Catholic and Enjoying it points out the logical conclusion from the nonsensical argument that because president Obama is not a Catholic.
I think a better example would be the a Leni Riefenstahl Chair for film excellence. After all she was clearly a genius and an important person in film history. So she was friend with Hitler and company and her greatest film was a piece of Nazi propaganda.
Meanwhile rather than simple mockery that I am using Edward Peters actually addresses this nonsense:
It is paradigmatic of the theological Left to ignore canon law when it poses the slightest inconvenience for its plans, but to hide behind canons (or at least behind canonists, even anonymous ones) when they afford some cover (however thin) for obvious blunders or malfeasance. And so Jenkins, invoking unidentified canon lawyers, holds that the USCCB’s 2004 statement, “Catholics in Political Life”, merely restricts Catholic institutions from honoring Catholics whose public record evidences disdain for fundamental moral principles.
Is the man serious?
Does Jenkins really think that Catholic bishops would countenance a Catholic institution honoring a philanthropic murderer, or a free-speech crusading pornographer, or a right-to-privacy pimp, provided merely that the awardee was not a Catholic? Really, that’s too bizarre for words.
I think the problem now is the sin of pride. Any retreat would be an embarrassment for Fr. Jenkins and that embarrassment trumps theology. Peters an expert of Canon Law has a solution:
Seriously, what I wonder is, why, amid the canon lawyers Jenkins claims to have consulted, not one, it seems, pointed out the most obvious solutions to their client’s problem:
The USCCB’s statement applies only to “Catholic institutions”, right? Well, all Jenkins and the ND board need do is declare that Notre Dame is not a “Catholic institution”, and poof! all these problems disappear. Notre Dame could confer honorary doctorates in law on anybody it wants after that, even on people who have built a career out of denying unborn babies the protection of law, and nary a bishop would say a word about it.
Of course then ND just becomes a college with a declining football program.
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Well written Tech Guy! I am 100% certain out of pride Rev Jenkins would never reverse himself, Pres Obama will speak for sure. So he won’t give in for fear of looking wishy-washy. He evidently doesn’t mind looking weak and dumb though.
It is for this reason that Fr. Jenkins needs our prayers more than anything else. This has the potential to cause great damage to the Church in general and Notre Dame in particular. The really sad thing is no matter how things go the class of ’09 now has a polarized graduation which is very unfair to them and their families.
In addition we also have to be careful to avoid the sin of spiritual pride, our objection has to be true and firm but must also avoid conceit. It’s a nasty tightrope but it needs to be walked and remembered.