Chicago's vaunted Cardinal George has his good sides and his bad sides, and as a catholic myself I find many things the church does not to my liking but yet the church is the church and isn't really supposed to be right on everything and I certainly know I'm not, and another thing I know is that there is indeed a God and I'm not him nor is George but he's about as close as we mere mortals can be.As I explained in a post earlier in the week, I am actively participating in the rejection of the Obama invitation to Notre Dame University of which my father is a proud alumnus of 1964, and most vehemently reject the issuance of the honorary law degree they are bestowing upon the most radical left wing human abortionist and constitutional abortionist we've ever seen in the Oval Office.
This entire episode is a scar on the proud and esteemed university, which will cost in millions upon millions of grants and donations from the former student alumni, who make up a a large portion of the world's most successful people, that I can guarantee.
And that's an awfully high price to pay for future student's educations to kiss the half black, half white backside of a man who has no respect for the most helpless of humanity, which should preclude him from the honorary degree, even if at least allowed to appear as the POTUS out of respect for the office he's holding even though this man has no respect for that man.
George stuck with the right position on this issue and for that I am proud of him as our Chicago Cardinal...
Cardinal George blasts ND's Obama invitation
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES / 44: Barack Obama: "Cardinal Francis George called the University of Notre Dame’s decision to invite President Obama to speak at its commencement an “extreme embarrassment” to Catholics.
“It is clear that Notre Dame didn’t understand what it means to be Catholic when they issued this invitation,” George said Sunday while speaking at a conference hosted by the archdiocese’s Respect Life office in Rosemont."
In a video of George’s speech posted Wednesday on lifesitenews.com, George calls Notre Dame “the flagship Catholic university” and said that it has “brought extreme embarrassment to many, many people who are Catholic.”
George joins Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, and bishops from South Bend, Newark and Austin, among others, in speaking out against Obama’s commencement speech.
The university’s invitation to Obama follows a long-standing university tradition of inviting the sitting president to speak at graduation. Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush all spoke at Notre Dame commencement ceremonies.
But Obama’s positions on embryonic stem cell research and abortion have caused a firestorm of protest over his planned May 17 speech at the Catholic university.
Susan Burritt, spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Chicago, said today that George would have no additional comments on the president’s speech at Notre Dame.
She said George has no authority over the prestigious South Bend, Ind. university in his role as archbishop or as head of the U.S. Conference on Catholic Bishops.
The Chicago archdiocese switchboards are lighting up with calls regarding the controversy. She said all callers are given contact information for the chairman of Notre Dame’s board of trustees — the provincial supervisor for the Holy Cross order of priests — which runs Notre Dame, and for the Congregation for Catholic Education in Rome.
Notre Dame’s president, the Rev. John Jenkins, previously said the university does not condone all of the president’s policies. Still, he said it’s valuable to engage in conversation and said there are no plans to rescind the invitation.
George said in his weekend speech that the office of the U.S. president deserves “some respect, no matter who is holding it.” He also said the school shouldn’t rescind the invitation.
“You just don’t do that,” he said.
Why do we, and not just Catholics have to give up, or give in to our principles? We have given up dearly in the last decades. The left control all aspects of our children's eduction. To me it is almost like saying "We are against radical abortion policies... but just this once"
ReplyDeleteYou can say that again Sharon, and I'm sick of it too.
ReplyDeleteWhen my father went to Notre dame they didnt even allow women, and minorities couldn't afford it even if they wanted to go to this expensive all white catholic school.
Then women were allowed, which is a good thing and then it's hard to say this right, but they lowered academic standards across the board to allow minorities to attend, mostly to remain athletically competitive for the millions of dollars all schools milk for which is sadly a necessary evil in this era
since then it's gays,lesbians, martians and morons and where does it all end?
Most arent against the president part of him being there (I am however) it's that fricking honorary degree which is supposed to mean "we're behind your positions on the law and such" and that translates to tacit approval of his deadly abortion stance...
God help us all fight this crap until the end Sharon, thanks...