If you plunged your family into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt to send your son or daughter to Notre Dame thinking your hard earned money would get your child a truly Catholic education this will disappoint and infuriate you.

If the knot in your stomach from Barack Obama’s selection as last spring’s commencement speaker is just now beginning to loosen up hang on to your blood pressure medicine here comes another anti Catholic stunt from Father John Jenkins the school’s president.
Notre Dame, the University of Our Lady mind you, has used student organization funds to finance a trip for five of its students to Washington DC for a rally supporting Gay “marriage” a practice which directly violates the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.

Apparently Father Jenkins feels he hasn’t made his hatred for the teachings of the Catholic Church clear enough. Having a commencement speaker who supports allowing miracle abortion surviving infants to die in a broom closet because abortion is more sacred to him than life, wasn’t sick and perverted enough for Father Jenkins.

Sticking his finger in your eye and laughing

The Obama stunt should have signaled Notre Dame’s surrender of any claim to being a Catholic university. The little school in South Bend is now no more Catholic than U. Wisconsin at Madison.

Father Jenkins must be starting his own religion. He is certainly close to being recognized as the head of a “Jenkinsist” Catholic church that caters to the secular world while making fools of those who support his school.

Father Patrick J. Reilly, President of the Cardinal Newman Society challenged this grotesque move with a penetrating question, “What university seeking to reassure families of its Catholic identity would pay for students to attack the family and oppose Catholic teachings on marriage?”

Even the so-called “Progressives” know better

Members of Notre Dame’s Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) applied to the Student Activities Office for the necessary funding for the trip. The PSA president was shocked that the “pro forma” request was approved and observed, “The fact that we were University-approved was surprising but it was a wonderful surprise. The University hasn’t always been entirely receptive in the past.” Apparently even the PSA president recognized this was a violation of Roman Catholic teaching and was “surprised” it was approved. Too bad Father Jenkins didn’t feel the same way.

Is Father Jenkins starting his own religion, a sort of “roll- your-own” Catholicism that Obama’s thugs will make into the face of the American Catholic Church?

This day in history October 22

1836 Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.

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Adolph Hitler had his Vichy French and boot licking quislings throughout Nazi Europe, but he was always wary of and hated Catholics because they refused to knuckle under to his lies. Hitler was right about Catholics. It was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a member of Germany’s Roman Catholic nobility, who led the effort to kill him in July 1944.

To counter the Catholic Church Hitler actually created a Nazi Church and many non Catholic Christian Churchmen went along with the sham.

Barack Obama is many things but not a fool. He recognizes the real Catholic Church, whose members voted against him, is the last remaining obstacle to his Marxist style total control of our lives.

He can not directly shut down the real Catholic Church. That would be a time consuming, counterproductive losing proposition and frankly quite unnecessary.

Obama is way too smart to stir up resistance among real Catholics with an overt move toward shutting down the real Catholic Church.
He can’t take over the real Catholic Church so he’s starting his own Church, the Jenkinsist Catholic Church. He knows the media will turn its back on the real Catholic Church and always go to Jenkinsist Catholics for comments knowing what answers they will give.

Obama’s Jenkinsist Catholics will claim to be Catholic just as Frances Kissling of Catholics For a Free Choice claims to be a real Catholic. Eventually the media will only interview Jenkinsist bishops, and real Catholic bishops will be ignored.

The beauty of it all is breathtaking. The more real Catholic bishops demand adherence to real Catholicism the more Jenkinsist Catholics will appear. It will be like trying to pour the ocean into a hole on the beach.

Obama’s actions/ appointments make him the most anti real Catholic president ever. More on this tomorrow.

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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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We knew they would come. The lies and half truths about Barack Obama’s planned speech at next Sunday’s graduation ceremony at Notre Dame are intensifying. Beth Fouhy of the AP brings us the latest pack of lies half truths and omissions. She has produced yet another lock step bouquet to be placed on the alter of secular humanism which can not be allowed to stand unchallenged.

Fouhy writes Catholics and pro-lifers are angry at Notre Dame’s invitation to Obama because;

“They cite his support for abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research, and his repeal of a policy that denied federal dollars to international relief organizations that provide abortions or abortion-related information. They remain angry with Obama’s support for legislation that would prohibit state and local governments from interfering with a woman’s right to obtain an abortion.”

What this cynical cheerleader for the liberals’ culture of death has conveniently omitted is that we recognize Obama’s inherent evil proved by his vigorous efforts to pass a law instructing Illinois’s hospitals to starve to death BORN INFANTS who miraculously survived botched abortions.

This is our core objection and Fouhy knows it. She omitted this gruesome truth to portray us as unsophisticated simpletons unaccustomed to dialogue in “the real world” of the San Francesco progressive.

Fouhy knows she could not write about the real Obama. She knows a description of his bill mandating infanticide of BORN INFANTS who’s lives “violated the intention of the abortion” would never be printed.

Of course abortions are a daily evils to be fought; of course embryonic stem cell research is a “slippery slope” way for liberal ogres to kill more innocent infants, but cynically elevating them to parity with our outrage over infanticide is intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt.

Calling Biden “an observant Catholic” is laughable. Just look at the truth. No one who has been barred from receiving Holy Communion in his own diocese, as Joe Biden has, can in any sense of the phrase be described as “an observant Catholic” This is only true in the liberal fantasy world where the media is invited to attend the wedding of a Pope.

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The number of Catholics who don’t want Barack Obama to speak at Notre Dame’s May 17th graduation ceremony is growing and has now reached the tipping point.

A new Rasmussen survey shows that by more than 2 to 1 (60% to 25%) Catholics don’t want Obama to speak at Notre Dame. Only 19% had no opinion. Catholics know the issue and don’t want him there.

Because of the particulars of this situation it’s safe to assume Catholics object to Obama’s appearance at “America’s Catholic University” because of his grotesque position on POST BIRTH disposal of infants who miraculously survived abortions. You don’t get 60% of Catholics objecting to a run of the mill liberal Democrat abortion supporter. Democrat support for abortion is a given.

This isn’t just about abortion or the laughable suggestion that Catholics don’t want Obama speaking at Notre Dame because he supports “stem cell research.” Instead Catholics are taking a well considered step toward confronting the evil Obama represents.

At a rate of 60% Catholics don’t want Obama to receive an honorary Law degree from Notre Dame. That’s more than twice the number who approve of the honor.

When juxtaposed, Rasmussen’s and Gallup’s new poll results make one wonder who’s right and who’s wrong about Catholic attitudes toward Obama.

Gallup’s new poll found that 67% of Catholics favored Barack Obama. This begs two questions: what if any issues did Gallup’s Catholics have in mind when two out of three expressed approval of Obama? Moreover, since November what issues, that Catholics care about, has Obama been good on that would explain the increased Catholic approval ratings from 54% to 67%?

Someone’s research is faulty. Someone has this issue seriously wrong. As May 17th gets closer we will see who has it right.

Based on the more than 340,000 petition signatures collected by those against Obama’s Notre Dame speech, the smart bet is that Rasmussen has it right.

This is a growing problem for Father Jenkins and his school. While Obama will do his damage and walk away largely untouched, Notre Dame will suffer for this decision for years to come. It will never again be seen as “America’s Catholic University” by many people, some of whom will be alums who will no longer donate. In the end Notre Dame will be left with its reputation in tatters and its fundraising goals ever so much harder to reach.

Don’t bet on Barack Obama being classy enough to back out with some transparent excuse. He is after all, no George Bush.

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