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Denver Archbishop on Notre Dame: Phony dialogue prostitutes Catholic identity and abdicates moral witness

By ADF Alliance Alert

Archbishop Chaput of the Roman Catholic Diocese has issued this statement that includes these excerpts: "And we also have the duty to avoid prostituting our Catholic identity by appeals to phony dialogue that mask an abdication of our moral witness. Notre Dame did not merely invite the president to speak at its commencement. It also conferred an unnecessary and unearned honorary law degree on a man committed to upholding one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in our nation?s history: Roe v. Wade . . . Notre Dame?s leadership has done a real disservice to the Church, and now seeks to ride out the criticism by treating it as an expression of fringe anger. But the damage remains, and Notre Dame?s critics are right . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).