SF Archbishop Emeritus Worried About Embarrassing Obama

[Caveman]

“Agents of public embarrassment of the newly elected president”
Retired San Francisco archbishop says calls for cancellation of Obama’s speech at Notre Dame could backfire on Church, pro-life movement

San Francisco Archbishop Emeritus John R. Quinn has chimed in on the Obama-Notre Dame controversy, warning U.S. bishops calling on the Catholic university to cancel its invitation to “weigh very seriously the consequences if the American bishops are seen as the agents of the public embarrassment of the newly elected president.”

Quinn, 80, served as Archbishop of San Francisco from 1977-1995, and as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1977-1980. Writing in the March 30 edition of the Jesuit weekly magazine America, the retired archbishop said, “The demand from many Catholic bishops and lay leaders that the University of Notre Dame rescind its invitation to President Obama to deliver the 2009 commencement address is surely a critical moment in the relationship between the Catholic Church in the United States and the wider American society. Before battle lines harden further on this issue, we should take time-out to ask some hard and penetrating questions.”

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[Don_L]

Scandal to the Church while honoring an aggressive advocate of infanticide is the embarassment -not to mention shepards like this who concern themselves more about the feelings of the wolves than the safety of the sheep under their charge.
The embarassment is that of some 365 odd bishops only 29 dare to speak out.

Well when the Church collapsed in England under Henry VIII I guess we just had Thomas More the Man for all Seasons -unlike our fair weather friends here.

 

[LRThunder]

The early Church, particularly the Apostles, would be ashamed of the Archbishop. They went through much worse than anything we would see if the Obama degree/speech was canceled.

 

[Neil_Anthony]

Kind of like how Jesus refused to ever publicly embarass the pharisees?

The only good thing about this story is that he’s no longer a bishop.

“Agents of public embarrassment of the newly elected president”
Retired San Francisco archbishop says calls for cancellation of Obama’s speech at Notre Dame could backfire on Church, pro-life movement

San Francisco Archbishop Emeritus John R. Quinn has chimed in on the Obama-Notre Dame controversy, warning U.S. bishops calling on the Catholic university to cancel its invitation to “weigh very seriously the consequences if the American bishops are seen as the agents of the public embarrassment of the newly elected president.”

Quinn, 80, served as Archbishop of San Francisco from 1977-1995, and as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1977-1980. Writing in the March 30 edition of the Jesuit weekly magazine America, the retired archbishop said, “The demand from many Catholic bishops and lay leaders that the University of Notre Dame rescind its invitation to President Obama to deliver the 2009 commencement address is surely a critical moment in the relationship between the Catholic Church in the United States and the wider American society. Before battle lines harden further on this issue, we should take time-out to ask some hard and penetrating questions.”

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[cathgal]

We don’t need this, bishop !

Haven’t the Catholics been embarrassed enough ?!

 

[Don_L]

I just received an e-mail from a well connected Catholic friend who says that Georgetown -that beacon of Catholic purity, has just invited Obama to speak.

There can only be one observation an all this - they have lost their faith and like giddy school children, have sought the approval of this secular world instead of God’'s.

 

[jhcooper]

Bishops who lack the back bone to stand up for our basic beliefs eventually cause more people to leave the church. The salvation of the Church is more Catholicism, not a watered down version!

 

[Don_L]

Bishops who lack the back bone to stand up for our basic beliefs eventually cause more people to leave the church. The salvation of the Church is more Catholicism, not a watered down version!

Hoew true. When the Church leftist went down to Central and South America with their uzi’s and their socialist liberation theology in the place of the message of Christ, as He entrusted to His Church, the loss to the Church was massive. Many of those ex-Catholics went looking for the message elsewhere and found it in evangelical teaching about heaven and hell.