Scandal.com Petition and MY comments

The Cardinal Newman Society and Catholic Vote.org haveposted the following recomendations--

1) Go to www.NotreDameScandal.com. Together our aim is to collect thousands of signatures and present them to University officials. Sign the petition now.
2) Contact Notre Dame (we're already doing that)
3) Join your fellow CatholicVote.org members in a prayer of reparation on May 17 from 2-4 PM. We encourage you to organize local groups to pray for mercy for the decision by Notre Dame, but also for our nation for continuing to permit the tragedy of abortion.
***If you live in the Midwest, or near Notre Dame University, we invite you to personally join us in prayer at the Grotto on the campus of Notre Dame from 2-4 PM on May 17, where we will be joined by several Notre Dame professors, alumni, and current students. The gathering will be a peaceful and prayerful.
4) Please forward this message to your family and friends. Let them know about Notre Dame's decision to honor the most pro-abortion President in American history. We must not remain silent over this scandal

MY COMMENTS:

Catholic vote and the Cardinal Newman society have done wonderful things and my hats off to them for responding to this scandal. I am not however in agreement with all their comments.

I definitely like the prayer idea but am convinced that the Grotto will not hold the massive numbers that BETTER make it to South Bend that weekend.

I couldn't disagree with them more that a protest "will give "the wrong impression". The only wrong impression has been the relative silence of the masses in the pews over such scandals.

I suspect a few too many lawyers who by nature tend to be overly cautious, were consulted before the recomendations were made.

Why let the University control things, up to and including limiting our even to the time the President is there?

There should be a massive rally on the Saturday before, followed by an even more massive, prayerful picket of the University whereever we are able to manage it.

All the better if we are able to do it on the campus, so we can prayerfully reconsecrate those hallowed grounds that have been scandalized by this decision. To reclaim them for Our Lady, whose name the University claims as it's own.

I resent the inference that if you have too many prolifers, or we are actually protesting while we pray, we might be violent, or give a bad impression. Here we have prolifers, before the fact, limiting themselves by saying the campus is off limits. The only BAD IMPRESSION is that it's taken us this long to publically and in massive numbers confront this particular EVIL.

We do not have a gentlemen's disagreement with the University. They are directly advancing the cause of EVIL, we are there to claim the cross of Jesus. Not "Touchdown jesus", but the Jesus who suffered and died on a real cross, far less concerned about impressions than He was about being faithful to His Father's will.

We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Our massive protest will involve plenty of singing and praying. We know that it is only with God's help that our efforts have any meaning. But when the boat is sinking, we can pray while we grab life vests and put the lifeboat overboard.

The University brags about divresity and encouraging dialogue, we should approach them EXPECTING a place for our rally. After all as faithful Catholics we have far more right to be on that campus than the man who repeatedly opposed the Infants Born Alive Act, and is waiting in the wings for the opportunity to sign FOCA.

And those prolifers who feel led to pray at the Grotto can and will pray for the thousands and thousands who will be protesting/praying elsewhere.

I'll admit my Irish is up, but I know I'm thinking clear on this one. If we can't even reclaim the Catholic identity of our Universities how in the world do we expect to effect change in our culture at large.