Is Christianity about to triumph or fail?

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People in this secular society get more upset about stories of animals being killed than babies. This country better get it’s thinking straight or we are headed for some really rough times.
 
Today heard that an elderly Catholic priest at Notre Dame was just arrested for protesting the honorary award to Obama, a strong advocate of the right to kill the unborn. Has Notre Dame fallen so low?
 
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Today heard that an elderly Catholic priest at Notre Dame was just arrested for protesting the honorary award to Obama, a strong advocate of the right to kill the unborn. Has Notre Dame fallen so low?
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Where did you hear that? Have a source. Man, oh man, are things getting out of hand if this is true. I suppose if it is, the priest was arrested because he didn’t okay his protest with the powers that be at NDU. What a world we live in.:mad:

Yep. Priest arrested with Keyes on the 15th.

seattlepi.com/national/1110ap_us_obama_notre_dame.html
 
What does this thing at Notre Dame say about the unity of the Catholic Church? Is there no unity left?

With 194 dioceses in the United States, and only seventy-four bishops opposing the honorary award to the most pro-choice President of the United States, are we left to conclude that the majority of the U.S. bishops are O.K. with Notre Dame flouting the bishops’ policy against awards to pro-choice celebrities?

And if no further action is taken against Notre Dame, are we to expect that more Catholic colleges and universities will make a mockery of the official Church position with even less opposition by the bishops?

How this all shakes out in the end will tell us whether the U.S. bishops are as divided as the German bishops were in opposing the Holocaust of Nazi Germany.
 
Now, after observing Obama at the Notre Dame commencement, I’m really worried about the direction in which the Church is moving in the United States. Apparently the conservatives in the Church, including the bishops, are powerless to stop the radical left inside the Church. Obama gets to preach to Catholic graduates about being “open-minded.” Catholic graduates and their faculty cheer him on. The president of Notre Dame, grinning from ear to ear, seems pleased as punch that he has defied 74 bishops and gotten away with it.

I think inside the Church there is a war for the soul of the Church, and it appears that the conservatives are failing. A Protestant minister was interviewed yesterday, complaining that he thought the Catholic Church used to lead in the struggle against abortion, and the Protestants only joined late in the battle. Now he is puzzled by the failure of the bishops to control the premiere Catholic University from defecting by honoring the most pro-choice president in the history of the country.
 
:signofcross:I attended the Notre Dame Rally arranged by “ND response” - Notre Dame Response Student Coalition. I don’t know the record of attendance, but I would say a few hundred on the grounds, while various groups of picketers remained outside the area. “Truth Trucks” were circling the campus, and an airplane with a banner showing a 10-week abortion flew overhead. Of course, there were helicopters (white), we saw Air Force 1 coming in at low altitude.

An outdoor Mass was held at 11:15 a.m. in the South Quad (near Rockne Memorial) with clergy concelebrating. A large screen was set up for those gathered in the distance to see what was going on onstage. I just want to say that there is HOPE - hope in the future with a strong core of dedicated Cathollics and students ready and willing to stand up for their faith and their conviction that, in the phrase from our country’s Declaration of Independence, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, the word “life” must be first. Two dozen students decided to omit their graduation and join with Father Frank Pavone from www.priestsforlife.org for a separate ceremony complete with Scriptural rosary.

Some of the wonderful speakers: Rev. Wilson Miscamble, CSC, a prof. of History at ND, who gave a profound speech, Chris Godfrey, ND Law, '93 and former N.Y. Giants football offensive guard and founder of Athletes for Life, Elizabeth Borger, who had a “surprise” pregnancy while a student, Rev. John J. Raphael, SSJ; ND '89, principal of a high school in New Orleans who put Obama to shame with eloquent rhetoric that was not flat and monosyllabic like the President’s.

The people there were the Church in all its glory. The signs, the t-shirts with loaded slogans and Scripure, the rosarys (one man wore a huge rosary draped over his shoulder), the bloodied crucifix that was photographed dozens of times and so many prayerful people kneeling in the grass, cheering and clapping – one speaker referred to us as the “Catholic nerds” – it was oh so heartening. How I wish that we would have been joined by the other 950 faculty and nearly 3,000 graduates! However, many of them wore “Precious Feet” pins on their mortarboards, but others wore Obama campaign stickers.

Yet, I have hope, since new polls suggest that now 51% call themselves pro-life (one is a Pew poll), while 40-some-percent call themselves pro-choice. The base of the Church is strengthening. May more be drawn into the fold. . . this we pray to the Good Shepherd. :thumbsup
 
Thank you for the thumbs up. Those of us who could not be present at your gathering are now better informed, since the media seesm to have largely ignored you (except for the arrests, of course). It would have been even more interesting if a few bishops had shown up and also been arrested by campus security.
 
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