Yet, Another Scandal at Notre Dame. Should It Be
Renamed Notre Shame?
"There is much needed in change. We
see, My children, in the schools, both your public schools and your private
schools, even those who call themselves Catholic--they are Catholic, My
children, in name only, for they have sold themselves for pieces of silver." - Our Lady of the Roses, December 31, 1974
The Controversy Over Notre Dame's Catholic, Pro-life Identity Continues...
National Catholic Register reported on June 10, 2011:
After critics conducted a month-long campaign that raised questions about
the suitability of a new member of the board of trustees of the University
of Notre Dame, Roxanne Martino abruptly resigned Wednesday.
Martino is a Notre Dame alumna and successful money manager who made
sizable donations to pro-abortion political-action committees.
The university posted a terse notice announcing the resignation on its
website: “Roxanne Martino has resigned from the University of Notre Dame
Board of Trustees, effective immediately, in the wake of reports criticizing
donations she has made to organizations that characterize themselves as
pro-choice.”
Martino’s resignation ended the latest chapter in an increasingly public
struggle over the religious identity and institutional direction of the
nation’s pre-eminent Catholic university. But critics vowed to continue to
challenge policies they view as hostile to the university’s storied legacy.
The campaign to expose troubling details about Martino’s history of
financial support for pro-abortion political organizations was initiated by
theCardinal Newman Society. Two years earlier, after Notre
Dame announced plans tohonor President Barack Obama at its
2009 commencement exercises, the Cardinal Newman Society launched a website
and a petition campaign that provided a forum for a groundswell of outrage
from Catholics who repudiated the president’s commitment to abortion rights.
Many U.S. bishops publicly rebuked the university.
Patrick Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society, expressed a
measure of relief that an individual with a history of financial support for
pro-abortion organizations would not be setting policy for the university.
But he asserted that the administration’s handling of the controversy
provided little reassurance that a broad reassessment of other troubling
actions was under way: “Since the Obama controversy, we have raised numerous
concerns that have been brushed off by the university. For example, Notre
Dame just announced that Daniel J. Myers, a sociology professor and
associate dean of the College of Arts and Letters — who had repeatedly
sponsored theVagina Monologues— has been
promoted to vice president and associate provost for faculty affairs.”
Ignorance an Excuse?
The Cardinal Newman Society and alumni groups concerned about Martino’s
record say their unease has been deepened by the university’s refusal to
address the charges leveled by critics in an open and transparent manner.
Both Martino and Richard Notebaert, chairman of the board of trustees,
also issued statements marking her resignation, but no apologies or
explanations were offered to the Notre Dame fellows that approved her
appointment or the concerned Notre Dame alumni who sought and received
assurance that she had not knowingly donated to pro-abortion organizations.
Nor did their public statements provide evidence to bolster perhaps the
most curious assertion made by university officials: Martino, a top
investment-fund executive with billions of dollars under management,
remained unaware of the political goals of Emily’s List and the
Chicago-based Personal PAC, despite donating an estimated $27,000 over many
years, increasing the likelihood that she would have received detailed
communications about their political mission.
“Ms. Martino has served Notre Dame in many ways over the years and is
highly regarded as someone who is absolutely dedicated in every way to the
Catholic mission of this university,” said Notebaert in a statement that
applauded the former trustee’s record of community service.
Martino’s statement stipulated that she remained “fully committed to all
aspects of Catholic teaching and to the mission of Notre Dame.” She did not
explain how she squared her Catholic faith with her financial commitments to
pro-abortion political groups.
Bill Dempsey, the president of the Sycamore Trust, a group of
reform-minded Notre Dame alumni who seek to strengthen the university’s
Catholic identity, suggested that the lack of transparency raised additional
questions.
“The university cannot even bring itself to concede that Emily’s List and
the Illinois State Personal Pac are pro-choice. The university says these
groups ‘characterize themselves as pro-choice,’ as in hesayshe
is Christian. Is the suggestion that Ms. Martino just did not believe them?”
observed Dempsey.
He noted that the statements issued by Martino and Notebaert made no
attempt to set the record straight about her contributions or how they might
pose problems for her appointment to the board of trustees of a Catholic
university.
“There is not the faintest hint that her actions bore upon her
qualifications for the board of the university,” said Dempsey. Rather, the
statements “seem to be saying that her association with pro-abortion
organizations is fully in harmony with the mission of this Catholic
university. Unhappily, this is of a piece with Mr. Notebaert’s actions,
joined in by Father Jenkins, throughout this scandalous episode.”
No Comment
Asked to respond to the concerns raised by the university’s critics,
Martino, Notebaert and Holy Cross Father John Jenkins, president of the
university, declined to comment. Dennis Brown, a university spokesman,
offered no additional information in an e-mail message: “We issued a news
release on this matter yesterday and have nothing more to add.”
The apparent disparity between the university’s press release and the
public record of Martino’s political contributions underscores the
challenges and opportunities created by the internet. It is a new era of
heightened transparency and faster distribution of reports and arguments
critical of institutions such as Notre Dame that once were able to withhold
sensitive information.
Holy Cross Father Bill Miscamble, professor of history and president of
the Notre Dame chapter of University Faculty for Life, spoke of the
controversy in a presentation at Alumni Day in May. He spoke of the need to
keep Notre Dame a pro-life institution as part of its Catholic identity.
Several members of the Board of Trustees were present at Father Miscamble’s
talk.
This week, Father Miscamble said he was “grateful” that Martino “had the
decency to resign from the board of trustees, but very disappointed that she
included no apology in her statement for her sad record of donations to
Emily’s List and other virulently pro-abortion PACs like Illinois State
Personal PAC.”
“There is clearly a need for a serious investigation as to how this
appointment was made and how similar appointments can be avoided in the
future. Such action will be supported by all those who love Notre Dame and
want it to be an unambiguously pro-life institution,” said Father Miscamble.
The Cardinal Newman Society, which is in the process of increasing its
journalistic investigations of Catholic colleges’ policies and practices,
began researching Martino, president and chief executive officer of Aurora
Investment Management, shortly after her appointment to the board of
trustees was announced in late April.
Subsequently, the Newman Society posted the results of an Internet search
of Martino’s political contribution history on City-Data.com, which revealed
sizable donations to Emily’s List between 2005 and 2008. On its website,
Emily’s List states that it is “dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic
women to office.”
In the wake of the 2009 controversy provoked by Obama’s presence at the
commencement exercises, Father Jenkins appointed a “Task Force on Supporting
the Choice for Life” to identify ways for Notre Dame to “increase and
manifest” a commitment to a culture of life. In 2010, the university
also published the task force’s “Institutional Statement Supporting the
Choice for Life” and the “University of Notre Dame Principles for
Institutional Charitable Activity.”
Committed alumni like Bill Dempsey and Bill McGurn —The
Wall Street Journalcolumnist and former speechwriter for
George W. Bush who wrote awidely circulated op-ed for the
National Catholic Registerdemanding answers to questions about
Martino’s political donations are enthusiastic about a new initiative, the
Guadalupe Project, which will form and train a new generation of pro-life
leaders at the South Bend campus.
Martino’s resignation has closed one chapter in the fight to shore up
Notre Dame’s Catholic identity. But Dempsey still wants answers to some
troubling questions.
“We still don’t know what information Father Jenkins or Mr. Notebaert had
when they put this information out to the Notre Dame fellows — the people
who elect members of the board of trustees. But we do know that the fellows
claim they didn’t know about Ms. Martino’s contributions.”
Lying Father Jenkins Must Go...
National Catholic Register by Pat Archbold reported on June 12, 2011:
I believe that Roxanne Martino, the University of Notre Dame Trustee who
just resigned over her support of virulently pro-abortion groups, was just a
mere symptom of a much greater disease.
Something has been sticking in my craw these last few days. It is this
line used by Martino in her resignation statement and is similar to the
defense mounted for her by Fr. Jenkins and his minions on the Notre Dame
Board.
“In the best interests of the University, I regretfully have decided
to step down from the Notre Dame Board of Trustees,” Martino said in the
statement. “I dearly love my alma mater and remainfully
committed to all aspects of Catholic teachingand to the
mission of Notre Dame. I had looked forward to contributing in this new
role, but the current controversy just doesn’t allow me to be
effective.”
I remain fully committed to all aspects of Catholic teaching. Aspects? If
my wife quizzed me on whether I am a faithful husband and I responded by
saying, “Honey, I remain fully committed to all aspects of our
marriage vows,” she would slap my face and run off crying.
The only people who say I remain fully committed to all aspects of
something are people who are not fully committed to some aspects.
Truth be told, when it comes to Catholic teaching, this phraseology is as
close as you can to saying “seamless garment” without getting invited to
Father Fr. Pfleger’s house for dinner and some light meditation.
Father Jenkins, President of Notre Dame, and Richard Notebaert, chairman
of the University’s board of trustees, used similar language in their
defense of Martino saying that she is fully committed to Church teaching on
human life while she sent gobs of money to groups whose sole reason for
being is to promote killing babies. This is similar to the defense that
Notre Dame launched when it invited the virulently pro-abortion Barack Obama
to speak at commencement and receive an honorary degree. Some people have
tried to dull the sharp edge of the obvious and call it dissembling. I call
it lying. Do you know what you call people who repeatedly lie? You call them
liars, that is what you call them.
Father Jenkins is a liar**. Father Jenkins must go.
How can the flagship Catholic University in the country have a priest who
has proven to be a serial liar on the most important moral issue of the day?
It is untenable.
When Father Jenkins looks into the eyes of those rightfully outraged and
says with Weiner-esque chutzpah that Martino is pro-life and did not know
that Emily’s list supports abortion, he proves himself to be a liar and
completely unfit for the office that he holds.
This is why there is no statement from Notre Dame regretting their error
and vowing to fix the process leading to this horrendous error. It was not
an error. They knew. They did not care, or worse. Moreover, they lied about
it. No amount of spin can change this simple fact.
George O’Leary was fired from a Notre Dame coaching job for lying about
things he had not done. Father Jenkins remains president of Notre Dame by
lying about things he has done.
All money to Notre Dame from Catholics, who do not just support merely
aspects of Catholic teaching but are simply Catholics, needs to cease
immediately. Protests should be mounted and petitions signed. Whatever it
takes. We want our Catholic University back.
Father Jenkins must go.
** Author Pat Archbold says: - This piece represents my own opinion and not necessarily the view of
the National Catholic Register. Although they should agree, ‘cause I am
right.
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I believe that Roxanne Martino, the University of Notre Dame Trustee who
just resigned over her support of virulently pro-abortion groups, was just a
mere symptom of a much greater disease.
