Tell Notre Dame to Disinvite Obama!
— Posted by John (March 23, 2009 at 9:26 am)
You may have already heard that President Barack Obama is scheduled to give the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame’s class of 2009.
I’m including here the article that appeared Friday on the homepage of our parent organization, the Pro-Life Action League:
League Calls on Notre Dame To Disinvite President Obama
On March 20 it was announced that President Barack Obama is scheduled to give the commencement address to the Class of 2009 at the renowned Catholic University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. The Pro-Life Action League immediately issued a press release calling on Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins to withdraw the invitation.
Obama Attacks Sanctity of Life
“Over the first two months of his administration, Barack Obama has established himself as the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history,” said League National Director Joe Scheidler, himself a graduate of Notre Dame, a Catholic university. “My alma mater should not be providing a platform for this president.”
“Starting from his first week in office, President Obama has enacted a string of executive orders, appointments and policy decisions that contradict Catholic teaching on the sanctity of life—a teaching that Notre Dame is supposed to uphold,” said Scheidler.
Among the pro-abortion actions Obama has taken in just two months in office, Scheidler lists:
- Overturning of the Mexico City Policy, which had prohibited U.S. funds from being used to promote or provide abortions overseas
- Working to overturn conscience protections for healthcare workers, forcing them to cooperate in abortion or risk losing their jobs
- Appointing pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, who has close ties to late-term abortionist George Tiller, to head the Department of Health and Human Services
- Dedicating federal funds to harvest embryonic stem cells for research at the expense of the most defenseless members of the human family
Tell N.D. To Disinvite Obama!
Scheidler is calling on concerned Catholics, especially Notre Dame alumni, to contact Rev. Jenkins and urge him to withdraw the Obama invitation:
- Rev. John Jenkins, CSC
- 400 Main Building
- Notre Dame, IN 46556
- 574-631-3903 **Phone calls are especially encouraged.**
- president@nd.edu
If Notre Dame does not disinvite Obama, Scheidler says, the Notre Dame campus can expect a massive pro-life protest on graduation day, including the use of large, graphic abortion pictures that show exactly what Barack Obama supports.
“Father Jenkins cannot expect pro-life Catholics to stand back and allow the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history to make a mockery of Notre Dame’s Catholic identity,” Scheidler said.
Additional Resources
- Sign the petition against the Obama appearance at Notre Dame created by the Cardinal Newman Society
- Join the Facebook Group opposing the Obama commencement address.
- Read the official press release about the Obama address at the University of Notre Dame site
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Comment posted March 23rd, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Paula says:
To all at GFL , Eric, Joe- thank you for all the info and connections to hopefully persuade N.D. to change their minds. We in Ohio, have signed the petition, tried to make calls (voice mail full ! ) , have written to Fr. Jenkins, shot this info down all the pro-life and Catholic pipe lines that we know. We are ready to join you at their campus if need be. As a Catholic and a pro-lifer, I feel violated, to say the least. Joe summed it up pretty well for all of us. Are there any true Catholic institutions left? It truly is heart-breaking.
Comment posted March 24th, 2009 at 1:22 am
RSD says:
This is a scandal to the highest degree. Fr. Jenkins has no right inviting President Abortion into a Catholic campus.
If this pushes thru, ND should be stripped of its Catholic name/ identity…this is a slap in the face of our Holy Mother.
John 10:27 “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me”
*If Fr. Jenkins isn’t hearing Christ’s voice in teaching the young at ND….whose voice is he heeding??
Comment posted March 24th, 2009 at 8:07 am
craig says:
If Obama does give the graduation address at ND, I will totally jump on a bus with other Catholics to participate in a HUGE protest. The news would totally cover the whole event … and show America a huge pro-life face…
Comment posted March 24th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Paula says:
Craig-get ready! I sent this info to our “Friends-4- Life” person, here in Ohio. She has approx. 200 people on her e-mail list. I have been overwhelmed by the # of irate Catholics, who are ready to come to South Bend. Some have even booked hotel rooms already. We are ready! I was distraught by this horrendous event, but the responses have given me hope. Ohio Catholics are ready to fight the good fight!
Comment posted March 24th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Caroline says:
Mr. Jansen,
Is the pro-life action league actually going to take buses down to ND to protest? If so can I find out more info?
Comment posted March 25th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
John says:
Caroline—
That’s our plan. We’ll be e-mailing more information about this in the coming weeks.
If you haven’t yet done so, I’d recommend you sign up both for our GFL-Wire e-mail updates — which you can do in the upper-left hand corner of this page — and also for PLAL’s e-mail updates, which you can do here.
Comment posted March 26th, 2009 at 9:08 am
s fane says:
Hi Guys! Here’s some info I posted on FAPP Thought you might like it too.
Peace.
For those U.S. Catholics who would like to correspond with Rome on the
Barack Obama Debacle. Here’s the info. Apparently there is no e-mail address available.
Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski
Fax# 011-39-06-69-88-41-72
Congregation for Catholic Education
Palazzo Della Congregazioni,
Piazza Pio XII, 3
00193 Roma
Italy
address and fax obtained from Chicago Archdiocese Office of Respect Life
Kudos go to them for their adherence to our Church Teachings and their diligent efforts for the unborn most recently the Saturday Bioethics Conference which was well attended I am told
God Bless you guys in Chicago and thanks for your help!
Peace.
My prayers follow you, and the Pro-life Action League, and the whole Scheidler Family!
Comment posted April 2nd, 2009 at 12:26 pm
s fane says:
Is anyone from Lafayette going to the South Bend Notre Dame Event on Palm Sunday?!
Post here. I’ll review it!
Thanks
Comment posted April 2nd, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Betsy says:
I am totally disgusted that Notre Dame would put
its moral standing and beliefs on the line to invite Mr. Obama child killer to speak at graduation and to honor him with a degree no less. There’s a reason for the protests, the Bishop not attending on his 25th year, and others not attending at all and rescinding their support. Is it worth it, Father Jenkins? I think not. Obama has not even shown Americans his
birth certificate, college records, etc.—he is
an amoral fraud as has already been stated here.
He does not deserve this honor. It’s a DISGRACE.
Protesters from OH are coming–Catholics & Lutherans.
Comment posted May 10th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Clare says:
AMEN!!!!
Comment posted May 11th, 2009 at 6:59 pm