So why these words?

"...a healthy 50 percent of its faculty is non-Catholic."

Why is that "healthy?" Care to explain?

How many of the faculty at the American Jewish University are non-Jewish? 50%? If it were so, would you write that this is "healthy?"

Oops, that didn't even work in Sarah Palins Republican world! Where they shoot wolves from helicopters to keep the population down! The cat just had kittens under the porch, again.

Let's breed more people to shoot in the war for the disappearing natural resources of banker bail-outs! Yeah, you know, the starvation and disease that pays for corporate/political corruption!

You sick people cringe at the site of a ketchup covered doll in a stroller, while children die! Not one of you have seen an Amercan Ghetto, where drug trade is the best way out!

Boo-hoo, my politics don't work anymore!

I trust that there is a blanket of security for the Notre Dame commencement today. There has not been the anti-choice violence recently that we have seen in the past, but I sure don't trust that crowd of terrorist loonies of the extreme right who feel that no violent act is beyond their moral right to commit.

I am sure all (news) eyes will be on Obama and Notre Dame for the next 7-10 days, and we can all discuss how enlightened and reasonable President Obama is, and how stupid and lame the Catholic Church is.

This is a nice distraction from the real news of the Obama Administration - that he is just like Bush, the he is breaking his campaign promises about torture, Guantanamo, and Iraq. That he is really no different than the previous administration, from illegal wiretapping to torture to protecting a criminal corporate banking system. That is the real news. So keep focusing on this, because it means nothing. And that is exactly what they want you to do - to focus on nothing.

I trust that there is a blanket of security for the Notre Dame commencement today.There has not been the anti-choice violence recently that we have seen in the past, but I sure don't trust that crowd of terrorist loonies of the extreme right who feel that no violent act is beyond their moral right to commit.

He's the President of the United States. Security will be no more, and no less, than if he were speaking at Cleveland State.

Before his conversion to Catholicism, Terry backed capital punishment, which is NOT in line with the Catholic Church's stand against it. The Church is pretty consistently pro-life, from cradle to grave, and does not endorse capital punishment or even war. Witness John Paul II's unsuccessful attempt to persuade Bush not to invade Iraq. And Bush, who also signed more death-row executions than any previous Texas governor, was invited to Notre Dame with no protest of any kind, which itself is a kind of hypocrisy. Unless Terry's conversion is complete, and he decries any sort of violence, including against doctors who provide abortions, the execution of death-row inmates which he once approved, or violent demonstrations, he is a hypocrite. But then, in the "pro-life" movement, that is not unusual.

Most people don’t know it but Randall Terry was no more than a pie baker when he got started in the antiabortion movement. His family owned a small but very prosperous bakery that was famous for it’s pies. I think the name was McHaffie’s Pies, or something like that. I went there once, he waited on me and I was not impressed with his product so I never went back. He sold the family company some years ago then began selling either insurance or some type of investments, trying to capitalize on his short-lived fame. Of course his customer base was the church and he tried to trick the members into buying his crap. The man is a total demagogue.

While I am never one to hope someone fails in life if Mr. Terry insist on pursuing his goal of controlling everybody else’s body while denying anybody the right to control his body I’ll have to seriously wish for his complete and total failure. Republicans are so cute, like little dumb hood ornaments. They love to tell you what to do while simultaneously holding on to their right to do WHATEVE THE HELL THEY WANT----GO FIGURE!

All the wing-nut extremist Catholics seem to be converging on South Bend at once...where were they to protest the death penalty loving, presumptive war-mongering, lack-of-compassion Methodist Cowboy President who courted evangelical anti-Catholics one day, and ecclesiastic tunnel visionaries like Alan Keyes and his ilk the next? Obama is going to trump their agenda today big time and further isolate them from the majority of Catholics who grapple with their ethical dilemmas in all the available shades of gray.

But, they should not be conferring an honorary degree on him, which implies approval of his body of work which does include, whether you personally agree or not , behavior contrary to fundamental moral principles of the Catholic Church, even if, in your view, those principles are quite marginal.

So why was George W. Bush honored at Notre Dame? He is pro-war, pro-torture and rabidly pro-death penalty. Are all of those completely in accord with the fundamental moral principles of the Catholic Church?

Why won't any of the Catholic drones protesting this issue address that point, and where were they when Bush was invited to speak?

He's the President of the United States. Security will be no more, and no less, than if he were speaking at Cleveland State.

-- Steele The First

Steelie, you can't be serious!!! Obama's appearance at Notre Dame, after weeks of anti-abortion crazies beeing emotionally stoked up into a full lather and biting carpets in every room will be the same as going to Cleveland State? I sure hope the Secret Service and the South Bend cops are more insightful of the dangers of rightwing extremists than you are, pal!

why Terry is pushing around strollers with blood-spattered babies (i.e. born children who are weeks or months old), since they aren't what's being aborted. Why doesn't he make dolls of two month fetuses and put those on display? Or heck, why not just wheel around a stroller full of blood-spattered fertilized eggs, since they're exactly the same as a born child?