*This post has nothing to do with my own private views or the views of this site. It goes along with the other posts about what happened at Notre Dame and how barry got another pass.
Kelly – this for some reason never got posted. I went back to confirm the link [Thomas L Murray: Don't Harm the Bishop's Messengers] and it’s now only available in their paid archives so I changed the link to the archive. Follow the link just below for all the other posts regarding barry and Notre Dame.
Fr Weslin/Fr Jenkins/Notre Dame posts
Fr Weslin manhandled prior to arrest made necessary by barry
June 18, 2009
It is impossible to translate this technically, so I’m going to take a guess. I have dyslexia and the poster is a lawyer who must litigate very segmented issues like patents or formulas or something because his words looked all SQUARE and never got going because of the Morse Code like P,U{n}c(t_u;a.”ti”o[n]. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything that didn’t have a single round sound.
What was at issue as far as Notre Dame, barry, Prof Mary Ann Glendon, Fr Weslin, Bishop D’arcy and Francis Cardinal George, et al was whether Fr Jenkins, by inviting barry – a non-Catholic, whose abortion stance is as diametrically opposed to the Catholic Church’s absolute sanctity of life stand as possible – violated a written policy set forth by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops as referenced in Prof Glendon’s letter.
2004 USCCB’s “Catholics in Political Life,” said that the Church “should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles.”
Fr Jenkins checked it out legally and scholastically and came to the conclusion that it didn’t.
Bottom line:
Yes – barry’s views are as far away from the Church as one can get.
Yes – he is a politician.
And yes – he has an agenda that he would be addressing – however teleprompter parsed – as it always is.
BUT. He is not a Catholic. Period. End of legal story. He could be get his award.
So, technically and legally, Fr Jenkins did NOT violate what was laid out in Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) 2004.
Morally, from his fellow Catholic priests’ viewpoint, there’s no question that awarding barry – who has vowed never to make abortion illegal – is wrong.
That Fr Weslin being manhandled and arrested for protesting abortion on the grounds of a Catholic University is wrong.
And that Professor Mary Ann Glendon not being awarded the Laetare Medal is wrong.
To me, the simple fact that Fr Jenkins went to all the trouble to check it out makes it clear he knew it was “wrong”.
