Chronicles of Atlantis: Fightin' Leprechaun or Pan the Piper

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Fightin' Leprechaun or Pan the Piper

Patrick J. Buchanan @ Taki's asks, Is Notre Dame Still Catholic?

4 comments:

David Nybakke said...: Dear Ath, If we use P Buchanan's logic would not the question he proposed be better if it read: Are American Catholics Still Catholic?

Incoming US President Barack Obama has won back a significant proportion of the Catholic vote previously lost to George Bush, electoral analysts say.

The International Herald Tribune quoted several religious experts saying that the swing in the Catholic vote in this year's election may be one of the more significant political developments, despite the emphasis that Democrats have put on attracting evangelical voters.

On Tuesday, Catholics, who accounted for about a quarter of the electorate, supported Obama, at 54 percent, over McCain, at 45 percent.

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I am totally opposed to I Wun being invited to ND! Totally disgraceful and another travesty within the ranks of the Church.

The bigger issue and some may think this is a bit of a stretch, but I don't think so, this is once more another example resulting from the distorted interpretations of Vatican II which has led to such liberal and relativizing of our faith.; March 31, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Athos said...: I am about finished with Notre Dame, but I will quote Amy Welborn in her post, “Talking Points:”

Unless the university does not believe that the Church's understanding of the moral law is true and knowable, it can no more in good conscience award an honorary doctorate of laws to a lawyer who rejects the humanity of the proper subjects of law than it could in good conscience award an honorary doctorate in science to a geocentric astronomer who rejects the deliverances of the discipline he claims to practice.

At some point, a Christian university must recognize that the truth it claims to know matters, even if the truth is unpopular, and even if the propagation and celebration of that truth may put one's community at odds with those persons and centers of influence and power that dispense prestige and authority in our culture.; March 31, 2009 at 1:26 PM
David Nybakke said...: Maybe the ND debacle is the best thing to happen to Catholicism in America. My point, and granted I am bent in a perspective coming from owning my own corporation, that there is ALWAYS someone(s) behind the organization. Couple that with the fact that a strong majority of Catholics in this country had no remorse in supporting the anti-Church positions of the now President; it seems to me that the question is: are the majority of American Catholics Catholic (using Buchanan's logic)? Are the Catholics behind ND Catholic? Are the Catholics behind any institution or business Catholic? Are the Catholics who are heads of households Catholics? Looking across this land you would pretty much have to say, though there are exceptions, most Catholics voted anti-Church.

It seems to me that the much bigger issue is that the majority of American Catholics need a conversion of heart - a major conscience transplant.

So how we handle this space and time will tell on whether we are allowing ourselves to be used as God's instruments for the conversion of hearts.; March 31, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Athos said...: Lest we sin the sin of despair (presumption we ain't worried about here), Jeff Miller, aka The Curt Jester, shares some good news.; March 31, 2009 at 2:54 PM