Your thoughts on the Obama invitation to speak at Notre Dame University and receive an honorary degree?

Since this is a Catholic University and Obama is against everything the Catholic faith stands for, do you think this is a sacrilege, in the eyes of the Catholic Church?Your thoughts on the Obama invitation to speak at Notre Dame University and receive an honorary degree?I think its horrible that he's going to be giving advice to all these young minds that paid to go to a catholic university, when there is nothing about him that is christian likeYour thoughts on the Obama invitation to speak at Notre Dame University and receive an honorary degree?
I think that it is a good thing. I know several students from Notre Dame who are actually thrilled and happy about Obama's invitation to speak at Notre Dame. This is a good thing for the University. The invitation shows that Notre Dame is not an exclusionary institution. As a institute of higher education the universities goal is to educate, not proselytize. There are many non Catholics who have graduated from the university and there are many students attending the university who are not Catholic. Of the students who are catholic, the majority of them are pleased with the invitation and are looking foreword to it. Only the most devout catholics are voicing concern.



to answer you question: No it is not a sacrilege. The leadership of the University is mostly Catholic and they have made an informed decision to invite and award President Obama. this is good for the students, good for the university, and good for America.Your thoughts on the Obama invitation to speak at Notre Dame University and receive an honorary degree?There are two issues at work here, freedom of speech and honoring immoral principles.



+ Freedom of Speech +



The University of Notre Dame (Our Lady) has the freedom to invite and engage in serious debate with whomever it wishes. And, of course, President Obama is entitled to freedom of speech. What is debatable is whether a commencement speech is the proper place for this debate.



In addition, everyone else in the country is entitled to freedom of speech, including those who disagree with the President's opinions and actions in many areas.



+ Honoring Immoral Principals +



In 2004, the U.S. Bishops requested that Catholic institutions “should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles” and that such persons “should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.” http://www.usccb.org/bishops/catholicsin…



Notre Dame is planning to award the President an honorary degree in defiance of this request and by doing so is giving the impression of honoring and supporting the president's immoral principles and actions.



How would you like if you were a Catholic parent who taught your child what was right and wrong, scrimped, saved and sacrificed to send your child through 8 years of Catholic elementary school, 4 years of Catholic high school, and 4 years of Catholic university, and then, after paying the University over $120,000 to educate your child and at your child's graduation ceremony, the Catholic University slaps the faces of your child, you, and all Catholics by giving an high honor to a person who stands against much of what Catholics believe?



Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law professor and U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See has announced that she will not accept the highest honor conferred by the University of Notre Dame, the Laetare Medal, at this year's commencement exercises. http://www.catholicculture.org/news/feat…



With love in Christ.Your thoughts on the Obama invitation to speak at Notre Dame University and receive an honorary degree?
I think it is kind of strange and doesn't really make sense.



But everyone has this weird obsession/love for the guy so I'm not really surprised. I'm not knocking him (atleast right now), just saying that people that know absolutely nothing about current events and the state of the country blindly love the guy because MTV told them to.Your thoughts on the Obama invitation to speak at Notre Dame University and receive an honorary degree?No, of course not.



Do you really think that everyone that gets an honorary degree from Notre Dame is a friend to the Catholic church?



Be Blessed:-)Your thoughts on the Obama invitation to speak at Notre Dame University and receive an honorary degree?
Okay there Jesus warrior.