Bishop asks Notre Dame to affirm fidelity to Catholic teaching on marriage [CC]

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Following the overturning of Indiana’s marriage law and the consequent legalization of same-sex marriage, the University of Notre Dame extended marriage benefits to those in a same-sex …

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Well, I can’t say it surprises me coming from Notre Dame. It seems Notre Dame is quite liberal and doesn’t want to affirm any Church teachings on sexuality.

I do hope Bishop Rhoades brings it to heel.
 
The bishop is asking Notre Dame to defend religious liberty:

“I have communicated to Notre Dame my conviction that this affirmation should also include efforts to defend the religious liberty of our religious institutions that is threatened in potentially numerous ways by the legal redefinition of marriage, including the government forcing our Catholic institutions to extend any special benefits we afford to actual marriage to same-sex “marriage” as well.”
 
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So…is the bishop asking them to take back the benefits they have already offered?

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Not necessarily, it was a call to investigate how the University can comply with the law and Catholic teaching. Relevant excepts:

“I would like to see further study of what the law requires as well as what religious liberty protections Notre Dame and our other Catholics institutions have so as not to be compelled to cooperate in the application of the law redefining marriage. Our Indiana Catholic Conference is studying these issues.”

“Living in conformity with our Catholic teaching that marriage by its nature is between one man and one woman needs religious liberty protection so we are not forced to treat same-sex unions as equivalent to marriage. Just as it is not unjust to limit the bond of marriage to the union of one man and one woman, the Church teaches that “it is not unjust to oppose granting to homosexual couples benefits that in justice belong to (true) marriage alone” (USCCB, “Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination”).”

You can read the full statement here:

todayscatholicnews.org/category/rhoades-columnists/
 
I know Bishop Rhoades has made preserving the Catholic identity of Notre Dame one of his top priorities since the day of his installation as our bishop. His homily at that mass was about his episcopal motto, Truth with Charity, and preached strongly against moral relativism, as did the man who ordained him, Saint John Paul, II.

The very next day after his installlation he travelled to Notre Dame with his predecessor Bishop John D’Arcy to try to mend the strained relationship that had existed between the diocese and the university. That strain existed even before the university defied its bishop by giving an unopposed platform and honors to the foremost advocate of abortion to ever be president of our country.

Bishop Rhoades has been outspoken and consistent in preaching that the truth about the right to life and the nature of marriage are known to be true from both reason and Divine Revelation. The last two times I heard that message from him were at the Red Mass for lawyers and public servants, and at the White Mass for health care professionals, both within the last month.

In my opinion we have reached the point where being faithful to Christ will require us to engage in some civil disobedience. We are obliged to disobey unjust laws, and Catholic universities should be leaders in that movement, just as Notre Dame did publicly oppose the KuKluxKlan in the 1920’s and supported the civil rights movement in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
 
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