Scandal!

Everyone loves a good one. The real "scandal" here is that over 354,000 Catholics can agree on anything, esp. when Faith & politics clash (click on either picture to add your name to the petition). As I mentioned in my last post, when the "spiritual" & the "practical" collide, that's when we really find out what's what in our priorities.

Catholics are something like 20% of the American population. Even even half of Catholics would allow themselves to be formed by Christ speaking through the Church, instead of by CNN or Fox News, how different the moral landscape of this country & the world would be!

Why all the fuss? He is the president, after all, right? Well here is the all-to-clear statement of the U.S. bishops, who rarely speak with clarity on anything:

“The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.” - “Catholics in Political Life”, U.S. Bishops, 2004.

Even the president does not have the right to use a Catholic institution to advance an agenda that patently against Church teaching & universal natural law. Given the gravity of the offense against human life he has personally perpetrated, it must be denied. American Papist counts 66 bishops of the U.S.'s 195 diocese have publicly spoken out against the president giving the commencement address & receiving an honorary law degree. Fr. Jenkins, however, persists in disobedience.


If you think this is all just partison bickering of no real point or consequence, click here for a personal story of a Notre Dame alumnus & her encounter with "choice." Notre Dame, ora pro nobis!