure that, if those who run Notre Dame were hit with a sustained full spectrum Political and P.R. Campaign, they’d think twice, because it would really hurt recruitment and fundraising.

Eventually, we have to decide if we are willing to risk our reputations, and that of Notre Dame, on this type of sustained campaign. Remember, the other side has waged and is already waging this type of campaign…

Your Brother and Servant in Christ, Michael

Wrong, or right, NDU has stated in its by laws there will be no public demonstrations that are not approved by the administration. If any group were to demonstrate without this approval, guess where they would get to spend at least the night. Now this wouldn’t be a bad thing, but as I have said before, the Pro Life students at NDU have placed this event in the hands of Our Lady. Which do you think would be the better supporter of this occaision, loud raucous demonstrators, or the Mother of us all?

 

[elts1956]

Insight:

You’re fining in blanks I didn’t want to fill in. but, If these are true, Notre Dame is allowing itself to be used as a platform for nothing less than genocide, and the disruptive protests so many have decried are more than warranted.

This is a situation where the Catholic Bishops need to put their lives and reputations on the line if they really mean it - They need not only to stop saying “No Demonstrations”, but to LEAD the demonstrations.

Their is a Spiritual Battle to be fought, and it must be fought as if it’s the only battle by the Church. Masses, 40 Hours Adoration, Rosaries, Processions around this Now Uncatholic University. Except for the Processions around the Uncatholic University, and some form of an EXORCISM, almost all of this NEEDS to be conducted by those who are NOT at Notre Dame. But, for this to mean something to President Obama, the University and the MEDIA, DIRECT ACTION needs to be taken by people AT THE UNIVERSITY.

There is a Playbook for these things - I wish Randall Terry and Ambassador Kayes had followed it. and, I also wish Bishop D’Arcy would “take the gloves off” and organize and lead a LARGE ON CAMPUS PROTEST that included prayer, but also included speakers (Bishop Chaput, Fr. Corapi, Fr. Pavone, Ambassador Kayes, Dr. Alveda King - Even Archbishop Hepworth of the TAC), before, during and after the Commencement. Use Facebook, and every other available means, to draw Pro-Lifers from as far away as possible. and, if Notre Dame wants to have them all arrested, that’s better still… Let them arrest every Bishop & Archbishop who can make it…

I can’t help but thinking that if the Catholics (and other Christians) in Europe would have yelled, “Bloody Murder!” when Hitler murdered the head of Catholic Action and then forced the Nazis the imprison them, the regime would have fallen just from being deligitimized at the start. I’m sure a few hundred Catholics would have died, but the 16 million who died in the Holocaust, and the 40 million who died in the European Theater during WW II wouldn’t have died!

During Vietnam, President Johnson tried something called “Measured Escalation” where he tried to limit our involvement & our response. It failed miserably, and we lost. We’ve tried the same thing with the people who run Notre Dame, and I’m fairly sure this hasn’t got through to them. I’m sure that, if those who run Notre Dame were hit with a sustained full spectrum Political and P.R. Campaign, they’d think twice, because it would really hurt recruitment and fundraising.

Eventually, we have to decide if we are willing to risk our reputations, and that of Notre Dame, on this type of sustained campaign. Remember, the other side has waged and is already waging this type of campaign…

Your Brother and Servant in Christ, Michael

I hope there will be a high student involvement. I’m in NY, I have two friends who are flying to Notre Dame to protest. I have work and a family, they are single, I wish I could go, but I will not be able to. They emailed me docs with the slogans on all the signs they made up.

God Bless

I’m not sure they will be allowed to enter the campus with signs. I think the student Pro Life body has prohibited signs of ANY kind. BLAST bo. He is the one continuing this ruckus. I think he is absolutely enjoying himself. mo too.

 

[bobzills]

Wrong, or right, NDU has stated in its by laws there will be no public demonstrations that are not approved by the administration. If any group were to demonstrate without this approval, guess where they would get to spend at least the night. Now this wouldn’t be a bad thing, but as I have said before, the Pro Life students at NDU have placed this event in the hands of Our Lady. Which do you think would be the better supporter of this occaision, loud raucous demonstrators, or the Mother of us all?

I saw the video and Mr. Keyes was not that loud. They were just saying prayers. In any event, you have to obey the rules set down by the university. Of course, the university takes tax payer money so if these rules were too harsh they can be challenged in a Court of law.

 

[elts1956]

I saw the video and Mr. Keyes was not that loud. They were just saying prayers. In any event, you have to obey the rules set down by the university. Of course, the university takes tax payer money so if these rules were too harsh they can be challenged in a Court of law.

Wasn’t talking especially about Mr. Keyes. But if he had entered the campus with only a rosary in his hand, I don’t think anyone would have disapproved. Who was he trying to make the display to? He did what he wanted to do, he got attention. Now that is probably not a bad thing, but I don’t think ANY Pro Life group should run roughshod over the wishes of the Pro Life Graduates on May 17th for low key, dignified protests by going to the Mass celebrated on campus by Bishop D’Arcy and the several Rosary groups that will be praying at various locations on campus. These have all been approved by the administration.

 

[Insight]

I’m not sure they will be allowed to enter the campus with signs. I think the student Pro Life body has prohibited signs of ANY kind. BLAST bo. He is the one continuing this ruckus. I think he is absolutely enjoying himself. mo too.

They are aware they will not be permitted on campus. It appears that there will be a large off campus demonstration. They are very vocal Pro-Life supporters that go to many key rallies, supplying everyone with large signs. I asked them to take a digital camera this time, I would like to get photos of what happens up on my Voting4Life site. Notre Dame has young impressionable minds, and it is of great importance to make it very clear that abortion is evil. By giving a platform to a superhero of the culture of death, Notre Dame gives all the wrong signals to these youngsters; maybe abortion is okay if our Institution is honoring and praising a Pro-Death icon. They need to hear from real devout Catholics that abortion is the murdering of innocent babies. Those who do not put the all-mighty dollar above moral values, over innocent lives.

God Bless

 

[Bennie_P]

Wasn’t talking especially about Mr. Keyes. But if he had entered the campus with only a rosary in his hand, I don’t think anyone would have disapproved. Who was he trying to make the display to? He did what he wanted to do, he got attention. Now that is probably not a bad thing, but I don’t think ANY Pro Life group should run roughshod over the wishes of the Pro Life Graduates on May 17th for low key, dignified protests by going to the Mass celebrated on campus by Bishop D’Arcy and the several Rosary groups that will be praying at various locations on campus. These have all been approved by the administration.

Some protest walking around a Catholic University with a rosary, Duh, :doh2:let me see wouldn’t the public think that is what Catholics do on Catholic Universities Campuses? I can hear it now…kpeople: Roll in the cameras, we got a Catholic praying the rosary, film at 11. That’s right, that is, I really mean, a big news story because Catholics at ND don’t act like Catholics anymore. Especially their priest and administrators.

 

[Archie]

I think the most spiritually efficacious prayer and protest of this event would be if the entire student body and the faculty and staff just stayed home that day and prayed. Let the presidents have a mutual admiration gathering for the TV cameras.

 

[KathleenElsie]

I think the most spiritually efficacious prayer and protest of this event would be if the entire student body and the faculty and staff just stayed home that day and prayed. Let the presidents have a mutual admiration gathering for the TV cameras.

I think the news report will say that the “catholic” university ND holds the same values as BHO and make a big deal about it. ND will go up in secular pro-abortion value and ND will go down in faithful Catholic value.

 

[aggiecatholic05]

I think the news report will say that the “catholic” university ND holds the same values as BHO and make a big deal about it. ND will go up in secular pro-abortion value and ND will go down in faithful Catholic value.

well the president of the student body association was on the news today and said the vast majority of students supported obama coming AND getting the honorary degree and only a small minority was opposed. so this may be an instance when the news saying they agree would overall be accurate.

 

[elts1956]

Some protest walking around a Catholic University with a rosary, Duh, :doh2:let me see wouldn’t the public think that is what Catholics do on Catholic Universities Campuses? I can hear it now…kpeople: Roll in the cameras, we got a Catholic praying the rosary, film at 11. That’s right, that is, I really mean, a big news story because Catholics at ND don’t act like Catholics anymore. Especially their priest and administrators.

So the ND Pro Life students shouldn’t have organized or be a part of the Mass Bishop D’Arcy is going to be celebrating ON CAMPUS that day? (Have forgotten the time this will take place.) They shouldn’t support the various groups who will be saying the Rosary at the time of commencement? They shouldn’t have started the 1,000,000 Rosary campaign for bo’s converson? Did you help with this? They shouldn’t be giving red envelopes to bo, through (ahem) Jenkins? Don’t think they will ever get there.Did you send any red envelopes the the K of C? You shouldn’t be making generalizations about Catholics and their Faith and saying their Rosary.

A group of, don’t know how many, Pro Life ND students are boycotting their own graduation. Give them the credit they deserve. Would you be willing to do this for your faith and convictions after studying your butt off for four or more years? I hope someone is there to take picutures of the empty seats, if the seats are allowed to be put up.

The Pro Life students at ND have a good handle on this, so stop sqauwking. Besides, I understand there will be more “visible” Pro Life protests, off, but near the campus that day/evening.

 

[elts1956]

Some protest walking around a Catholic University with a rosary, Duh, :doh2:let me see wouldn’t the public think that is what Catholics do on Catholic Universities Campuses? I can hear it now…kpeople: Roll in the cameras, we got a Catholic praying the rosary, film at 11. That’s right, that is, I really mean, a big news story because Catholics at ND don’t act like Catholics anymore. Especially their priest and administrators.

They are aware they will not be permitted on campus. It appears that there will be a large off campus demonstration. They are very vocal Pro-Life supporters that go to many key rallies, supplying everyone with large signs. I asked them to take a digital camera this time, I would like to get photos of what happens up on my Voting4Life site. Notre Dame has young impressionable minds, and it is of great importance to make it very clear that abortion is evil. By giving a platform to a superhero of the culture of death, Notre Dame gives all the wrong signals to these youngsters; maybe abortion is okay if our Institution is honoring and praising a Pro-Death icon. They need to hear from real devout Catholics that abortion is the murdering of innocent babies. Those who do not put the all-mighty dollar above moral values, over innocent lives.

God Bless

Sounds like things are well in hand. Usually Pro Life groups are involved in sensible demonstrations. Not like the screaming meemies of the Pro Abort group.

God Bless you and all.

 

[Rach620]

So the ND Pro Life students shouldn’t have organized or be a part of the Mass Bishop D’Arcy is going to be celebrating ON CAMPUS that day? (Have forgotten the time this will take place.) They shouldn’t support the various groups who will be saying the Rosary at the time of commencement? They shouldn’t have started the 1,000,000 Rosary campaign for bo’s converson? Did you help with this? They shouldn’t be giving red envelopes to bo, through (ahem) Jenkins? Don’t think they will ever get there.Did you send any red envelopes the the K of C? You shouldn’t be making generalizations about Catholics and their Faith and saying their Rosary.

A group of, don’t know how many, Pro Life ND students are boycotting their own graduation. Give them the credit they deserve. Would you be willing to do this for your faith and convictions after studying your butt off for four or more years? I hope someone is there to take picutures of the empty seats, if the seats are allowed to be put up.

The Pro Life students at ND have a good handle on this, so stop sqauwking. Besides, I understand there will be more “visible” Pro Life protests, off, but near the campus that day/evening.

You rock, elts! This is one of the hardest decisions my husband and I have had to make, and I know that our parents are disappointed. DH’s father might even use one of our tickets to go to the Commencement, while we, in our caps and gowns, attend the rally.

Thank goodness there are other celebratory events for us–departmental ceremonies, an honors convocation, and the Baccalaureate Mass. It won’t be what it should be, but we will make it work.

We’re just really praying it’s not the “circus” that has been promised.