The American Catholic

Now you may be under the mistaken belief that the scandal at Notre Dame on Sunday was the homage received by the most pro-abortion president in our nation’s history.   Silly you!  According to the President of another Catholic college, Patricia McGuire of Trinity, the real scandal was caused by those protesting Obama Day.

“The real scandal at Notre Dame today is not that the president of the United States is speaking at commencement,” McGuire said. “The real scandal is the misappropriation of sacred teachings for political ends. The real scandal is the spectacle of ostensibly Catholic mobs camping out at Notre Dame for the specific purpose of disrupting the commencement address of the nation’s first African American president. This ugly spectacle is an embarrassment to all Catholics. The face that Catholicism shows to our new president should be one marked with the sign of peace, not distorted in the snarl of hatred.”

McGuire continued, “The religious vigilantism apparent in the Notre Dame controversy arises from organizations that have no official standing with the church, but who are successful in gaining media coverage as if they were speaking for Catholicism. . . . They have established themselves as uber-guardians of a belief system we can hardly recognize. Theirs is a narrow faith devoted almost exclusively to one issue. They defend the rights of the unborn but have no charity toward the living. They mock social justice as a liberal mythology.”

Of course, I can understand why McGuire said that, considering that her college celebrates their pro-abort alums Nancy Pelosi, aka Lying Worthless Political Hack, and Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of HHS and friend of Tiller the Killer.  That of course explains why McGuire is in such a tizzy.  Catholic colleges and universities can’t even abase themselves any more before pro-abort pols without hordes of Catholics protesting.  Go figure.