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A Calumny against the Cardinal
The Chicago Tribune is wrong about the Notre Dame controversy, and much else.
By George Weigel
It would be difficult to imagine a more mindless misrepresentation of the right relationship of church and state in these United States than that proffered by the Chicago Tribune on April 3, in a vicious editorial and accompanying op-ed column attacking the local Catholic archbishop, Cardinal Francis George.
As virtually the entire sentient world knows by now, the University of Notre Dame, which presents (and sells) itself as America’s premier Catholic institution of higher learning, invited Pres. Barack Obama to be its 2009 commencement speaker and saluted the president’s accomplishments with the promise of an honorary doctorate of laws. A controversy immediately ensued and has remained on a high boil, as critics of Notre Dame’s judgment wondered why a Catholic university should propose as a model to its graduates a president whose accomplishments to date include putting the federal government and the taxpayers back into the business of funding both abortion and embryo-destructive stem-cell research. Cardinal George, asked for his views, described the invitation as an “embarrassment” to the Catholic Church, and observed that Notre Dame clearly “didn’t understand what it means to be Catholic.” more…
article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTY3NDA3MzU4ODQ0YjZmYmU2ZjZlYzU1NjMzNmJkZTI=
**This is absolutely fabulous. If I could only write like this wonderful man. **
A Calumny against the Cardinal
The Chicago Tribune is wrong about the Notre Dame controversy, and much else.
By George Weigel
It would be difficult to imagine a more mindless misrepresentation of the right relationship of church and state in these United States than that proffered by the Chicago Tribune on April 3, in a vicious editorial and accompanying op-ed column attacking the local Catholic archbishop, Cardinal Francis George.
As virtually the entire sentient world knows by now, the University of Notre Dame, which presents (and sells) itself as America’s premier Catholic institution of higher learning, invited Pres. Barack Obama to be its 2009 commencement speaker and saluted the president’s accomplishments with the promise of an honorary doctorate of laws. A controversy immediately ensued and has remained on a high boil, as critics of Notre Dame’s judgment wondered why a Catholic university should propose as a model to its graduates a president whose accomplishments to date include putting the federal government and the taxpayers back into the business of funding both abortion and embryo-destructive stem-cell research. Cardinal George, asked for his views, described the invitation as an “embarrassment” to the Catholic Church, and observed that Notre Dame clearly “didn’t understand what it means to be Catholic.” more…
article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTY3NDA3MzU4ODQ0YjZmYmU2ZjZlYzU1NjMzNmJkZTI=
**This is absolutely fabulous. If I could only write like this wonderful man. **