She Who Weeps

I have been heartbroken all day in regards to Notre Dame University's decision to allow Barack Hussein Obama to deliver the commencement address at this year's graduation. He will also be given an honorary law degree. For a Catholic university to do this on the heels of Obama's recent decision to allow public funding for abortions, here and abroad, and for human embryos to be destroyed for it's stem cells, is disheartening. This also comes on the heels of the Obama administrations assault on the conscience rights of Catholic health-care professionals. It's as if the Know Nothings have been elected with 54% of the Catholic vote. You can sign a petition in protest at www.notredamescandal.com.

Ralph McInerny, professor of philosophy, at the University of Notre Dame, had this to say in The Corner...

"Bernie Madoff has declined an honorary doctorate in economics from the University of Notre Dame, but all is not lost. Barack Hussein Obama, enabler in chief of abortion, has agreed to speak at the 2009 commencement and to receive an honorary doctorate of law. That abortion and its advocacy violate a primary precept of natural law reinforced by the Catholic Church’s explicit doctrine is a mere bagatelle. Wackos of all kinds will kick up a fuss, of course, but their protest will go unnoticed in South Bend. The pell-mell pursuit of warm and fuzzy Catholicism will continue. How better to defend the faith than to celebrate a man who advocates polishing off babies even after they are born? The newly created Herod Award will be added to the university’s recognition of the chief magistrate. Administrators are hugging themselves with delight at this massive publicity coup. The national championship in football has eluded Notre Dame for many years, but when the president dribbles onto the stage at the great event, the hall will erupt in ecstatic applause; the president, Father Jenkins, will wring his hand; and a final nail will be driven into the coffin of a once-great Catholic university. No one will note nor long remember what Barack Obama says on the occasion. Who listens to commencement addresses? But the Lady atop the golden dome, recalling the flight into Egypt, will exhibit one of her many titles: She who weeps."