Unsettled Dust on Notre Dame's Catholic Plate

Unsettled Dust on Notre Dame’s Catholic Plate

None are so blind as those who will not see.

The crowds have now gone from what must had to have been the most publicized commencement ceremonies in the storied history of the University of Notre Dame.

The graduates are now off to pursue their careers or to a summer break prior to further schooling as their parents’ checkbooks breathe a sigh of relief from tuition payments.

However, the dust hasn’t come close to settling on the issues that clouded what should have otherwise been a sparkling, cloudless spring day.

Dust has a way of settling eventually and has already begun to besprinkle the Catholic plate, in unsettling ways.

Dusty plates may be an image that germaphobes find disquieting but it works in this instance. If that image is suggestive of dirt, all the better. Notre Dame’s Catholic plate became appreciably dirtier last Sunday.

First Place in the Dirtiest Catholic Plate Award for the second week of May 2009 is hereby conferred on the President of Notre Dame and on that formerly-Catholic institution.

The reasons are many for that dusty dirt: for inviting an abortionist to deliver this year’s commencement address, for granting him an honorary award, and for the failure of the 12,000 in the audience to rise up en masse during the graduation ceremony and quietly exit in graphic protest.

A fine public university, Arizona State, had previously shown a greater sense of institutional integrity by inviting the same guest to speak at its commencement but refusing to confer unearned honors on said guest.

That guest jested over the ASU rebuke and still was unworthy of being so honored by May 17th but Notre Dame had no moral qualms over granting him a Doctor of Laws honorary degree.

Apparently, the lure of prestige and a similar ideology superseded all other concerns for Notre Dame President Father John Jenkins who gleefully escorted his commencement guest into the Joyce Center, lauded his guest, and all but gushed over the reciprocated laudatory remarks.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

There were heroes in South Bend last Sunday,...
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Randall Terry and the Shame of Notre Dame

Randall Terry and Alan Keyes are more than a bit overly-dramatic for my tastes, which is not to suggest they are wrong in their current quest to be arrested again on or outside the campus of Notre Dame University.

The days dwindle down to a precious few until that formerly great Catholic institution publically surrenders its moral integrity and its Catholic soul on May 17th in a vain and needless quest for prestige, which it already has–in spades!

ND president, Father John Jenkins, must truly believe that welcoming and offering accolades to a virtually fanatical abortion advocate will add some lustre to his career whereas this will be remembered in Notre Dame’s annals as the day his beloved university pimped for Obama.

Terry was arrested for trespassing on May 1st and posted bail; his court date is set for May 19th in South Bend, two days after the scheduled commencement.

Excerpts from Terry’s May 4th statement on his arrest and incarceration.

"Six of us went to Notre Dame on Friday, May 1, to make a visual statement about child-killing and ND’s invitation to President Obama to speak at the ‘09 graduation. We pushed baby carriages with dolls covered with stage blood, and a bumper sticker stating:

Obama ‘09 One Dead baby at a Time Notre Dame . . .

I was taken alone to a cell on campus where I prayed the sorrowful mysteries. . . We were transferred to jail – at Notre Dame’s order – for our peaceful, visual defense of the babies; meanwhile Notre Dame plunges ahead with her plan to honor the premier child-slayer of the western hemisphere. . . .

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/)

Resignation Letter of Notre Dame's President

Resignation Letter of Notre Dame's President

In order to make life easier for Notre Dame’s president to resign his position in disgrace after inviting the avidly pro-abortionist President Obama to speak and receive an award on May 17th at the university commencement, Randall Terry has obligingly drafted Rev. John Jenkins’ letter of resignation.

If hope truly does spring eternal, we can hope Father Jenkins wises up, smells his forgotten priestly vows, and signs it.

If he refuses due to the ravages of his sin of pride on top of turning his back on his Catholicity and the moral foundations of Notre Dame, it would be an even more powerful demonstration of support for the right to life of pre-born babies if the faculty and graduates play hooky on May 17th, stand with their backs to Jenkins and Obama during their addresses, or respectfully vacate the Joyce Center when they take the dais.

One wag wishfully suggested, “Notre Dame has recently redesigned the carved inscription above the side door entrance to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. What used to read “God, Country, Notre Dame” now proudly declares “Obama, Country, Notre Dame:” http://chatteringteeth.blogspot.com/2009/05/notre-dames-new-motto-obama-country.html. I would disagree with the country reference, as well.

The Resignation Letter of Rev. John I. Jenkins, CSC

To the Board of Trustees:

When I took holy vows as a priest, I had high hopes and deep desires to serve Christ and His Church with valor, and without wavering in fidelity.

Regrettably, I have failed in my duty as a priest, . . .

(Read the rest of Randall's resignation letter submitted on Father Jenkins' behalf at http://genelalor.com/)