Speech at Notre Dame

[JSojourner]

I'm delighted the University of Notre Dame invited the President to speak and gave him an honorary degree.

I am equally delighted with the handling of this matter by my friend, Bishop John D'Arcy, of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend.  John refused to attend, in protest.  While I would not have done so because I am pro-choice, His Excellency exercised his conscience with honor, integrity and kindness.  Bishop D'Arcy issued statements leading up to the event urging those with genuinely anti-abortion rights convictions to avoid making a mockery of the day and the issue by getting arrested, shouting insults and displaying grisly images.

The Bishop would have rather had Alan Keyes, Randall Terry, Joe Scheidler and the rest of that tribe offer their services and money to Crisis Pregnancy Centers. Tens of thousands of dollars were spent on signs, advertising, aborted baby displays and so forth.  One wonders what financially-strapped Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Catholic Charities or Catholic Hospitals might have done with the money.  Hell, they might even have saved a baby or two from abortion.