Notre Dame Double Take
I haven’t felt compelled to say anything regarding the Notre Dame/Obama scandal because I believe our bishops have already been doing an excellent job. However Bishop D’Arcy’s latest comments left me scratching my head:
“This is giving a Doctor of Laws to a person whose only experience with laws, in the state legislature and here, has been anti-life laws,” said Bishop D’Arcy in an interview with a local television station. “It’s saying to the young people, ‘Well, it’s okay, it really doesn’t matter.’”
Okay, so far so good…
Bishop D’Arcy added that “he does not believe Notre Dame should suffer a penalty” according to WNDU-TV.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold on! Excuse me, Excellency, but didn’t you just implicitly say that it is not okay to tell the young people to carry on like “it really doesn’t matter” yet you believe no penalty should be assigned… as if it doesn’t really matter?
Here’s the problem, folks – the Catholic community can rant and rage and issue statements all they want but until someone does something and acts on their words it will only fall on deaf ears. Alumni need to stop contributing, parents need to stop sending their kids there or even withdraw them, and bishops need to be forthright that they hold the right to the title “Catholic” and be willing to exercise it.
Sticks and stones…