Comments for A Modest Proposal for Dialogue at Notre Dame at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 19 out of 19 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 23 May 2013 05:02:03 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1394 THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! For standing up for our Catholic views and expressing them loudly and intelligently. May our Mother Mary watch over you and your family with All the Graces God has to offer. When God is for you, Who can be against you!! God Bless, Lori Bourgeois, Louisiana - Lori Bourgeois Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:47:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1336 I just received a quick form letter response to my letter to the USCCB about Notre Dame. It says that in a nutshell that the bishops have no authority over ND and gives a list of other organizations to contact. The bishops' responsibility is that had Catholics been taught orthodoxy over the past 40 years, then neither Clinton nor Obama would have ever been elected. Am I wrong to believe that the USCCB as a group should be the one putting pressure on the organizations they told me to contact? - MM Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:17:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1315 Most people who bemoan how unCatholic Notre Dame has become have never been there and certainly never been in any classrooms. As the honorable prof. freely admits, there are plenty of faithful fighters in the ranks of the faculty. Jenkins did not hand-pick Obama specifically, ND has invited every president for nearly the past three decades. Will there be much of a debate or dialogue? I doubt it, but read what his General Superior says: http://web.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0901461.htm - Gerald Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:05:12 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1309 Isn't there any person of authority that can remove Father Jenkins...Can't the Bishop remove him. Where is the Pope...where are the rest of the Bishops weighing in on ths? And they wonder why the flock is in such disarray and confused.. - Philomena Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:25:10 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1297 Fr. Jenkins could invite Obama to a reception of ND students and alumni who were unplanned and unwanted pregnancies (I was in an orphanage until after my 1st birthday) and ask him to identify which us should have been aborted. Or he could just ask Obama if his mother should have had the "choice" to abort him. Watching the most powerful man in the world argue for the right for his own mother to kill him would be something I would walk from my Dallas home to South Bend to see.... - Jerry Beckett Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:45:10 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1294 Obama wouldn't stand a chance in a scholarly debate against any of those people. And besides, Obama is the kind of President who wants to bring people together by trying to gloss over the issues and focus on what we have in common. Forget the economy, let my unborn people go! - Phil Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:23:06 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1293 How is a commencement speech a platform for dialogue? This seems to me to be a sugar coating. No amount of lipstick will dress up this pig. - Helen Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:22:41 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1290 Mr. Colston asked about the source for the quote from Henry James. It's from a story called "The Solution." The narrator was describing a procession on a Sunday in Rome and said, "The bright immensity of the place protected conversation and even gossip. It struck one not as a particular temple, but as formed by the very walls of the faith that has no small pruderies to enforce." - Hadley Arkes Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:13:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1288 Amen! Reason and humor, the best of both worlds! - Catholic NJ Mom Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:04:36 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1286 Oh, you are good. My question to you would be, if you give him the advantage of doing his homework for him, vis-a-vis your transcript, will you require that he leave his tele-prompter home and actually formulate a response on his own? As far as appearing indecorous and demeaning, he might as well don slouch jeans and ripped t-shirts. The office has been dishonored by his behavior and we are only 2+months into the term. - DEBBY Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:53:51 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1285 The Henry James quote is from short story, "The Solution" - thomas Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:27:30 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1282 This article explains why it does not matter that the students voted for Obama to speak: http://www.squarewon.org/2009/03/30/notre-dame-conservative-catholicism-and-the-tv-show-house/ - Emily Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:15:06 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1284 Prof. Arkes, From your lips to God's ears. I pray that the Lord may cause this to come to pass. - Keith Toepfer Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:12:02 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1283 "If he could do The Tonight Show, it would not be demeaning to meet accomplished academics on the plane of a serious conversation." Yeah, right. That'll never happen because Mr. Obama wants, above all, to win. And if he were to step into the ring for real rational debate, he would lose. So, he won't do it. -M. L. Hearing - M. L. Hearing Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:11:52 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1278 This debate template should be used by every Catholic university rather than the fulsome and empty fete-and-honor approach. By the way, where did the marvelous a propos quotation from Henry James come from? - Ken Colston Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:08:56 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1276 Intersting would be a meeting of the minds of Catholic intellectuals and Obama. However, I am pessimistic about such an encounter being fruitful in this postmodern era. I would say that most student bodies of Catholic universities, my own alma mater, Villanova, included, are in a cesspool of moral relatvism. In more Classical times one could start from a point of Absolute Truth. Since there is only truth as a mental and variable abstraction today, I believe that meaningful dialogue is friutless. - William Dennis Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:01:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1275 Thank you Prof. Arkes I think you're a star - expose them, call their bluff. Nothing like this can ever happen again. If we hound the charlatans from public life we might finally be able to get rid of Land 'O Lakes. - martin Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:25:46 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1274 If Notre Dame merely wanted to engage the President in dialogue, it doesn't have to go the extra step of bestowing upon him an honorary doctorate in jurisprudence. By doing so, Notre Dame is, indeed, "honoring" Mr. Obama. The Catholic University should remain faithful to the Faith... and if its Catholic students are no longer faithful, it should work on strengthening their catechism, as well. - Alessandro Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:25:28 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-modest-proposal-for-dialogue-at-notre-dame.html#comment-1273 Bravo! - Mary Z. McGrath Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:25:00 +0100