For weeks now, we have been begging, pleading, cajoling, and even approached provoking Atlanta Roman Catholic Archbishop Wilton Daniel Gregory to address the treachery going on at Notre Dame.  Commencement speaker and soon-to-be-honorary-degree holder President Barack Hussein Obama has done nothing less than wage an all out offensive on the unborn.  Archbishop Gregory is silent, adopting the ultimate provincial mantra - if it doesn't effect me, I say nothing.

His Excellency's mouthpiece, one Ms. Pat Chivers, asserts that local shepherd Gregory has a policy against such things and that he never "misses an opportunity to speak" about abortion.  Both are false.

In addition, his premise is also false.  Evidence the eloquent Lacy Dodd:

For many members of the Notre Dame Class of 2009, the uproar surrounding the university’s decision to honor Barack Obama with this year’s commencement address, and to bestow on him a doctorate of laws, has provoked strong feelings about what the ensuing conflict will mean for their graduation.

I know how they feel. Ten years ago, my heart was filled with similar conflicts as we came closer to the day of my own Notre Dame commencement and my commissioning as an officer in the United States Army.

You see, I was three months pregnant.

Read the rest of the article here.


By his silence, Archbishop Gregory sends the wrong message.  This is more than a philosophical rumination or dining room table chit chat.  When one part of the body suffers, the whole body suffers.  When one member of my family sins, it impacts the entire family.  The compartmentalism that Archbishop Gregory apparently embraces will do nothing but cause souls to perish.

Archbishop Gregory, for the sake of the souls you are charged to shepherd, for the sake of Christ's Church for which you vowed martyrdom if necessary: raise your voice to stop this treachery!

Would we similarly honor Hitler at Hebrew University because - apart from that Holocaust thing - he was a pretty good artist?

               

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

 Martin Luther King Jr.

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