Father Jenkins' Academic Council & USCCB - 2

Father Jenkins’s Academic Council & USCCB – 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sunday, April 5, 2009

This is the second letter in a series of letters on the Notre Dame Scandal. The invitation to President Obama was not ‘a Catholic thing to do’.

THIS INVITATION CROSSED THE LINE AND MUST NOT STAND! The truth and widespread knowledge of the truth is the Church’s most powerful weapon. It is a ‘No’ to Religious correctness. Refer to the book by Pope Benedict XVI, Co-Workers of the Truth, which is the standard we can follow.

When you reread the comments made by the bishops in my first letter you feel ‘a breadth of fresh air’. At last, thinking with the Church with some kind of common Catholic identity. Let this not go away. Let’s focus on this scandal right up to the time the invitation is rescinded or to May 17th.

I believe Father Jenkins and his cohorts acted in a mode of modern Catholic religious correctness which is obsolete and will not stand anymore.

1.)The decision flies in the face of the U.S. Bishops’ 2004 “Catholics in Political Life” statement, which reads, “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. This applies to Catholics and non-Catholics alike. {What the USCCB left out are the other three evils in this dirty little secret: assisted-suicide, euthanasia and same-sex marriage. The time has come for Catholics to be fully informed by you on politicians prior to elections.}

2.)The best analysis was by Bishop Thomas Olmstead of the Phoenix diocese in a letter to the university that the honor is: “A PUBLIC ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE TO THE BISHOPS OF THE UNITED STATES.” {It’s also in your face, Pope Benedict XVI}

3.)Prominent Notre Dame Law Professor Charles Rice wrote that Fr. Jenkins should resign over this scandal, along with other Fellows and Trustees.

4.)It is a slap in the face of many students who are graduating and wondering whether or not in good conscience they should attend their graduation. It is not fair to deliberately cause divisions among students and teachers.

5.)“Notre Dame has chosen prestige over principles, popularity over morality.
Whatever may be President Obama’s admirable qualities, this honor comes on the heels of some of the most anti-life actions of any American president: including expanding federal funding for abortions and inviting taxpayer-funded research on stem cells from human embryos." Judie Brown

6.)Alan Keyes, “Barack Obama is the living incarnation of the glamour or evil.
His smiley tones, and non threatening manner, mask a studied commitment to the promotion of the most deadly evil in the world today- the cult of abortion on the ritual of child sacrifice…. to prove his claim to the mantle of High Priest of the Worldwide Abortion cult.”

7.)All Catholic bishops are obliged to take action in a situation like this. As
the Church document “Ex Ecclesiae” teaches.

Please write to: The Most Reverend Archbishop Zenon Grocholewski, Prefect,
The Congregation for Catholic Education of Seminaries and Institute of Studies
{Secretary: Archbishop Jean-Louis Brugues, O.P.}
00120 CITTA DEL VATICANO, ROMA, ITALY
George H. Kubeck