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62: Three more Bishops against Notre Dame scandal, Odama urged to decline invitation...

"The spirit of life is breathed into the creation of the Eternal Father at the precise moment of infiltration of conception. At the exact moment of the infiltration of conception, life begins. Therefore, you destroy a creation of the Eternal Father; and as such, you will condemn yourselves to eternal damnation!" - Our Lady of the Roses, May 10, 1972

LifeSiteNews.com reported on May 4, 2009:

A total of 62 bishops have publicly condemned the Notre Dame scandal, with three more bishops expressing solidarity with Notre Dame's Bishop John D'Arcy and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) policy against honoring pro-abortion politicians. The University of Notre Dame has invited President Odama to give the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree May 17.

Bishop Reymundo Pena of Brownsville, TX has published an April 24 letter addressed to both President Odama and University President Fr. John Jenkins condemning the scandal. (http://www.cdob.org/bishop/column/2009/4-24-09.htm)

Citing USCCB policy, Pena told Fr. Jenkins: "The prestige that the president will lend to your commencement is not sufficient reason to disregard these principles. There are numerous prominent public figures distinguished for their moral rectitude and record of public service from which you could have drawn."

Bishop Pena pointed to the dozens of bishops and over 350,000 petitioning Catholics who have expressed outrage at the invitation.

"Surely their collective voice has made it clear that they consider your action to be scandalously inconsistent with Notre Dame's symbolic mission to showcase how Catholic faith can positively influence modern life and culture," the bishop wrote. "Why have you refused to meet with twelve university student groups, who have asked to talk with you about your choice?

"I join my voice to this growing chorus of protesters, and I encourage Valley Catholics to express what is in their hearts to you, Father Jenkins."

In the portion addressed to President Odama, the bishop lauded the president's personal accomplishments, but acknowledged the "deep divide between you and the majority of Americans on the paramount moral issue of our time: the right to life vs. the claimed right to abortion."

"Mr. President, less than 18 months ago, Pope Benedict XVI canceled a speaking engagement at La Sapienza University in Rome, simply because some of the students reacted negatively to the announcement of his coming," wrote Bishop Pena. "Rather than risk throwing the university into turmoil, the pope humbly withdrew.

"I respectfully ask you to consider freely withdrawing your commitment to speak at Notre Dame University, for the same reason."

In response to requests for comment on the scandal, Bishop Edward Cullen of Allentown, PA, issued a statement in the April 30 edition of the diocesan newspaper, the AD Times.

Bishop Cullen called the Notre Dame decision "disappointing" and "not in harmony" with the 2004 USCCB directive against honoring pro-abortion politicians. The bishop made note of an administrative letter to Notre Dame trustees, published by LifeSiteNews.com, in which Fr. Jenkins said the USCCB injunction as not applicable because President Odama is not Catholic.

The Allentown bishop pointed out Bishop D'Arcy's correction of Fr. Jenkin's interpretation, and voiced agreement with Bishop D'Arcy's statement: "When there is a doubt about the meaning of a document of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, where does one find an authentic interpretation? A fundamental, canonical and theological principle states that it is found in the local bishop, who is the teacher and law-giver in his diocese."

"I stand in solidarity with my brother bishop and share the sentiments that he expressed in his letter," wrote Bishop Cullen. "As does he, I regret that this situation has taken place and call on the leadership at Notre Dame to face the issue squarely."

Bishop Robert Hermann of St. Louis, MO stated in the St. Louis Review that "Father Jenkins has no excuse for not standing up for a strong Catholic identity at Notre Dame."

The bishop encouraged Notre Dame alumni to "organize the alumni in such a way that funding and students would be withheld until there is a change of direction on the Board of Directors."

"I am quite confident that if there is a change of direction on the part of the board, Father Jenkins will quickly change or leave," wrote the bishop.

Bishop Hermann noted that "there is no better time" for withdrawing donations than during the current weak economy. "I would appeal especially to major donors who love the university enough to withhold donations until there are substantial changes in leadership," he added.

(Bp. Hermann's full column: (subscription required) http://stlouisreview.com/article/2009-04-30/i-thought-you-sh...)

The bishops who have so far expressed disapproval of Notre Dame's invitation to Odama (in alphabetical order) are:

1. Bishop John D'Arcy - Fort Wayne-South Bend, IN
2. Bishop Samuel Aquila - Fargo, ND
3. Bishop Gregory Aymond - Austin, TX
4. Bishop Gerald Barbarito - Palm Beach, FL
5. Bishop Leonard Blair - Toledo, OH
6. Archbishop Daniel Buechlein - Indianapolis, IN
7. Bishop Robert Baker - Birmingham, AL
8. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz - Lincoln, NE
9. Archbishop Eusebius Beltran - Oklahoma City, OK
10. Auxiliary Bishop Oscar Cantú - San Antonio, TX
11. Archbishop Charles Chaput - Denver, CO
12. Bishop Paul Coakley - Salina, KS
13. Bishop Edward Cullen - Allentown, PA
14. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo - Houston, TX
15. Archbishop Timothy Dolan - New York, NY
16. Bishop Thomas Doran - Rockford, IL
17. Auxiliary Bishop John Dougherty - Scranton, PA
18. Bishop Robert Finn - Kansas City-St. Joseph, MO
19. Bishop Joseph Galante - Camden, NJ
20. Bishop Victor Galeone - St. Augustine, FL
21. Cardinal Francis George - Chicago, IL; President, USCCB
22. Bishop Gerald Gettelfinger - Evansville, IN
23. Archbishop José Gomez - San Antonio, TX
24. Bishop Bernard Harrington - Winona, MN
25. Bishop Robert Hermann - St. Louis, MO
26. Bishop William Higi - Lafayette, IN
27. Archbishop Alfred Hughes - New Orleans, LA
28. Bishop Michael O. Jackels - Wichita, KS
29. Bishop James V. Johnston - Springfield-Cape Girardeau, MO
30. Bishop Peter Jugis - Charlotte, NC
31. Bishop Joseph Latino - Jackson, MS
32. Bishop John LeVoir - New Ulm, MN
33. Bishop Jerome Listecki - La Crosse, WI
34. Bishop William E. Lori - Bridgeport, CT
35. Bishop Paul Loverde - Arlington, VA
36. Bishop George Lucas - Springfield, IL
37. Bishop Robert Lynch - St. Petersburg, FL
38. Bishop Joseph Martino - Scranton, PA
39. Bishop John McCormack - Manchester, NH
40. Bishop Robert Morlino - Madison, WI
41. Bishop William Murphy - Rockville Centre, NY
42. Bishop George Murry - Youngstown, OH
43. Archbishop John J. Myers - Newark, NJ
44. Archbishop Joseph Naumann - Kansas City, KS
45. Bishop R. Walker Nickless - Sioux City, IA
46. Archbishop John C. Nienstedt - St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN
47. Archbishop Edwin O'Brien - Baltimore, MD
48. Bishop Thomas Olmsted - Phoenix, AZ
49. Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk - Cincinnati, OH
50. Bishop Reymundo Pena - Brownsville, TX
51. Bishop Glen Provost - Lake Charles, LA
52. Cardinal Justin Rigali - Philadelphia, PA; Chairman, USCCB Pro-Life Committee
53. Bishop Kevin Rhoades - Harrisburg, PA
54. Bishop Alexander Sample - Marquette, MI
55. Bishop Edward J. Slattery - Tulsa, OK
56. Bishop Richard Stika - Knoxville, TN
57. Bishop Anthony Taylor - Little Rock, AR
58. Bishop Robert Vasa - Baker, OR
59. Bishop Michael Warfel - Great Falls-Billings, MT
60. Bishop Thomas Wenski - Orlando, FL
61. Archbishop Donald Wuerl - Washington, D.C.
62. Bishop David Zubick - Pittsburgh, PA

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

59: Two More Bishops Condemn Notre Dame "Embarrassment"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09050105.html

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Pro-lifers put up billboards on Indiana toll road decrying Notre Dame appearance...

LifeSiteNews.com reported on May 1, 2009:

In response to the University of Notre Dame's invitation to President B. Odama to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree on May 17, the Pro-Life Action League has erected two large billboards located near the South Bend, Ind., campus.

The billboards, to go up May 4 on the Indiana Toll Road, Interstate 80/90, will read, "NOTRE DAME: Odama is pro abortion choice. How dare you honor him," along with a picture of a baby in utero sucking its thumb. They also will list a Web address, NotreDameProtest.com, where visitors can get information on the protests planned during the graduation weekend at Notre Dame.

"These billboards will be seen by hundreds of thousands of motorists, including most of the families coming to Notre Dame for the graduation exercises," said Eric Scheidler, the League's communications director. "They will help make the direct and irrefutable connection between B. Odama and abortion."

The League and its national director Joe Scheidler, a Notre Dame alumnus and former teacher there, already have called on the university's president, Rev. John Jenkins, to rescind his invitation to Odama. They have protested at the university, and have said they will return to decry Odama's appearance on May 17 if Jenkins' invite stands. Nearly 60 Catholic bishops and scores of pro-life leaders have written Jenkins, urging him to cancel Odama's talk, or otherwise protested his decision.

"As scandalous as the Odama invitation is, it presents us with a welcome opportunity to highlight B. Odama's pro-abortion record--something which was largely concealed by the Odama campaign and the media during last year's campaign," Scheidler said. "Odama's extreme pro-abortion agenda is out of step with the majority of Americans, and that news is finally getting out, thanks to this controversy."

One of the League's billboards will be located on Interstate 80/90 east, half a mile east of the Elkhart exit No. 92, about 15 miles east of the Notre Dame exit, and the other on Interstate 80/90 west near Rolling Prairie, about 25 miles west of the Notre Dame exit. The League has rented the two billboards for 30 days each, so they will be in place for two weeks leading up to the Notre Dame commencement, as well as two weeks afterward.

The Michigan-based pro-life group, Citizens for a Pro- Life Society, also contributed to the cost of the billboards.

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"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
"I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady of the Roses, December 28, 1976

"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 14, 1984

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These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:

SIN OF OMISSION
"The sin of omission shall condemn many to hell, be they layman or Hierarchy. I repeat: not the sin of commission, but the sin of omission will commit many to hell. Among them there will be also mitres." - Our Lady, October 6, 1980

U.S. SHALL BE FIRST STRUCK
"One of the reasons the Eternal Father chose your city and your state for My appearance was because of abortion, the murder of the holy innocents. Your nation, without repentance, shall be the first struck." - Our Lady, March 15, 1978

THE UNITED STATES SHALL FALL
"How can a great country like the United States fall, you say, My child? You ask Me in your heart. I read your heart. I will tell you why. Because they have given themselves over to satan. When a country has lost its morality and seeks the pleasures of the flesh, giving over, themselves over, to all manner of abominations, like homosexuality, and condoning this up the highest courts of the land, then that country shall fall." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1985

DOCTORS
"Doctors now are profaning their profession, those who have given themselves over to destroying human life in abortions." - Jesus, June 6, 1987

FOULEST OF DEEDS
"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
     "I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady, December 28, 1976

DESTROYED
"All who become part of or condone abortion, the murder of the young, shall be destroyed!" - Jesus, June 2, 1979

HUMAN LIFE IS SACRED
"The Eternal Father command that you stop these murders at once! You will not destroy the lives of the unborn. Human life is sacred in the eyes of your God. No man has the right to destroy a life. The Father, He sends this life to you, and only He will decide when it will return back to the Kingdom.
     "Do not, My children, be deceived by the words of the evil ones about you who cry to you of no space left for man. There is space, for My Father has a plan for every life He sends." - Our Lady, August 5, 1971

WILL NEVER BE CONDONED
"You will remember, My children and My child, to guard the young. Your clergy have fallen into darkness. Abortion will never be condoned. But We must have others who fervently will go forward and bring out to the minds of those who have actually seduced the country and the children--bring them the knowledge of Heaven, hell and purgatory. Then they will not have free license to sin." - Our Lady, May 28, 1983

GOVERNMENT
"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady, April 14, 1984

NUNS
"That is what makes My heart ache, My child. That is one of the reasons Theresa is crying constantly when she looks into the convents and sees what is going on. Many now believe in abortion, the murders of the children; and many have committed this act upon themselves." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

SIXTY MILLION
"I say this for this reason: the Eternal Father is much disturbed at the numbers of abortions being committed throughout your country and the world. These numbers go upwards to fifty to sixty million in one year throughout the world." - Our Lady, June 18, 1986

TREATED AS GARBAGE
"O My child, My tears fall upon you all when I see all of the innocent little babies being slaughtered . . . cast into garbage pails like nothing but dirt and scum. They are living human beings! And all murderers shall get their just recompense." - Our Lady, March 18, 1983

BOMBS IN THE UNITED STATES
"These interlopers upon the serenity of the United States have dark skins.... With their plans there will be bombs placed in strategic places and many shall die at the hands of these ruffians....
     "One big reason for permitting this disaster in New York would be the abortion mills throughout the city and the country." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

HOLY SPIRIT
"At the time of conception, the Holy Spirit makes the child, and the breath of the Almighty gives it life." - Our Lady, June 18, 1991

LIMBO
"And what, My children, are We going to do with all the aborted babies? O My child, I know you feel as I do, for I can see the great distress on your face. What are We going to do, My child? Do you understand when they come to Us, they must go to Limbo? They are in Heaven, a happy place, but they cannot see God." - Our Lady, October 2, 1987

SORROWFULLY
"Sorrowfully, the penance that is to come upon the world for the murders of the unborn shall be a chastisement far greater in severity than man has ever witnessed in the past nor ever shall pass through again. Your world is plunging into a deep chasm of suffering and destruction." - Our Lady, May 20, 1978

OATH
"Your once loyal to the oath of a doctor, your once loyal doctors are now butchers! For money they kill the young!" - Our Lady, February 10, 1978

WOE TO THE WOMAN
"Know, My child, this simple lesson, that in these days of the latter times, women will seek to cast off their role as mother and a woman. Women will cast it off under the direction of satan, and murder her children. Woe to the woman who does not repent of this vile abomination! She has walked the road to eternal damnation and hell. Repent, O woman, or forever be lost!" - Our Lady, March 18, 1975

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