William McGinn in the Wall Street Journal writes on Notre Dame University's appalling decision to invite President Obama to speak and award him an honorary degree:
In the end, the result is moral incoherence. It is an incoherence in which abortion-rights advocates have the most to gain, because it demoralizes those who support the cause of life while removing fears of even the slightest social sanction for those who do not. And it is an incoherence we see all across American Catholic life today.
In our intellectual life, this incoherence gives us a college president who tells the campus paper that honoring an abortion-rights president is consistent with the bishops' statement that such leaders "should not be given awards, honors, or platforms which would suggest support for their actions."
In our public life, it has brought us to a day where the most prominent Catholics in America -- from Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to virtually every well-known Irish Catholic in the Senate -- now defend the snuffing out of tens of millions of innocent human lives as the exercise of a fundamental right.
And on the Midwestern campus of the Golden Dome, it allows administrators and professors to tell themselves they are in "dialogue" with the spirit of John F. Kennedy when they are in fact surrendering to a Ted Kennedy reality they themselves have helped create.
CatholicVote.org has partnered with the Cardinal Newman Society, a dynamic organization dedicated to the renewal of Catholic higher education in establishing www.NotreDameScandal.com. Together their aim is to collect thousands of signatures and present them to University officials. Sign the petition now.
Also, contact Notre Dame and express your outrage. Contact Notre Dame President Father Jenkins at (574) 631-5000.
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Senin, 23 Maret 2009
Report: JFK's 'Love Child'
From Tom Leonard at Britain's Telegraph:
In the latest claim to emerge about the former US president's energetic love life, Lisa Lanett, an Austrian-born American, said she had a two-year affair with John F. Kennedy after they met in Phoenix, Arizona, during the Second World War.
Now 87, she told the Austrian newspaper Kurier that Kennedy, then a young and single US navy officer and long before he earned his reputation as a notorious womaniser, had offered to marry her when she became pregnant with their son, Tony, but she had turned him down.
He did, however, pay for the boy's education at Peekshill Military Academy, a private school outside New York, until the president's assassination in 1963, she said.
Tony Bohler, the alleged son, is now 63 and a retired art dealer living in California. Divorced and with two sons of his own, he told the newspaper he could never work out why he did not look like the Mexican-born man who his mother told him was his father.
"My mother always told me her former husband, Juan, was my father. I'd always had my doubts because he, being a Mexican, looked very Mexican." . . .
After a brief marriage to a Mexican, she moved to Phoenix where her mother ran a motel called the Monterey Lodge.
Kennedy moved to the city in 1943 while recuperating from back surgery after he was injured when his torpedo boat was rammed by a Japanese cruiser.
They fell in love and he took her for romantic trysts around America, she claimed.
"We went to Miami and New York, and spent a weekend in Cuba. In the spring of 1945, I realised that I was pregnant. I told John and he offered to marry me," she said.
"But I had a wonderful life to that point which I didn't want to give up. Marriage was out of the question for me."
She said that Kennedy continued to see his secret family "now and then" even after he embarked on a political career.
Mrs Lanett, who admitted that she had no way of proving her claims, said her son was adopted by his grandmother, Charlotte Bohler.
She provided no explanation as to why she had waited so long before coming forward with her claims. A DNA test could prove the truth of her assertion if compared to a sample provided by Caroline Kennedy, the late president's daughter.
In the latest claim to emerge about the former US president's energetic love life, Lisa Lanett, an Austrian-born American, said she had a two-year affair with John F. Kennedy after they met in Phoenix, Arizona, during the Second World War.
Now 87, she told the Austrian newspaper Kurier that Kennedy, then a young and single US navy officer and long before he earned his reputation as a notorious womaniser, had offered to marry her when she became pregnant with their son, Tony, but she had turned him down.
He did, however, pay for the boy's education at Peekshill Military Academy, a private school outside New York, until the president's assassination in 1963, she said.
Tony Bohler, the alleged son, is now 63 and a retired art dealer living in California. Divorced and with two sons of his own, he told the newspaper he could never work out why he did not look like the Mexican-born man who his mother told him was his father.
"My mother always told me her former husband, Juan, was my father. I'd always had my doubts because he, being a Mexican, looked very Mexican." . . .
After a brief marriage to a Mexican, she moved to Phoenix where her mother ran a motel called the Monterey Lodge.
Kennedy moved to the city in 1943 while recuperating from back surgery after he was injured when his torpedo boat was rammed by a Japanese cruiser.
They fell in love and he took her for romantic trysts around America, she claimed.
"We went to Miami and New York, and spent a weekend in Cuba. In the spring of 1945, I realised that I was pregnant. I told John and he offered to marry me," she said.
"But I had a wonderful life to that point which I didn't want to give up. Marriage was out of the question for me."
She said that Kennedy continued to see his secret family "now and then" even after he embarked on a political career.
Mrs Lanett, who admitted that she had no way of proving her claims, said her son was adopted by his grandmother, Charlotte Bohler.
She provided no explanation as to why she had waited so long before coming forward with her claims. A DNA test could prove the truth of her assertion if compared to a sample provided by Caroline Kennedy, the late president's daughter.
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