Scandal at Notre Dame

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For two consecutive years, the Catholic University of Notre Dame hosted a “Queer Film Festival” promoting sodomy to students. At one session, pro-homosexual Sister Jeannine Gramick is reported to have told students:

"I’m beginning to believe that the greatest sin for lesbian and gay people is to want to be straight." (LifeSiteNews.com, 02-14-05)
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This can't happen again…

That's why I am asking you to join me in a massive prayerful protest to STOP this scandalous festival.

[Click here now to send your urgent protest to Notre Dame president Fr. John Jenkins. ](http://www.tfp.org/student_action/activities/protests/nd_protest.htm)

You see, next year's "Queer Film Festival" was already approved by Notre Dame's board of directors. In a board meeting, they stated: "Such films should be shown and discussions on them should be held on a university campus."

But you and I have a good chance to STOP it. Here's how…
  • Protest. Sign your protest message to Rev. Fr. John Jenkins, urging him to cancel the “Queer Film Festival,” which usually takes place in February. (You don’t need to be a student to join this effort.)
  • Pray. Pray in reparation for this scandal. Pray for students.
  • Help. Join our moral crusade by forwarding this email to as many friends as you can. Let’s make this prayerful protest snowball, and stop this anti-Catholic festival.

    At Notre Dame’s 2005 “Queer Film Festival,” Terrence McNally, the author of the blasphemous play “Corpus Christi” was a featured speaker. And as you may know, McNally’s “Corpus Christi” depicts Jesus and the apostles as homosexuals!

    That’s why I am urging you to join me TODAY in protesting and stopping this event that attacks Catholic morality.
 
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I'm rallying students from 375 college campuses to protest against this festival. My staff of volunteers and I have never worked so hard in our lives. But there's only so much we can do. We urgently need your help, and we need it right now. Immediately. Today.
Trusting in the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, your friend,

John Ritchie
TFP Student Action Director
[www.tfp.org/sa](http://www.tfp.org/sa)
P.S. Can you help me generate more letters by forwarding my email to your friends? Then call Fr. Jenkins to complain (always politely and respectfully). Personal letters are also very effective. Send them to:

Rev. Fr. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., President
University of Notre Dame
317 Main Building
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: 574-631-5000
Email: Jenkins.1@nd.edu

Dr. Thomas G. Burish, Provost
University of Notre Dame
300 Main Building
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Email: tburish@nd.edu or provost@nd.edu
Phone: 574-631-6631, Fax: 574-631-6897

Other numbers to call:

**Alumni Association **
Phone: 574-631-6000
Email: alumni-support-l@lists.alumni.nd.edu

Vice President for Public Affairs and Communication
Ms Hilary Crnkovich
Phone: 574-631-6798
Email: crnkovich.1@nd.edu
 
Buffalo Grove High School, IL Elects Gay Homecoming King & Queen

dailyherald.com/opinion/constable.asp?id=107525

This story about young people is written entirely for the benefit of us folks on the other side of 30. Older generations read the details and declare it news because we can’t fathom something like this ever happening back when we were in high school.

Buffalo Grove High School elected an openly gay homecoming queen and king. But wait, there’s more. Or is it less?
 
Last June, the outgoing Notre Dame President Fr Edward Malloy accepted an honourary doctorate at the same convocation as Dr Henry Morgentaler, a notorious Canadian abortionist, and two other abortion advocates.

Dr Morgentaler claims that abortion prevents crime by allowing only ‘wanted’ babies to come into the world. His premise is that the Nazis were unwanted babies. This claim ignores that 37% of the African American population have been lost to abortion and that the major subscribers to abortion in Canada are the First Nations people.

Abortion access has helped make society safer: Morgentaler

In an attempt to appeal to anti-genocide sentiments, the true colours of Dr Morgentaler’s philosophy show through clearly, in my opinion, as a movement not so much to prevent ‘unwanted babies’ from being born but to prevent ‘unwanted races’ from gaining ground against the Family Compact in Canada. :mad:

Fr Malloy justified accepting the award by claiming that his particular award was given by a Catholic college within the secular University of Western Ontario which made the decision for all the awards. Moreover, the abortionist and abortion advocates were not receiving their awards from the Catholic college but at events separated in time and location.

This obfuscates what really happened. Movements in the university senate to award Morgentaler had been unsuccessful until Gerald Killan joined the awards committee. Killan is Principal of Kings College – one of three Catholic affiliates at the University of Western Ontario.

Western rejects Morgentaler for award at least twice before

Requests to Killan to make an accommodation for Catholic teaching on abortion and to separate the whole event from the university campus did not exactly fall on deaf ears: they were met with arch hostility from Killan.

It was pointed out to Killan that pretending that a separate location and date for Malloy’s award serves to put Catholic teaching re abortion on a par with secular teaching re abortion. Not only is this is a post-modernist spin on moral relativism, which Pope Benedict firmly denounces, but it is also remote material collaboration with an intrinsic evil which the Church as a whole firmly denounces.

Catholics for Life and many others asked Fr Malloy to either refuse the award outright or to use his award as leverage to get the message out on the Gospel of Life. He did neither. In fact, in his acceptance speech, not a word was mentioned about the abortion controversy at Western.

Fr Malloy was in a position to do great good and to further the Gospel of Life. In my opinion, his actual actions were a devasting and demoralizing disappointment to the Catholic Church, a betrayal of young Catholic minds looking to him for example and guidance, and a blow to the good reputation of Notre Dame.

Any good which he was able to achieve in his life, in his university, and in his Church have, in my opinion, been overshadowed by his ill-advised political decision to accept an award tainted by association with an abortionist.

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Catholics for Life website has been inactive over the summer but there is some background information on Notre Dame still up on the site.

Open Letter 1: The Alternative Catholic Solution

The Pope speaks

Cardinal Newman Society

Ex Corde Ecclesiae: Apostolic Constitution of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II on Catholic Universities

Notre Dame also hosted the Vagina Monologues btw.

As well as emailing Fr Jenkins, it is critical to email Bishop D’Arcy, in whose diocese Notre Dame is located.

Achieving the goals of Ex Corde Ecclesiae: From the Heart of the Church

The Most Reverend John M D’Arcy
Bishop of Fort Wayne / South Bend Indiana USA
mschott@fwdiocese.fwsb.org

Here is a list of news links concerning the Morgentaler/Malloy controversy: News coverage

I strongly believe that Notre Dame must decide what manner of creature she is: a great Catholic university or whatever the other category is. If she refuses to uphold Catholic teaching, then the title ‘Catholic’ does not belong to her and Bishop D’Arcy needs to know that Catholics no longer consider Notre Dame to be a Catholic university.
 
As a student at Notre Dame, I will also tell you that there’s a particular campaign going on amongst the students to promote the “Gay Agenda”. Students are now wearing orange shirts (I think it’s a once-a-week thing) that say:

“Gay? Fine by me”

The purpose is to lobby support for gay/lesbian groups on campus. There exists, however, the faithful subculture who are loyal to the Magisterium and are pushing for a more Catholic university. We have recently had Amy Welborn come to speak ( Blog: open****book), and we are looking to get more orthodox speakers. It is my hope that before I leave I can get Tim Staples / Fr. Corapi / Ros Moss / Fr. Pacwa / any combination of these to come and speak. Guys like McBrien will be out of there soon, and the field is ripe for a new evangalization.

Just my two cents.

God Bless,
RyanL
 
WIth Rome coming in to inspect the Seminaries, I wonder if they have plans to come and inspect the Catholic Colleges and Universities too? :hmmm:
 
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RyanL:
…Guys like McBrien will be out of there soon, and the field is ripe for a new evangalization…
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I hope you’re right. I’ll take it as a sign when they start beating USC.
 
PLAL said:
Buffalo Grove High School, IL Elects Gay Homecoming King & Queen

dailyherald.com/opinion/constable.asp?id=107525

This story about young people is written entirely for the benefit of us folks on the other side of 30. Older generations read the details and declare it news because we can’t fathom something like this ever happening back when we were in high school.

Buffalo Grove High School elected an openly gay homecoming queen and king. But wait, there’s more. Or is it less?
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This is a MUST READ ARTICLE. Also by the way – Notre Dame’s starting defensive back (#9 Tom Zibakowski) on its football team went to Buffalo Grove High School before he got a football full ride scholarship to Notre Dame. Can someone ask Tommy what is going on at his former high school??

**THOMAS: Selective Morality at Buffalo Grove H.S. Raises Difficult Questions
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http://www.illinoisleader.com/content/img/f29264/Flag-Rainbow1.gif OPINION - Scott Thomas writes about a new kind of tradition at Buffalo Grove high school, “So, the tradition of a jock and a cheerleader being homecoming king and queen was honored…in a way. But, it was honored in a very ‘progressive’ way…”
FULL STORY…
 
I am a Notre Dame alum. There are actually some exciting, positive happenings in the Fort Wayne-South Bend Indiana Diocese - a new fully-CATHOLIC radio station!

Redeemer Radio is a non-profit organization of lay Catholics based in Fort Wayne. Redeemer Radio recently completed a purchase agreement for WLYV 1450 AM radio in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The station plans to be broadcasting Catholic programming in January 2006.

You can find out more at:
www.RedeemerRadio.com.

Redeemer Radio is a response to John Paul II’s call for a “New Evangelization.” The goal of the group is to soon be able to provide Catholic programming to all of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese. In a 1997 address to the Catholic Media Association John Paul II stated, “Radio offers perhaps the closest equivalent to what Jesus was able to do with large groups through his preaching. Radio is an intimate medium which can reach people on the street, in their cars or in their homes. Radio may well be the most cost effective means of reaching large numbers of people who may not want to read or may lack exposure to Catholic publications, but will be willing to ‘evesdrop’ on Catholic radio stations.” Since that date – Catholic Radio has experienced exponential growth from seven US stations to over one hundred today and has been the driving force behind a multitude of conversions and reversions to the faith.

John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter “The Rapid Development” released in February of this year calls the entire Church to a pastoral and cultural “revision” of its presence in and attitude toward the media. The Pope said that ecclesial dynamism in the world depends on this revision. The media, he observed, can be used “to proclaim the Gospel or to reduce it to silence within men’s hearts.” Its themes recall those of the Second Vatican Council decree “Inter Mirifica.”

The rapid growth of Catholic Radio is illustrated by the EWTN Catholic Radio network which includes 80 affiliate stations across the US and the largest privately-owned shortwave station in the world (www.EWTN.com/radio). The Relevant Radio Catholic network (www.RelevantRadio.com) broadcasts Catholic programming on 26 stations.

The growing ranks of Catholic broadcasters even include stations such as KBVM which is an independently-owned Catholic station located on the campus of Holy Cross-operated University of Portland (www.kbvm.com).

You can learn more about Redeemer Radio at www.RedeemerRadio.com

Please keep Redeemer Radio - and particularly our South Bend efforts - in your prayers.
 
A friend of mine is a freshman at ND, and he told us the following story (via a forum we have). Interestingly it came up because of dissent in another school, Creighton.

"Seriously, though, that’s rather amusing about the whole Creighton v. Omaha Diocese thing. It reminds me of a meeting that all Keenan freshmen had to go to last week called CommUnity (the name has nothing to do with the talk, though). It was basically for this group at Notre Dame for gays and lesbians, which in and of itself isn’t bad in that it helps people who are gay or lesbian get the information on what the Church teaches and gives them support on dealing with it. We had a junior and a grad student who were both gay talk to us, and at the end one of the freshmen asked, “The Catholic Church teaches that a homosexual act is a sin. Does this mean that neither of you will ever commit a homosexual act?” To which the junior replied, “Did I mention I had a boyfriend?”, as though the freshman’s question was ridiculous. He laughed, and no one laughed with him. The junior, looking very uncomfortable, then explained that while the Church may teach against homosexual acts, Thomas Aquinas also stressed primacy of conscience, and that he believes (deep in his conscience) that it’s not wrong. The reaction of the students was amazing. No one seemed to like his answer, and one of the guys on my floor spoke up and said that you could use that to justify anything, and that you can’t just suddenly decide that the Church is wrong. The junior had no response, and the meeting ended. "

So yea, I have no doubt that there are some liberal strains in ND, at least there are some rational, orthodox students who make up, if not the majority, at least a reasonably large group.
 
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RyanL:
As a student at Notre Dame, I will also tell you that there’s a particular campaign going on amongst the students to promote the “Gay Agenda”. Students are now wearing orange shirts (I think it’s a once-a-week thing) that say:

“Gay? Fine by me”

The purpose is to lobby support for gay/lesbian groups on campus. There exists, however, the faithful subculture who are loyal to the Magisterium and are pushing for a more Catholic university. We have recently had Amy Welborn come to speak (Blog: open book), and we are looking to get more orthodox speakers. It is my hope that before I leave I can get Tim Staples / Fr. Corapi / Ros Moss / Fr. Pacwa / any combination of these to come and speak. Guys like McBrien will be out of there soon, and the field is ripe for a new evangalization.

Just my two cents.

God Bless,
RyanL
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Peace be with you!

Hahaha! Oh, I would absolutely LOVE to see Fr. Corapi and McBrien go toe to toe!!! Fr. Corapi doesn’t try to water down his talks. In fact, I heard a talk on Catholic radio where he was talking about pro-abortion Catholic politicians and read off the formal definition of heresy and said that they were all heretics. Then he said, “Would I refuse them at the communion rail? I just hope I would’t recognize them!” I love Fr. Corapi!!!

I will pray for you in hopes that you can get some of these guys to come talk at Notre Dame. That would be great!

In Christ,
Rand
 
As an '05 graduate of ND, I’ve seen my share of campus controversies when the administration refuses to overrule the activities of renegade departments (the favorite loophole for allowing V Monologues, Queer film festivals, national coming out days, etc. is some notion that a Catholic English department doesn’t need to comply to the same standards as a Catholic university). I had hopes that Fr. Jenkins would possess the resolve to reform the university that was so critically lacking in Fr. Malloy’s administration, but I guess I hoped for too much.

Notre Dame does have very encouraging pockets of orthodox Catholicism, and if it ever does shape up it will be (at least as things now stand) because of student initiative, not the pangs of conscience of the CSC priests who run it. I suppose it’s time for me to write another letter to the president, albeit this time a new one. I encourage everyone to write. The more feedback, the more chance it will register.
 
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