Link Roundup for Thursday September 24, 2009
Posted by matt (September 24, 2009 at 6:12 pm)
“What Happened to Notre Dame?”
American Spectator
Notre Dame Law School professor Charles Rice is still on the case of America’s largest religious university’s sell-out. The Obama commencement speech episode is not over, as Rice explains in an open letter to the school’s president begging him to have the charges against the “Notre Dame 88″ dropped.
Notre Dame Pro-Life Efforts a “Mockery” While Pro-Life Protesters Continue to Face Charges: ND Law Prof
LifeSiteNews
University of Notre Dame law professor emeritus Charles Rice has issued an open letter to University president Fr. John Jenkins this week, criticizing the school’s attempts at reconstructing a pro-life facade while still refusing to request leniency for the dozens of pro-lifers arrested for protesting the Obama scandal in May.
Pro-lifers urge Notre Dame to choose life
One News Now
A petition drive has been launched to convince Notre Dame’s president to drop charges against pro-life demonstrators.
Veteran Law Professor Challenges Notre Dame President to Pro-Life Consistency
Catholic Culture
Charles Rice, who for years was a prominent member of the law-school faculty at the University of Notre Dame, has challenged the school’s president, Father John Jenkins, to go beyond “cosmetic covering” in his commitment to promote the pro-life cause.
Notre Dame’s Hands are UNCLEAN
Voice of Reason
Notre Dame’s President, Father Jenkin’s has a CHOICE to not prosecute the 88 peaceful protesters who came to campus to voice their concerns over Obama’s commencement speech. The protest was spawned from Obama’s extremist pro-choice views including promoting legislation to refuse treatment to a baby born alive from a botched abortion and allowing abortions through the ninth month of pregnancy…However, Jenkins chooses to do NOTHING.
That’s RACIST!
Orwell’s Picnic
Apparently the only motive anyone could have had for objecting to Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame was “racism”.
Notre Dame pro-life efforts being tarnished by trespass charges, says law prof
Catholic News Agency
On the matter of the 88 pro-life protesters arrested during President Obama’s appearance at the university, Prof. Rice said University Chief of Staff Frances L. Shavers was being “misleading” in saying that they were arrested for trespassing and not for expressing pro-life views. In Prof. Rice’s view, the protesters were arrested “not because they were there, but because of who they were, why they were there and what they were saying.
Bishop of Memphis Implies 80 of His Brother Bishops – Including at Least 2 Cardinals – Are “Racist”
Pro Ecclesia * Pro Familia * Pro Civitate
It is a shame to see how, even in the Church, the race card is played indiscriminately and without regard to the truth, but especially so when it comes from those in a position of authority who ought to know better.
‘Guilty of Praying’
Catholic.net
When Air Force One roared off into the sky over northern Indiana May 17, most people considered the controversy surrounding President Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame over. But for the 88 people arrested for trespassing during the controversy, the story is still unfolding. “I am not guilty of trespassing,” said Penny Cyr of her arrest on May 15 as she walked on campus with a procession of pro-lifers challenging the plan to bestow an honorary doctorate on the pro-abortion president. “I am guilty of praying. I had my rosary in my hand.”