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dixieagle
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You are confusing this misinformation with the White House request to cover a particular Christian symbol near the podium when he was at Georgetown University recently. (Which, of course, was outrageous.)
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Not_a_Die_Hard
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I believe it is time for some sanity on this topic. The University of Notre Dame has invited the President of the U.S. to speak at it’s commencement. It appears some conservative Catholics disapprove of the University’s choice simply because the president a non-Catholic, does not support the church’s position on abortion.
The commencement is about the graduates, not abortion. It is their day and to have the most powerful man in the world deliver the commencement address will be a thrill for the majority in attendance
Some conservatives on the other hand will use abortion to politicize what should be a memorable event for the graduates of Notre Dame. Do conservatives ever wonder why they continue to be in the minority.
The commencement is about the graduates, not abortion. It is their day and to have the most powerful man in the world deliver the commencement address will be a thrill for the majority in attendance
Some conservatives on the other hand will use abortion to politicize what should be a memorable event for the graduates of Notre Dame. Do conservatives ever wonder why they continue to be in the minority.
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fix
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Would you hold such a position if the speaker supported racism or DWI?
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Rachel84
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Thank you for filling me in!
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Rach620
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This sounds like a rumor that was started based upon what happened when Obama gave a speech at Georgetown, and asked that they cover the IHS behind him in the room. It would be well-nigh impossible to cover all holy images at Notre Dame, especially because the doctoral robes which Obama will be wearing has University’s crest, featuring the cross and “Vita, Dulcedo et Spes” on them.
This isn’t a political issue. There is no such thing as a conservative or liberal Catholic; either you believe in and uphold what the Church teaches, or you don’t.
Abortion and the related ‘life issues’ fall in the sphere of non-negotiable moral teachings of the Church, and have become the defining cultural issues of our time. Catholics in the public square are rightly defined NOT ONLY by the positions they take on this issue (as Notre Dame says it is pro-life), BUT ALSO the degree of importance which they place on this issue in relation to others.
By inviting the most radically pro-life president this country has ever seen and awarding him an honorary doctorate of laws, Notre Dame is honoring the kind of life in the public square which any Catholic in America today who takes the Church’s moral stance on abortion seriously should abhor. THAT is why people are outraged–because Notre Dame, an institution where Catholic culture should flourish, has so obviously abandoned that culture.
The central issue here is not political, and it’s not even all about abortion–it’s about Catholic education. Notre Dame has long been so visibly Catholic, and markedly more committed to its Catholic identity and to the coming together of faith and reason in education than most of its peers. No school with Notre Dame’s academic reputation stands poised to take its place in the realm of Catholic (or even sincerely Christian) education.
Look, next weekend is my class’s Commencement, and it pains me that it has been ruined by a political spectacle. None of the graduates are getting the graduation experience of sending-off into the world which they deserve for all of their hard work. IMO, many of the displays of opposition are going too far and beg the question “Where was this outrage in November, when it could have made a real difference?”. My focus in protesting this invitation has been on attempting to restore real Catholic culture at ND, a culture which I saw flourishing during my time here…those who wish to detract from that goal and “turn it into a circus” should be left by the wayside.
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Don_L
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Did it ever occur to liberals that believe it’s okay to murder innocent humans when they’re most vulnerable, that some others might believe that to be offensive and that it has nothing to do with politics except that one political party elects to do the evil more than the other?
That this particular president supports outright infanticide - the most evil inarguable slaughter of a fully independent baby by witholding all nutrients until slow and agonizing death takes place, doesn’t seem to enter into the culture of death’s atrophied consciences, is reason to ignore any and all moral pretense about justice and things they pontificate about like waterboarding etc.
That the governmeent approved murder of babies takes place for sexual convenience more often than not, is hardly a hidden fact. It’s bad enough to have to accept the evil, but please spare us the faux pompous lecture please.
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