Notre Dame's Obama Invite Riles Catholic Bishops

[babsbunny]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/03/notre-dames-obama-invite-_n_195298.html

ERIC GORSKI | May 3, 2009 06:48 AM EST

This coming week, Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, Fla., will take the unusual step of celebrating a Mass of Reparation, to make amends for sins against God. The motivation: to provide an outlet for Catholics upset with what Wenski calls the University of Notre Dame's "clueless" decision to invite President Barack Obama to speak at its commencement and receive an honorary doctorate May 17.

The nation's flagship Catholic university's honoring of a politician whose abortion rights record clashes with a fundamental church teaching has triggered a reaction among the nation's Catholic bishops that is remarkable in scope and tone, church observers say.

[mmonk]

1. Go back to sleep bishops. The lay people aren't paying attention

to you anymore.

[deepthought42]

2. This just pisses me off...

:mad:

What next? Not going to invite anyway who's ever used any form of birth control? Good luck with that one! :banghead:

[Ocracoker16]

3. Another instance of the widening gap between Catholic church leaders and their flocks

These bishops are really out of touch with the people they serve. There have been so many studies done over the years that show that there are plenty of Catholics who wouldn't consider themselves pro-life. The Pew Forum study showed that plenty of Catholics approved of ND's choice of Obama as their commencement speaker.

I think that the president of Norte Dame should be commended for inviting Obama to speak at commencement knowing that this would cause an uproar among some of the bishops. He didn't disinvite Obama. He told the opposition that Obama had a lot to offer to graduates having broken the race barrier and become the first African American president. He said that abortion is not really going to come up in his speech.