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Notre Dame Inquisition: Obama Commencement Flap and a Fading Catholic Church

March 27, 2009 10:40 AM ET | Bonnie Erbe | Permanent Link | Print

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Sorry for being so off topic in my last blog. Obama being allowed to address the graduating class of 09 at notre dame has incited literally millions of Catholics to revulsion. No not because he's a democratic or even a neo-socialist the issue is his track record on abortion advocacy of which he is the leading pro abortion entity in the USA & happens to occupy the White House, thats the wound inflicted by notre dames flagrant disregard for the belief system of the Catholic church and 1.5 billions Catholic-Christians worldwide. It is very very possible that schools like notre dame, boston college and georgetown will be stripped of their Catholic identity by the will of the above mentioned 1.5 billion Roman Catholics and the firing of their anti-Catholic, Catholic rector & President Rev, Jenkins will occur. Alumni are withdrawning donations to that school by the millions many returning their hard earned diplomas. As forementioned besides are rabidly hostile anti-catholic press in the USA & the other arm of overt & covert Catholic hating propaganda occurring in the United States is to be found on the campuses of universities throughout the US religious & secular schools alike and a older reactionary anti religious faculty and tenured members of the older 60's generation. The X & millinium generation are not buying the secular modernity of the older generation.Militant secularism isold school, passe, and as it die's out become more & more verbally hostile 7 reactionary

obama fiasco at notre dame

Actual the tide has turned since the joke called the council Vatican 2 liberalized and caved in to modernity.It started with john paul 2 & excellerated under Pope Benedict 16th. The reference is to Catholics in europe & north america fallening away from Catholic-Christianity.the new generation born since the 1980's are it seems extremely Orthodox in their religious beliefs & practices and are returning in droves to a form of Catholicism virtually outlawed since 1965 and that is the Latin Mass (Tridentine). Latin masses since liberating it under Benedict 16th are experiencing churchs literally packed to the rafters predominately with youth 18-35.As the old hippy generation dyes out young Orthodox priests seem to be showing more & more preference for the 1600 yr old liturgy as do the majority of the X younger generation. Europe since 2002 is experience a substantial return to Catholicism particularly in France, Belgiun Holland Italy and the trend is beginning in the UK & Ireland as the latin mass spreads more people (particular) the young are returning & attending throughout Europe . Traditional Catholic religious order are filled to overflow also and their vocational problems are finding enough room to accomodate new vocations. In the USA alone 175.000 have converted to the Catholic faith in 2005 alone as the church there stabilies with more Orthodox priests & Bishops. Sadly the US still has a strong undercurrent of anti Catholic bigotry and hate, mostly manifest in the media, but this bigotry & religious hate has existed in the USA since that country was founded. In Canada religion is still flatline.

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About Bonnie Erbe

Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.

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