New ND Response video features Pro-Life Action League’s Ann Scheidler
Posted by Eric Scheidler (May 5, 2009 at 11:33 am)
Today the Notre Dame student coalition opposing Barack Obama’s commencement address, ND Response, came out witha video on the controversy which includes several statements from the Ann Scheidler. The footage was shot on April 5, during ND Response’s Palm Sunday rally on campus, which Ann and League founder Joe Scheidler both participated in.
The video was released this weekend in advance of the official announcement of ND Response’s plans on campus for graduation weekend. Meanwhile, our plans here at N.D. Protest are already in place for a massive demonstration off campus, after which we will join the ND response group on campus.
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I cannot belive the school is letting people slander their name, and i bet law suits will come from this. “Notre Dame is a catholic institution, but is not only for catholics.” Direct quote from a Notre Dame Professor. Not everyone who goes to school at Notre Dame is pro-life, neither are the professors, or the hundreds of people who work there in a non-educational format. So much for tolerance and so much for respect for the office of the President of the USA. well i hope you guys have a lot of security and are on your toes, i just returned from South Bend and the vast majority of people i talked to are not going to be very welcoming to your group. i know i sure won’t be.
May 5th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
ABORTIONS FOR ALL!!!!!
May 5th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
John,
What precisely in this video struck you as “slanderous”?
May 6th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
As a recent revert to the Catholic faith, I have been following the travesty pulled off by the Notre Dame administration with the Obama invite very closely because it contains many of the elements that pushed me to a 10 plus year journey into agnosticism then atheism.
I was born, raised and baptized a Catholic in Spain almost 35 years ago. My journey away from the Catholic faith started in college, a public university near my hometown, where I was introduced to an intellectual atmosphere that despised belief in God, and particularly Catholic teachings. Amongst the numerous reasons I was pointed out about how the Catholic faith was just an invention created by the powerful elite were the numerous contradictions of the Church through its history, from its being adopted by the Roman Empire at the time of the emperor Constantine, to the selling of indulgences during the Middle Ages to more recently its closely related links to dictatorial regimes such as Francisco Franco’s. While those who criticize the Catholic Church in those terms quite often forget the extraordinary work done by the Catholic clergy all around the world assisting the most needy in society, it’s nonetheless important to understand the effect that such criticism can have in young minds such as those who will be attending this year’s commencement at Notre Dame to receive their well earned degrees.
Few teachings are more fundamental in Catholic doctrine than the evil of abortion. Moreover, some of the strongest language that the Bible puts in the mouth of Jesus Christ can be found precisely to warn those who cause children or young people to sin: Mark 9, 42 “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe (in me) to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.”
How can the Notre Dame administration led by Father Jenkins invite Mr Obama to give a commencement address in spite of such warning is a mystery to me.
Mr Obama is a declared pro abortionist who as recently as April 2009 reaffirmed his anti life stance. He eloquently described his radical views in the Illinois senate in 2002 when he expressed his reason for voting against that state’s version of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, a law which would have required doctors to save the life of babies who survived abortion procedures, “[A]dding a - an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion. . I think it’s important to understand that this issue ultimately is about abortion and not live births.”
Students, and young people at large, who are watching the Catholic establishment at Notre Dame compromise one of the Church’s most sacred teachings for the sake of having Notre Dame’s name associated with a popular president will be automatically led, as I was, to question the veracity of those teachings. When those young people begin to question the veracity of the Church’s teachings, they will be then led to question the authenticity of the Church, Jesus Christ and whole idea of God. Put bluntly, the Notre Dame administration, with his decision of inviting Mr Obama as a commencement speaker, is inciting many young people around America to question our faith’s tenants.
My way back to belief, and Catholicism, was prompted two years ago by the tragic death of two young friends of mine who died in unexpected circumstances. After struggling with the whole issue of God for two years, I decided that I could not let past and present travesties, such as the current Notre Dame administration, to be an obstacle to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. I began attending weekly Sunday mass during the summer of 2008. Approximately 1 month ago, I went through the sacrament of confession and took communion for the first time in 15 years.
As somebody who was contaminated by the same type of hubris and arrogance exhibited by Father Jenkins I can tell you that compromising the Church’s teachings will have its consequences in the lives of many of those attending this year’s commencement. The Notre Dame administration should do the right thing and rescind the invitation to Mr Obama for he cannot be of any inspiration to Notre Dame graduates as long as Notre Dame considers itself a Catholic institution.
Saint Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians, was very clear on how to deal with idolaters such as the Notre Dame administration “I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people, not at all referring to the immoral of this world or the greedy and robbers or idolaters; for you would then have to leave the world. But I now write to you not to associate with anyone named a brother, if he is immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a robber, not even to eat with such a person.” During the first century AD, the Church of Corinth was facing challenges which were no less phenomenal in scope than those faced by our society today. The Notre Dame administration has no excuse not to follow Saint Paul’s instructions in the case of the Obama travesty.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:16 am
GRADUATING SENIORS: Stand Up for your religion !!!
Protest Obama at Notre Dame by:
STANDNG WHEN OBAMA BEGINS TO SPEAK AND TURN YOUR BACK
ON HIM…REMAIN STANDING WITH YOUR BACK TO HIM UNTIL HE
FINISHES SPEAKING. DO NOT SHAKE HANDS WITH HIM WHEN YOU
CROSS THE STAGE FOR YOUR HONORS.
This will SEND a POWERFUL message to him and the world
that you do not approve of his abortion policies !!!
May 9th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Informative article. I really enjoyed it.
February 25th, 2010 at 7:24 pm