{"id":852,"date":"2009-04-01T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/04\/on-notre-dame-i-am-more-alarmed-that-the-rhetoric-is-so-uncivil-and-venomous.html"},"modified":"2009-04-01T07:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T07:14:00","slug":"on-notre-dame-i-am-more-alarmed-that-the-rhetoric-is-so-uncivil-and-venomous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/04\/on-notre-dame-i-am-more-alarmed-that-the-rhetoric-is-so-uncivil-and-venomous.html","title":{"rendered":"On Notre Dame: “I am more alarmed that the rhetoric is so uncivil and venomous…”"},"content":{"rendered":"
“Early ‘markers’ [of Obama’s record on the life issues] are not encouraging in this regard but hope needs to spring eternal and while Notre Dame may have acted way too early and too generously, I am more alarmed that the rhetoric being employed is so uncivil and venomous that it weakens the case we place before our fellow citizens, alienates young college-age students who believe the older generation is behaving like an angry child and they do not wish to be any part of that, and ill-serves the cause of life. Notre Dame has in the past and continues to give this local Church fine, professional and very Catholic women and men who both know and live out their faith. Most of them I know are ardently pro-life and like myself are probably disappointed with their alma mater. They and I will choose to convey our sadness to the Board of Trustees and Administration in a calm and dignified manner.”<\/div>\n

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— Bishop Robert Lynch<\/a> of St. Petersburg.
H\/T to Dave Gibson<\/a>. <\/div>\n

Speaking of “venomous rhetoric,” Archbishop Chaput talked about that right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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