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Notre Dame Switchboard Overwhelmed 3/21/2009 - 9:10 PM PST
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA ADVISORY
Catholic PRWire
Notre Dame Grads Condemn Obama Decision
Detroit/South Bend (March 21, 2009) - As of late Friday night, hundreds of callers had overwhelmed the switchboard at Notre Dame as news began to circulate that Obama had been invited to give the commencement address at Notre Dame on May 17th. Sources at Notre Dame as well as the White House late Friday afternoon confirmed the invitation had been extended and accepted.
ND operators said the calls simply became too much to handle. Voice mails of the University President, Vice-President, Provost, assistant-provost and PR director were all full by 10pm EST. Operators were suggesting that callers try again on Monday when university officials would be back in their offices.
All the calls were expressing outrage. None supported the decision.
Two Notre Dame alumni who own and operate the world’s first Catholic internet TV station www.realcatholictv.com both immediately denounced the university’s decision to award Barack Obama honors and give him a stage from which to speak.
Marc Brammer, ND Class of ’74 and MBA’76 and Michael Voris ’83 each called the move a disgrace and a smear on the University’s reputation of being a Catholic school.
Voris discovered the news while live on the air with Relevant Radio’s Drew Mariana while he was being interviewed about the week’s news. “While I was actually on the air with Drew”, Voris said, “I shot off an email to Fr. Jenkins (ND President) expressing my deep anger that the carnage done to the Faith by Notre Dame is continuing.”
Voris shared the text of his email – It is beyond sinful that a University dedicated to the Mother of God, in whose womb the salvation of the world became incarnate, would give a platform to the biggest enemy of life in the womb this country has ever seen.
“This is a direct slap in the face to all who venerate the Mother of God. To be honoring a man who continues to do everything in his power to destroy the fundamental essence of motherhood through abortion,” said Brammer, “shows just how much the University has lost its moral bearings.”
RealCatholicTV.com has pledged its support to encouraging protests and condemnation of the Obama visit.
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Comments
if he speaks at ND i will cut my church donations by 50% or more.
john lido | 5/15/2009
I join other Catholics in expressing my outrage at the Notre Dame's decision. Obama's position on abortion is contrary to the Church's teaching.
Charles R. Reed | 3/30/2009
So many parents do without so much to place our children in CATHOLIC SCHOOLS because of the brainwashing that is going on in public schools. You have a responsibility to make sure that the message he sends is one that is an honest representation of the values he really has and is not one that lies to everyone about what he really stands for to make it look as though he is a friend to all!
So one day Obama's children may go to him and say, Daddy, if it was not a good time in your life to have me, I/we would not be alive today? Do I have any siblings that were not conceived at a CONVENIENT time and are no longer alive? What could the man honestly answer to question number one? I wonder in the long run, how this will affect his children's self image when they really learn what message he is sending to America. After all, they are the ones whose lives were at stake when the CHOICE was up to him and Michelle. I do not agree with the decision to have him honored at ND.
peg | 3/28/2009
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