Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Bishop D'Arcy on Not Our Dame

The timing could not be apt, as Bishop John D'Arcy points out in his statement regarding President Obama being invited, and accepting the invitation, to speak at Notre Dame:
Even as I continue to ponder in prayer these events, which many have found shocking, so must Notre Dame. Indeed, as a Catholic University, Notre Dame must ask itself, if by this decision it has chosen prestige over truth.

Tomorrow, we celebrate as Catholics the moment when our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, became a child in the womb of his most holy mother. Let us ask Our Lady to intercede for the university named in her honor, that it may recommit itself to the primacy of truth over prestige.
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