Collins Report

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Now that the sound of the standing ovation given to Barack Obama at the grotesque charade in South Bend has died down it’s time for reflection and regrouping.

While over 75 of America’s Catholic bishops condemned Notre Dame for its honoring of our pro abortion, pro POST birth disposal President, that’s little more than 1/3 of these men whose mission is guarding and growing Roman Catholicism in America, the world’s most important Catholic country.

What will these few faithful bishops do now, speak out or remain silent to go along/ get along?

Catholics and pro lifers of every persuasion are waiting for answers.

It’s time for faithful Catholic bishops to use the Notre Dame scandal as a rallying point; a “bloody shirt.”

The “bloody shirt” concept may have sinister connotations, but that actually makes it a perfect rallying cry for calls for a new respect for Catholic teachings on life.

Since whatever is said by the faithful bishops about this scandal will be twisted distorted and misquoted anyway, why not give Father Jenkins and his secular humanist media supporters something to really quote?

Calling Obama’s speech a “bloody shirt” and using it as a line in the sand to force Jenkinsist Catholics to decide their own fate will keep the issue alive and make more people choose a side.

The “bloody shirt” of Notre Dame could ignite a media “righteous indignation” like the one that drove them to repeat the “Willie Horton” story over and over until all of voting America had heard of it and decided against Dukakis.

This opportunity must not be missed by America’s Catholic bishops. Catholics must be compelled to think through the meaning of being “pro choice” when a monster is in the White House. Americans want to choose life, the bishops must help them.

Jenkins’ supporters

Off campus one of Father Jenkins’ fans, a member of “Abortion on demand”, made this statement, “If women don’t have a right to decide if they have a child, women aren’t free. We need to expand abortion access and abortion rights and lift the stigma. Fetuses are not babies and women are not incubators.”

Certainly Father Jenkins would not be proud to stand with her, but with his record who knows?

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