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March 26, 2009Notre Dame: exercise nuclear option?UPDATE, 10:20a: Petition signatures at NotreDameScandal.com just topped 160k._______________Tom Roeser, chairman of the board of Catholic Citizens of Illinois and popular radio talk show host, has proposed on his blog: What can authenticist Catholics do about Notre Dame which has invited Barack Obama to be its 2009 commencement speaker-an invitation Obama has accepted? Catholics can...(a) write the president, Rev. John Jenkins, CSC but will get a very nice letter back. They can (b) write the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Francis George and they will get a very short, crisp letter back saying he does not have jurisdiction over Notre Dame, thank you and please pray for me as I pray for you as we pray for all etc.,etc., etc. They can (c) write the bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Bishop John Michael D'Arcy and ask him to pressure Notre Dame to change its mind. They will get a pro-forma letter back. They can (d) make a list of the trustees of the university and write them, try to pressure them. Not very effective. Finally, by organizing a group of alumni they can write to and visit the bishop, Bishop D'Arcy and urge him to employ the "nuclear option."... The nuclear option belongs to every Ordinary - the power to remove the Catholic identification from the offending school. A negotiation can begin where the Ordinary says that unless the university behaves like a Catholic institution, it should not misrepresent itself as one.... Assuredly, for an Ordinary to even raise the possibility of stripping Catholic identity will strike a match that could launch a revolution to reclaiming Catholic universities....
Bishop's letter to ND President Jenkins: Inviting Obama is "public act of disobedience"Also,http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2009/03/notre_dame_nucl.html#moreQuoteMarch 26, 2009Notre Dame: exercise nuclear option?UPDATE, 10:20a: Petition signatures at NotreDameScandal.com just topped 160k._______________Tom Roeser, chairman of the board of Catholic Citizens of Illinois and popular radio talk show host, has proposed on his blog: What can authenticist Catholics do about Notre Dame which has invited Barack Obama to be its 2009 commencement speaker-an invitation Obama has accepted? Catholics can...(a) write the president, Rev. John Jenkins, CSC but will get a very nice letter back. They can (b) write the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Francis George and they will get a very short, crisp letter back saying he does not have jurisdiction over Notre Dame, thank you and please pray for me as I pray for you as we pray for all etc.,etc., etc. They can (c) write the bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Bishop John Michael D'Arcy and ask him to pressure Notre Dame to change its mind. They will get a pro-forma letter back. They can (d) make a list of the trustees of the university and write them, try to pressure them. Not very effective. Finally, by organizing a group of alumni they can write to and visit the bishop, Bishop D'Arcy and urge him to employ the "nuclear option."... The nuclear option belongs to every Ordinary - the power to remove the Catholic identification from the offending school. A negotiation can begin where the Ordinary says that unless the university behaves like a Catholic institution, it should not misrepresent itself as one.... Assuredly, for an Ordinary to even raise the possibility of stripping Catholic identity will strike a match that could launch a revolution to reclaiming Catholic universities....