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The Notre Dame-Obama controversy was talked about everywhere
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Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles presents a Los Angeles Lakers championship T-shirt to Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla., during a break at the bishops’ spring meeting in San Antonio June 17. Mahony and Wenski had a friendly wager on the NBA Finals. The Lakers bet the Orlando Magic. (CNS photo/Bahram Mark Sobhani)
I spent much of this week in San Antonio for the spring meeting of the U.S. bishops, where the press gallery was the loneliest corner of the room. Largely because the bishops opted not to put the flap over Notre Dame and President Barack Obama on their public agenda, many media organizations, including every major secular news outlet in the country, took a pass.
In reality, the fact that the Notre Dame-Obama controversy wasn’t floated in public merely meant that it was talked about everywhere else.
Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco said on Wednesday that it came up “at breakfast, over coffee and in the hallways,” and several bishops reported that the topic surfaced during their private regional meetings Wednesday morning. Bishops also reported that it came up in Thursday afternoon’s closed-door executive session, in the form of a discussion of the conference’s 2004 policy statement on engaging figures in political life. (That statement stipulated that Catholic institutions should not honor politicians who hold views contrary to church teaching, a provision that many bishops felt Notre Dame violated.) The session was led by Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Center, chair of the bishops’ committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, which is responsible for the document.
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The Notre Dame-Obama controversy was talked about everywhere
http://ncronline.org/files/bishops20090618.jpg?1245423190
Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles presents a Los Angeles Lakers championship T-shirt to Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla., during a break at the bishops’ spring meeting in San Antonio June 17. Mahony and Wenski had a friendly wager on the NBA Finals. The Lakers bet the Orlando Magic. (CNS photo/Bahram Mark Sobhani)
I spent much of this week in San Antonio for the spring meeting of the U.S. bishops, where the press gallery was the loneliest corner of the room. Largely because the bishops opted not to put the flap over Notre Dame and President Barack Obama on their public agenda, many media organizations, including every major secular news outlet in the country, took a pass.
In reality, the fact that the Notre Dame-Obama controversy wasn’t floated in public merely meant that it was talked about everywhere else.
Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco said on Wednesday that it came up “at breakfast, over coffee and in the hallways,” and several bishops reported that the topic surfaced during their private regional meetings Wednesday morning. Bishops also reported that it came up in Thursday afternoon’s closed-door executive session, in the form of a discussion of the conference’s 2004 policy statement on engaging figures in political life. (That statement stipulated that Catholic institutions should not honor politicians who hold views contrary to church teaching, a provision that many bishops felt Notre Dame violated.) The session was led by Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Center, chair of the bishops’ committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, which is responsible for the document.
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