Notre Shame via Catholic Cartoon blog

Catholic Cartoon has it right.

Curt Jester has this to say about Notre Dame's Fr Jenkin's "explanation" given in a five page online (see print version here) article by Jenn Metz.

Jeff has some very good thoughts on this, so go read his blog on the subject.


All I hear from Fr Jenkins is justification for knowingly doing something that is inherently not in the best interests of a CATHOLIC higher education institution. Today, we are very good at justifying things that we should not be doing (myself -- no exception -- we are all sinners) , but some dig their heels in deeper when others voice objections, and some recant. It doesn't sound like Fr Jenkins is in the latter category at this time.

AMY, in the combox to Jeff's article, has given contact information, including addresses and phone numbers.

God bless!

Discussion at Catholiccartoonblog website on this cartoon. My response to two:

Livinatodds-

If this were a true 'dialogue' with someone like Fr Jonathan Morris, Fr Frank Pavone, or Fr Thomas Euteneuer sitting beside him in a forum where both sides were presented, including Catholic teaching, so that each would listen, learn, teach, then your view would be acceptable. But this isn't a forum or dialogue. It is a speech where the audience has no input, and there is noone to refute his very obvious and blatantly anti-life stance.

He is working on taking away my conscience rights as a health care provider. He is sending my tax dollars overseas to provide abortions. He is now also opening experimentation on embryos for their stem cells with my tax dollars-- which if you look at a site that is keeping track of the success of stem cell research has yielded NOTHING vs 73 separate diseases/conditions that have been helped dramatically by Adult or Cord blood stem cell research. And, they have now even gone on beyond that where they have found that they are able to get stem cells in other ways.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research is not needed, and there are at least two former proponents that have changed their minds and say now that it isn't worth attempting.

This man has promised to wipe out in one fell swoop everything that we have gained in the 36 yrs since Roe v Wade Doe v Bolton in one fell swoop by signing FOCA as soon as the legislative body can get it to him.

He stands for everything (including legal aspects) that the Church teaches is NOT good, and
N D is giving him an honorary LAW degree!

The invitation alone had gone against the USCCB’s policy against honoring pro-abortion politicians.

Tamtam, the difference between his speaking at N D and elsewhere is that N D is a Catholic university and the others are not. I have no objection to his being invited anyplace else. I can then voice my objection to his policies if I want to, but would recognize the secular universities' rights to have anyone they choose to have speak on any topic that they choose. The difference is ... a Catholic University needs to uphold Catholic values and Catholic teachings.

There has been comparisons to having David Duke speak to NAACP, but this is more comparable to the example used when Phil Donahue and Fr Jonathan Morris were on Fox news the other day. Martha MacCallum asked about having an antisemitic speaker invited to a primarily Jewish university. As she said, it goes against the central core of that university and its students' beliefs.

These students went to N D because it is a prestigious CATHOLIC university. Those values are what should be honored with degrees and commencement speakers, not those that are blatantly anti-Catholic.

March 26, 2009 7:56 PM