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I imagine that there will be video clips available during the day, reporting on the protests so I will do my best to post any links that come my way – perhaps Torkay will keep us informed as the day goes on.
It has impressed me greatly, receiving emails from colleagues in the Catholic Media Coalition in America, (Catholic Truth is part of the CMC) that Catholics from all over America are making the effort to go to Notre Dame to protest today.
It is shocking to think, though, that it was the Catholic vote that got Obama into office.
Anyway, let’s keep the rightly protesting American Catholics in our prayers and thoughts today, that the protests bear fruit in some way – if only to help make reparation for those disgraceful Catholic votes that raised this man and his immoral policies to the highest office in the USA.
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Further proof, Editor, that the Catholic world is schizophrenic. I doubt that any Catholic who voted for this barbarian has seen the light since he took office. It’s most certainly those who saw the danger all along who will protest.
I won’t be home that much tomorrow – it’s my big pubbing and clubbing day – but I’ll keep an eye out for video clips. In the meantime, here’s one of Alan Keyes, former US Ambassador, Catholic, and conservative, protesting and being arrested at ND last week while praying the Rosary. I believe those are mock-ups of aborted babies in those strollers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc2W705UBM8
God bless them for their bravery. This scene will be repeated countless times and on much larger scales in the years to come.
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Who actually funds Notre Dame? No smart comments now, Editor, about not reading the small print etc…… I read quite a bit in the links and watched the video but I still don’t understand the way that university works. I mean, since it Catholic, does it not come under the authority of the Bishop? Bishop Burke was magnificent and I wish there were more like him but, he was only doing his job after all.
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That is a good question, semperfidelis, and to be honest I don’t know the answer. Had to happen eventually…
I would imagine that the students’ fees and Church would combine to fund a Catholic university like Notre Dame, but not sure.
Another key point you’ve made, semperfidelis, is that Archbishop Burke was doing no more than his episcopal duty. Tells you something when this is headline news. Imagine if we saw a headline “Doctor Diagnosis Illness Correctly” or similar, we’d think the world had gone mad.
Torkay, thanks for posting the video link to the arrest of Dr Alan Keyes and the other prolifers. It was salutary to watch their peaceful, prayerful protest and to see their dignity when confronted and arrested by the police…
…on a Catholic university campus! Dedicated to Notre Dame – Our Lady! Un-truly-believable. I need to find another response to all this scandal but until I do, let me repeat – you just could not make this stuff up…
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semperfidelis
Notre Dame comes under the jurisdiction of Bishop John D’Arcy of South Bend, Indiana. Here is a letter he issued about this scandal in April:
http://www.diocesefwsb.org/COMMUNICATIONS/statements.htm
(PS – Bishop D’Arcy is one of the good guys)
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I’ve just received this link to an article published a little while ago.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/45250867.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUzyaUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7DYaGEP7vDEh7P:DiUsWhat we really want to keep an eye out for though, is the events at the time of the speech – I would imagine that there will be TV coverage of any protesters. I don’t know what time the commencement speech is scheduled over there and we need to remember the time difference, but I imagine it will be afternoon over there/evening over here, when Obama’s talk is delivered.
I am particularly interested in the Notre Dame situation and have been all the way through, because I just cannot imagine anything like the protests happening here which are happening over in the USA, whether from bishops or laity.
I’d love to be proved wrong but I just think of the ongoing scandal of the Father Monaghan Radio Show every weekend on Radio Forth and despite all the publicity about the dreadful advice he has given in his role as Agony Uncle, there has not been a peep of protest, except from Catholic Truth. And his bishop (Cardinal O’Brien) has consistently supported him.
So the Notre Dame scandal has sharply highlighted the difference between the two episcopates and laity – to the credit of the USA and the shame of Scotland.
Fox News, here I come…
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I cannot understand why the Vatican or the bishops haven’t intervened and moved this immoral priest from his position. Notre Dame has already lost millions of dollars in funding, and the bishops of America have roundly condemned the invitation to Obama. Why can’t they act against this rebel priest? Is the bishop not his lawful superior? This is classic Post-Vatican II hierarchical leadership, e.g., it’s minus Catholic action.
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Here’s the complete Commencement schedule:
http://commencement.nd.edu/commencement-weekend/schedule-of-events/
Scroll down to the bottom: the ceremony in question is from 2-4:00 (procession at 1:15), so 7-9:00 “Scottish Savings Time.” Get all your pubbing and clubbing in before 7, Editor!
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Ath
Apparently “dialogue” has replaced action….
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Ahah!
Here is a LIVE STREAM of Commencement, beginning at 12:45 our time.
http://commencement.nd.edu/commencement-weekend/commencement-videos/
Editor et al, I forgot that Indiana is an hour behind us, so add SIX hours to these times, not 5, and I apologize for needing remedial work in basic arithmetic (I didn’t have the privilege of being home-schooled by Editor you know).
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Yes Torkay, this “dialogue” is diabolical!
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Thanks for the live stream, Torkay. I’ve just been watching the interviews on Fox News, where they interviewed, amongst others, one of the boycotting graduates. Even among the students who are going ahead with their graduation, protesters will wear a specially designed logo to demonstrate their objection to the Obama invitation.
I came in to post this, for interest. Do you know anything about the priest being arrested, Torkay?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/17/notre-dames-standing-catholics-risk/Athanasius, I was under the impression that once this event is over, action will be taken against both Fr Jenkins and the university in the sense that the Bishops are looking at its status as a Catholic university. Can’t remember where I read this, although the headline in the linked article here supports the idea which I have gleaned from somewhere in the mountain of stuff I’ve been receiving on this by email. I’m pretty certain these are the facts. So, I hope I’m not wrong about the American bishops – it seems that they do mean business over this.
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editor
I didn’t know the bishops were planning to take action after the event, I just wish they would exercise their rightful authority and take action before it happens.
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Does anyone think any of our bishops match up to Archbishop Burke?
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Petrus
None of them even come close.
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Absolutely correct, Athanasius. The bishops should have acted before the event. I should have said that in my post above instead of letting you beat me to it. Will I EVER learn????
I hope that the pressure is kept up on the priest who organised this scandal – Fr John Jenkins. He clearly has a brass neck to have stuck this one out.
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How old is Archbishop Burke? Any sign of him being made a Cardinal?
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I was really impressed with the video of the prolifers being arrested on the ND campus. Compare that with the gay rights protest in Moscow with all the fighting etc.
I think Archbishop Burke has been moved to the Vatican from his American diocese, so I suppose he will be made a cardinal one day, and we can always live in hope, Petrus!
Torkay, I happen to know that editor’s weak point is arithmetic, so you are OK there!
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Perhaps he is papabile?
I’m being a bit mischevious here, forgive me.
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He’s the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura!
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Petrus
Does this mean he can now sign his own Apostolic mandate?? Now whose being mischevious????????
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Very good, Athanasius. I like that one.
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Petrus
Couldn’t resist!! Bad Athanasius!
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Editor
Here are a couple of links about Father Norman Weslin, the priest you asked about at 4:32. He is apparently the founder of an anti-abortion group of activists known as the Lambs of Christ.
http://www.priestsforlife.org/media/weslin.htm
http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2002Feb/feb13lif.htm
Hey guys, the live ND feed is running…………
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Hah – the band is playing “For All the Saints”…..they should be playing ‘Ain’t That a Shame.” (for you Fats Domino fans)
Did you notice that today’s Epistle is for Father Jenkins?
“Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves…”
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Jacinta,
Thanks for the heads up on Editor’s arithmetic skills. So THAT’s why she didn’t know the population of Glasgow!
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Torkay
Is it really true that 49% of American Catholics agree that abortion should be legal?
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Well, I watched Fox News live and was really impressed with Randall Terry of Operation Rescue. He made very short work of Father Jonathan Morris who, although he said the right things about abortion, was of the ‘wet’ variety in that he expressed his reservations about the tactics of certain prolife groups. Then the interviewer announced that Terry was on the phone and – WOW!
Randall Terry went straight for Fr Morris’s jugular. He rightly pointed out that none of the social advances hailed as wonderful breakthroughs in our time, came about without confrontational tactics, not the end of slavery, women’s vote etc and that Barack Obama would not have been able to become President of the USA but for the confrontational tactics of the civil rights protesters. Brilliant.
That unthinking criticism (which is levelled at Catholic Truth all the time, incidentally) that “we agree with what you say but we don’t like your methods” is just plain stupid. It is nothing more than a weak excuse for apathy. Randall Terry said so beautifully. I’m sure that interview must be available online but I’ve tried and failed to find it. If anyone else can post the link, that would be great. His comments about the bishops’ negligence is spot on. As he said, every bishop in the USA should have been present at that protest.
Fr Jenkins is, it would appear, a cunning guy. A fixed smile and a smooth speech – all, of course, about the Church’s “mission” to make the world a better place. I could have written it for him myself, I’ve heard it so often. He kept that fixed smile in place as he worked up to a statement in support of Catholic teaching on abortion and stem cell research (nothing about the Church’s teaching on homosexuality, notice) and then waited for the predictable massive round of applause. Big deal. What, did anybody think he going to say he really didn’t support Catholic teaching on abortion? Words are cheap.
And Obama himself is one very clever man. After building up the Catholic Church and Notre Dame, he dealt a deadly blow with his claim that “the irony of Faith is that it necessarily admits doubt” (as near, I’m certain, to his actual words, if not the actual words).
So, there you have it; the class of 2009 from Our Lady’s Catholic University start their young adult lives having been misled into the false belief that Faith admits doubt, whereas to deliberately doubt what God has revealed, is a grave sin.
Pray for the smug Fr Jenkins. I had a clear feeling watching and listening to him, that he is going to need all the prayers he can get.
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I have just watched the live stream of Obama addressing Notre Dame class of 2009 and, boy, is he a sweet-talker!
Fr. Jenkins introduced him with a grovelling litany of praises to great applause. Obama swaggered to the podium full of self confidence, or was it arrogance?
He’s a clever so and so, is Mr. Obama, mentioning how Catholics had influenced him in his early days through their mutual concern for the disadvantaged (although obviously not sufficiently to convert him!). He spoke of his great admiration for the late Cardinal Bernardin, “a man of dialogue”, who he called “a saintly man.” He spoke of Original Sin as being at the root of all the troubles afflicting mankind. For this softening up of his Catholic audience he received rapturous applause.
Then he cut to the chase and began to preach his worldly, syncretist Gospel encompassing all religions and none, homosexuals and abortionists all working together on the grounds of a common humanity to built a better world based on love, toleration and mutual respect. He delivered his sermon with emotion, but not with truth. Obama’s is not the teaching of Christ and His Catholic Church.
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Athanasius
Don’t you think Obama has the same Masonic mentality as the founders of the United States, Washington and Jefferson etc, working together all under this common humanity?
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Petrus
Yes, I do think it’s the Masonic Creed Obama proclaims. He’s a man for this world, not for the next. His Gospel contains no absolute moral and ethical truths that must be abided by. There exists no one true God to the exclusion of all others in Obama’s world.
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Sadly there are many Modernist Catholics who believe the same thing.
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Indeed, Petrus, many have fallen for this world view of religion. The call it ecumenism. I think this may be the fulfillment of the prophecy of St. Paul, who said:
“There will come a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but according to their own desires will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears, and will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.”
I find in these words a perfect description of ecumenism and the present crisis of faith in the Church.
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Petrus
I don’t know about the 49% of American Catholics approving of legal abortion. I did hear that a recent poll showed that a higher number of Americans than ever before DIS-approved of legal abortion.
But, those are only polls, and they change with every shift of the wind.
By the way, that was a profound observation about the Masonic nature of all this slick secular humanism.
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Editor
I’m sure Fr. Jenkins was hired because he has the right public relations aura. All the prominent enemies of the Church and Western Civilization have it. Puts me in mind of a review I read yesterday, of a new book out about John Lennon allegedly having made a pact with the devil, and how this was the unseen secret behind the Beatles’ dazzling and meteoric rise to fame….as well as the secret behind his gruesome murder.
People like Jenkins and Obama have, in their own way, made a similar pact. And +Bernardin, according to Malachi Martin, was a satanist. Obama’s admiration for him is thus quite fitting.
And how ironic that while faith supposedly admits doubt (NOT!), socialism never admits dissent.
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It is a pity that we do not have the likes of Bishop Burke in every part of the British Isles. How dare Fr Jenkins invite President Obama to Notre Dame University and award him with an honourary degree.
This President’s proposed fiscal budgets, so that funds can be poured into condoms and contraceptive sex based education, and funds cut for far more worthy areas. Condoms and contraceptives in a “capitalist” country makes mega bucks for big business concerns. This man has no Christian values at all.
As for Father John Jenkins being disciplined. Well it is a pity he could not be sent to an enclosed Monastery, to relearn the Catholic faith, relearn what it is to be a priest, he would be required to study and pray.
It is absolutely crazy that Father Weslin has been sentenced to 5 months in a Federal prison for violating a court ordered buffer zone. On the one hand he was getting a postponement of that sentence because the Pentagon might require him to serve as a military chaplain in Afghanistan.
It sounds as though he did serve a prison sentence on one other occasion,
and one guard treated Father in a highly derogatory fashion whilst there.
I’m pleased that the Catholic prison psychiatrist was reminded exactly what the rosary and prayer was.Many Rosaries are required so that America along with the whole of Europe come to its senses, and becomes God fearing instead of Godless states.
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Here’s an interesting article on the decline and fall of Notre Dame:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/how_notre_dame_drifted_away_fr.html
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“Many Rosaries are required so that America along with the whole of Europe come to its senses, and becomes God fearing instead of Godless states.”
Keep praying those rosaries.
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Credo
Spot on!!
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Here’s a video of a priest being arrested – worth watching right through – notice his words of reproach to Notre Dame for having a priest arrested for trying to save the life of a baby. Really poignant.
If the bishops refuse to remove the name “Catholic” from this den of iniquity, they ought, at least, to remove the beautiful name of Our Lady – it should NOT be called Notre Dame from henceforth.
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editor
Thanks for posting this link, it shows that the time of persecution is now upon us. This old priest was manhandled and arrested without any respect for his sacred office. It’s the sign that we have arrived at the time of Anti-Christ. The Catholic Church should raise its voice very loudly over this affair, as it should have done over Ted Atkinson’s arrest and imprisonment in this country. At least most of the Bishops in the US have spoken out as they should. Not so in Britain.
I’m afraid there is worse to come from here on.
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I agree, absolutely, Athanasius. The arrest of that priest (and the other prolifers) is an absolute outrage.
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This scandal continues to rage. Read this…
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09051905.html
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