The Lourdes Grotto on the Notre Dame campus has been reopened after a fire at the end of July.
Some More Noted "Catholics" - NOT
Russ Feingold—who was stridently pro-abortion while a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin—was hired in January to teach at Catholic Marquette University.
Sister Carol Keehan—the Catholic Health Association president who undermined the U.S. bishops on Obamacare, then clashed with Bishop Olmstead over an abortion at a CHA hospital —remains on the Board of Trustees for Catholic St. John's University (New York) and the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota). Sister Keehan has also been a featured lecturer or commencement speaker at several Catholic colleges and universities in the past year.
Next week, Boston College Law School plans to celebrate the "life and work" of Jesuit Father Robert Drinan—a former U.S. Congressman who championed abortion rights and federal funding for abortion.
WHAT'S WRONG HERE?
ND's president Jenkins marched in Washington's Roe v. Wade Pro-Life Rally Jan. 24 at the same time that he continues to prosecute the "ND88," those who dared to "trespass" on the ND campus in peaceful protest against Jenkins awarding an honorary doctorate to the nation's most committed pro-abortionist, Barack Obama.
Hypocrisy running rampant!
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1/12/11 : Govt. to Decide if a College is "Catholic."
ND's President Jenkins continues to do the CYA two-step on Lizzie Seeberg suicide.
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Notre Dame's Board has put up a "bureaucratic brick wall," says the Chicago Tribune (December 19, 2010). Read what it has to say about the Rev. John Jenkins and the Board of Fellows on the Lizzie Seeberg case. Click here.
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The date is May 17, 2009. Father Bill Miscamble CSC says it all.
Go to http://sycamoretrust.org/webinar/
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"Our 'Health Care Reform,' enacted with the decisive support of Catholic members of both houses of Congress, may be the Enabling Act of our time in the control it cedes to government over the lives of the people."
(Comments 5-15-10 at Christendom College by Dr. Charles E. Rice, Professor Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame's Law School.)
"We are living through a transformation of our federal government. A one-party regime, the leader of which was elected with 54 percent of the Catholic vote, is substituting for the free economy and limited government a centralized command system of potentially unlimited jurisdiction and power. Its takeover of health care, against the manifest will of the people, not only funds elective abortions and endangers the elderly and conscience rights. It was enacted in disregard of legislative process and by a level of bribery, coercion and deception that was as open as it was unprecedented.
"To find a comparable example of the rapid concentration of executive power by a legally installed regime, we have to go back to 1933. Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor on January 30. Over the next few weeks he consolidated his power. The decisive event was the Reichstag’s approval of the Enabling Act on March 23, 1933, by which it ceded full and irrevocable powers to Hitler. That was the point of no return. The Enabling Act received the needed two-thirds vote only because it was supported by the Catholic party, the Centre Party. Our “Health Care Reform,” enacted with the decisive support of Catholic members of both houses of Congress, may be the Enabling Act of our time in the control it cedes to government over the lives of the people. It includes the federal takeover of student aid. What do student loans have to do with health care? The common denominator is control. No student will be able to get a federally guaranteed educational loan without the consent of a federal bureaucrat. This opens the way to make political loyalty a test for educational advancement, as it was in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This confirms the wisdom of Christendom’s decision to forego all federal aid."
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Thomas More Society’s defense of the ND88 gets more media attention
Posted by Thomas More Society (November 9, 2010)
In its November 2010 issue, leading Catholic monthly magazine the New Oxford Review has published an article about the Thomas More Society’s defense of the ND88—men and women, including a priest and a nun, who were arrested, jailed and are being prosecuted for daring to step onto Notre Dame’s campus in May 2009, in prayerful, peaceful protest against the honors the University bestowed on pro-abortion President Barack Obama. The article bears the ominous title, “A Showdown for the Ages,” and reads:
"If Notre Dame is willing to let the cases go to trial, then we’d better brace ourselves for an epic showdown—one whose impact will reverberate throughout the American Catholic Church."
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From today's New York Times: BALTIMORE (AP) Nov. 16, 2010 ——In an upset, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan elected president Tuesday of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, defeating a vice president who had been widely expected to win the job.
It is the first time since the 1960s that a sitting vice president was on the ballot for president and lost. It follows protests by some conservative Catholics against the vice president, Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas. Dolan received 54 percent of the vote to 46 percent for Kicanas on the third round of balloting. Kicanas has served as vice president for a three-year term which ends this week...
...A growing number of bishops have taken a more aggressive approach, publicly denying Holy Communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion rights, warning Catholic voters they should never vote for a candidate who supports abortion rights under any circumstances and reining in prominent dissenters in their dioceses.
Kicanas has not denied Communion to any Catholic politicians and rejected calls to punish the president of the University of Notre Dame for honoring President Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights. Kicanas instead urged bishops and Catholic university presidents to start a discussion about their differences.
(See also http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/nov/10111204.html)
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NEW NOVEL HAS BERNARDS TOWNSHIP NJ ROOTS (Click to see Story)
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Catholics Cannot Vote for Political Candidates Who Support a Right to Abortion, Says Vatican's Chief Justice
Monday, November 01, 2010
By Chris Johnson
(CNSNews.com) – Catholics cannot vote for political candidates who support a right to abortion, said Cardinal-designate Raymond Burke, head of the highest court at the Vatican and the archbishop emeritus of St. Louis, Missouri.
“No, you can never vote for someone who favors absolutely what’s called the right to choice of a woman to destroy the human life in her womb or the right to a procured abortion,” said Burke in a recent interview with the group Catholic Action for Faith and Family. ________________
The Cardinal Newman Society - Urgent Notice (October 29, 2010)
The "poster boy" for dissent on Catholic college campuses—Father Charles Curran—has emerged from his exile to launch a pre-election assault against the Catholic Church's PRO-LIFE efforts.
In a highly publicized speech yesterday, Father Curran attacked the Church's rationale that abortion must be illegal because it is "intrinsically evil" and claimed that Catholic voters should not give priority to abortion over issues like health care.
Curran provoked a public response from Dallas Bishop Kevin Farrell, who said that "on the taking of innocent human life there is no room for ambiguity."
And Curran's speech directly contradicted the Vatican's Cardinal-designate Raymond Burke, who said in an interview also released yesterday:
"You can never vote for someone who favors absolutely the right to choice of a woman to destroy a human life in her womb or the right to a procured abortion." _______________________
(From the Cardinal Newman Society Blog, 10-27-10)
Catholic Profs Muddy Waters of Catholic Voting Principles
University of Notre Dame theology(!) professor M. Cathleen Kaveny penned an essay recently for the Jesuit publication America in which she brings to the front-burner the question of “May a good Catholic vote for a political candidate who is pro-choice?” In her analysis of the question she writes:
We cannot simply set 1.5 million annual abortions on the negative side of the equation as if they are entirely caused by one vote. A single vote for a pro-choice politician is not likely to make any significant difference to any particular woman’s decision for or against abortion, given that abortion is currently a constitutionally protected right in this country. In fact, we might well judge that voting for a candidate who supports a large safety net for mothers and dependent children would be a better way to increase the number of children brought to term, especially at the state level.
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Fired Employee Bill Kirk to Testify at "ND88" Trial
(From the Irish Rover)
In an upcoming deposition, lead defense attorney Thomas Dixon plans to ask former associate vice president for student affairs Bill Kirk why he was fired. Dixon represents the “ND 88,” a group of demonstrators who were arrested for protesting President Obama’s visit to Notre Dame in May 2009.
In a September 22 hearing, Judge Michael P. Scopelitis denied Notre Dame’s motion to quash the deposition of Kirk. He also denied Dixon’s request that Notre Dame produce any documents that, as the order states, “discuss, deal with or delineate [Kirk’s] employment status with the University of Notre Dame or any changes thereto.”
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Pro Life? The FBI is Watching You...
On August 25, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security hosted a joint training session on terrorism conducted by Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation and the Feminist Majority Foundation. The "terrorists" they are focused on have committed only one crime: they oppose abortion, the taking of unborn life.
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University Presses Prosecution of ND88
(From the student Observer Sept. 30, 2010)
A St. Joseph County judge is allowing the deposition of former associate vice president for Residence Life Bill Kirk in the case of 88 protesters, known as the "ND 88," who were arrested for trespassing on campus during President Barack Obama's visit in May 2009.
Judge Michael Scopelitis overruled a motion by the prosecution to prevent the subpoena of Kirk's testimony, but did not allow the defense access to documents regarding Kirk's employment status at the University, according to St. Joseph County Superior Court documents filed Sept. 20.
"The deposition of Bill Kirk was contested because much of the information the defendant sought related to Mr. Kirk's departure from the Office of Student Affairs, which is irrelevant to the trespass cases," University spokesman Dennis Brown said.
Kirk's position as associate vice president was eliminated this summer. Vice President for Student Affairs Fr. Thomas Doyle told The Observer earlier this month that Kirk's position was removed as a result of restructuring in the Office of Student Affairs.
During the demonstrations protesting Obama's visit, Kirk oversaw the Notre Dame Security Police (NDSP) and was in charge of approving campus demonstrations.
The court order stipulates that the defense can ask Kirk why he no longer holds his administrative position at the University, but Kirk is not required to bring documents that deal with his employment status at Notre Dame.
The court document states that the Court reviewed Kirk's and the University's confidential separation agreement and found that it says nothing related to the criminal proceedings. Scopelitis ruled that Kirk is not obligated to disclose the document.
The Thomas More Society, a pro-life law center, is overseeing the trials of the 88 protesters, who are being charged with criminal trespass.
A Thomas More Society press release states that the defense is seeking testimony from Kirk in order to ask questions about different treatment given to protesters involved in various protests on campus.
The defense has argued that the ND 88 were subject to "viewpoint discrimination," which the defense is claiming is a violation of the First Amendment, according to the release. ND 88 attorneys contend that the University did not file charges against protestors in past demonstrations.
In a statement released in April, University President Fr. John Jenkins said NDSP gave the protesters several warnings to disperse, as the University has clear rules for campus demonstrations.
"Some have incorrectly suggested that having the protestors arrested means we are hostile to the pro-life position. But, the University cannot have one set of rules for causes we oppose, and another more lenient set of rules for causes we support. We have one consistent set of rules for demonstrations on campus - no matter what the cause," Jenkins said in the statement.
The student handbook, du Lac, states that campus demonstrations must be peaceful, non-disruptive and registered in writing with the associate vice president of Residence Life - who was Kirk at the time.
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(Earlier story below)
SOUTH BEND, Indiana, September 2, 2010 http://www.lifesitenews.com
A top pro-life professor at the University of Notre Dame is calling into question the motives of the university after Bill Kirk, a long-time member of the Notre Dame community and the only administration member to join a protest against President Obama's appearance on campus, was abruptly terminated.
In May 2009, Kirk boycotted the official graduation ceremony at which President Obama was giving the commencement address and receiving an honorary law degree, and instead attended an alternate graduation ceremony held by pro-life graduates protesting Obama. Bishop John D'Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, whose diocese includes the campus, also opted to attend the alternate ceremony.
The Observer newspaper reported Thursday that Father Tom Doyle, Notre Dame's new Vice-President for Student Affairs, had terminated Kirk from his position as Associate Vice-President for Residence Life.
Doyle praised Kirk's "thoughtful and caring" service as Student Affairs administrator, but said he had been fired "in anticipation of a restructuring that I want to do."
A Notre Dame spokesman refused to comment to LifeSiteNews.com about the reasons behind Kirk's termination, saying only that the university does not discuss personnel issues.
But Notre Dame philosophy professor David Solomon, the founder and director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, said in http://wwww.irishrover.net/archives/399>column published in The Rover that he sees a connection between Kirk's "removal from office" and what he called "the background of other events at Notre Dame that inevitably raised questions about its real motivation."
Solomon suggested that Kirk's insistence on maintaining school-wide disciplinary standards for Notre Dame football athletes helped precipitate the move. However, the professor also said the news appears to confirm fears that Kirk's stand against the highly controversial honor to Obama would prove fatal.
"At the time Bill took part in the NDResponse rally, many people commented on the courage it took for him to stand with his wife and other witnesses to this protest of Notre Dame's decision to award President Obama an honorary degree. I personally discounted these worries, believing that the Notre Dame administration would admire him for his principled stand on a matter so close to the Catholic heart of Notre Dame, even if they disagreed with his particular action," wrote Solomon.
Since the administration welcomed Obama's own "sharp dissent from and attack on central Catholic teaching on life," he continued, "It seemed only reasonable that they would equally welcome dissent from university policy by such a loyal Catholic and member of the Notre Dame family as Bill Kirk" especially when his dissent was made in the name of the Catholic principles at Notre Dame's heart and in the company of his bishop.
"Perhaps, alas, there was reason for Bill Kirk to be worried about his participation in NDResponse after all."
The professor said Kirk's treatment would undoubtedly have "a chilling effect" on un-tenured administrators in public policy and moral debates on campus. He noted that "a number of other administrators have told me that in light of Bill Kirk's treatment, they will in the future keep their heads down rather than dissent from the policies of the central administration." "It will be tragic if these pressures toward uniformity become a permanent feature of Notre Dame life," he wrote.
Solomon said that what he termed the "callousness and brutal insensitivity" of Kirk's termination has had "the greatest impact" on the close-knit Notre Dame community: Kirk and his wife Elizabeth, who have already adopted two young children, were in the process of adopting a third at the time of the firing.
The professor contrasted the situation with the magnanimity shown by former Notre Dame President Rev. Ted Hesburgh to Ralph McInerny decades ago when, as an assistant philosophy professor, McInerny received monetary help as he struggled to make ends meet following the tragic death of his 4-year-old son from a brain tumor.
"It may be that in an era when Notre Dame has become more of a brand and less of a community, such actions are no longer possible and that those of us who long for them are simply being naive," wrote Solomon.
"If so, it is surely a great loss."
The prestigious Catholic university has been widely criticized for its handling of other aspects of the Obama controversy as well. Notre Dame president Rev. John Jenkins continues to refuse to request leniency for 88 pro-life witnesses arrested for peacefully protesting Obama's presence on campus, while pro-Obama and pro-Notre Dame protesters were allowed to roam free. Several pro-life leaders have unsuccessfully urged Jenkins to intervene for the pro-lifers, who continue to face up to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine under prosecution by St. Joseph County.
See also further details and discussion here (Sycamore Trust site)
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NOW IT'S SETON HALL!
The College of my father, grandfather and uncles - - gone to hell
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Like putting a fox in charge of a chicken coop, Seton Hall University is allowing a pro-homosexual professor to give a course on “The Politics of Gay Marriage.”
When plans for the anti-Catholic course were first announced at the diocesan university, the Most Reverend John J. Myers, Archbishop of Newark, responded. “This proposed course seeks to promote as legitimate a train of thought that is contrary to what the Church teaches. As a result, the course is not in synch with Catholic teaching,” he stated. However, despite the archbishop’s misgivings the course was not stopped.
Is Seton Hall Training a New Generation of Pro-homosexual Activists?
According to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, the undergraduate course requires students to purchase a book written by pro-homosexual state senators Raymond Lesniak (D-Union) and Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen) titled: “What’s Love Got To Do With It? The Case for Same-Sex Marriage.” Both of the authors sponsored a bill in New Jersey to legalize same-sex “marriage.”
And who teaches the course? Political science professor W. King Mott, a pro-homosexual activist whose affiliation with Lambda Legal, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Human Rights Campaign is mentioned on Seton Hall University’s web site.
Blatant Anti-Catholic Bias
Mott’s anti-Catholic bias is clear: “Efforts to condemn the [homosexual] culture itself as Pope John Paul II has done in recent encyclicals only illustrate the futility of orthodoxy in general and the papacy in particular,” he wrote.
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The Task Force on Supporting the Choice for Life, which ended its service in May, recommended to Notre Dame president Fr. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., the creation of structures to implement its previous recommendations and to continue its work. Fr. Jenkins then created the position of coordinator for university life initiatives and appointed 2010 Notre Dame graduate Mary K. Daly to the post. Daly served as president of Notre Dame Right for Life and was a spokeswoman for NDResponse, a coalition opposed to the honoring of President Barack Obama. She will coordinate present efforts to implement the task force’s recommendations and will serve as a liaison between various university departments and offices to advance collaboration on life issues. According to the University of Notre Dame, she will also seek ways to “broaden and deepen respect for the sanctity of life” at the university and beyond.
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