Step 3: Prayer and fasting.

At least Jenkins will have a job under Obama

Jenkins, Keehan, et al. remind me of an abused dog—cowering before its master, but still wagging its tail; actually grateful that the hand that strikes us will occasionally throw us a scrap. If they have lost the Faith it is a supreme tragedy; but perhaps they can buy—or at least rent—some self-respect. Pitiful.

I wonder what it would take for Notre Dame to get a new president….  I’m sure there are good people who work there, but does their entire board think the same way as Fr. Jenkins?

You may want to ask the same from the pastors of Card. Wuerl in the Archdiocese of Washington D.C.

http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2012/02/are-card-wuerls-pastors-closet-obama.html

Take a look at the Notre Dame website.  Jenkins calls the “compromise” on February 10th a “welcome step”.  I bet him and Keehan are breathing a sigh of relief that Obama threw them a bare bone on the 10th.  Obama and the Democratic party are purposely trying to split the liberal Catholics away from the Bishops.  Of course the Bishops are partly to blame for decades of not following Rome themselves.

step 3:  Resign

Fr. Frank, you are so right…sadly.

How do we defend consciences that don’t want to be defended? Jenkins is more concerned with the political sensibilities of the broader academic culture, and his non-Catholic, quasi-Catholic, and Catholic in name only faculty and donor base. Keehan at CHA is more concerned with keeping in Obama’s good graces, and in the good graces of the lay-dominated corporate boards who run most all of the “Catholic” hospitals. And while we can talk all we like about how “Catholics” have enough numerical strength to swing an election, if we think that’ll happen in November, we’re kidding ourselves. Paul Kengor in NRO last week diagnosed things well :“ure, Obama won a majority of Catholic voters in November 2008; those voters effectively made him president. However, many of those Catholic voters are oblivious Catholics, apathetic Catholics, and self-identified Catholics who are not very serious about their faith and the Church’s teachings. Aside from them, to be fair, there are Obama-voting Catholics who are serious Catholics but liberal/“social-justice” Catholics who thumb their noses at the Church’s teachings on moral issues such as abortion and contraception. Still, too, some of the Obama-voting Catholics are old-time, elderly, blue-collar Catholics who vote Democrat because their union told them to do so 50 years ago. This latter group is enormously frustrating. They’re super-conservative, but they vote Democrat because that’s what they’re supposed to do. They will do so until the day they die.”

It would be too little too late. Fr. Jenkins must be removed from the University.

Most likely he has not signed the letter because he does not agree with it and he thinks the mandate from the HHS is just fine and dandy. By the way he most likely not listen to the complaints and sign the letter or resign. He loves Obama and that is why he allowed him to come to Notre Dame three years ago and also give him a degree on top of that.

Step 4. Sackcloth and Ashes

step 5: Prayer and penance.

It appears that Fr Jenkins may be another Ernesto Cardenal.

This situation at ND will not change overnight. It will take years, perhaps decades to change.  Remember, it was Fr. Hesburgh who started ND down this path in the 50s.  Slowly but surely he convinced fellow priests within CSC to give up control of ND and put it into the hands of the BoT(Board of Trustees).  Then, he went about remaking the BoT to where it is today.  When Fr. Hesburgh is gone, the change can begin.  But it will take a long, long time to undo the mess he has made to the Catholic identity of ND.  I think the first item to do is for the Bishop to strip ND of its use of the word Catholic.  Let ND be known for what it is at the moment, a wanna be ivy league midwestern university.

Mr. Jenkins, I refuse to call this man a priest, is like many CINO’s, one who has infiltrated the Church with the intent to destroy it from within.  News flash to Jenkins and his ilk - GOD WINS.  No one will destroy HIS CHURCH.  In actuality, GOD will bring out of these evil times, good men & women who willingly carry their CROSS and DEFEND their faith.  As for those like Jenkins, Obama, the Clintons, Peolosi, Biden, pray for them.  Pray with all your heart and soul that their eyes and ears are finally opened the TRUTH - not the world’s truth but GOD’s TRUTH.

Jenkins, Keehan, Kmiec, Sebilius, Pelsoi, Biden and the rest of the Judas’ goats are frauds to their Faith.  They are Obama’s legs!!! If these frauds are allowed to continue to pretend that they alone generate Catholic doctrine (as opposed to the bishops) to the folks in the pews… the bishops will lose this fight in the hearts and souls of young Catholics.  The poorly catechized Catholics assume that the church is a democracy.  The louder the political Judas’ goats rationalize Obama’s anti-Catholic attack… the more confused the uninformed Catholics in the pews are.  For the sake of the future of the Catholic Church in America… cut off the legs if these heretics do not recant quickly & publicly.

Seeing as how Obama is going all Henry VIII’th on the Catholic Church, perhaps he’s shooting for creating an American version of the Church of England, and Jenkins is angling for the American version of the job of Archbishop of Canterbury?

“what you are going to do, do quickly”

Who is the president of ND’s Bishop?  Does he have authority over this priest and or ND?  What about the order that Father Jenkins is a part of?  Who is that leader?  Can’t they order him to sign or fire him from the Presidency?  Why did no one step in when President Obama was to be conferred an honorary Doctorate?  Maybe an Archdiocese of high level priests and nuns needs to be created like the Archbishop of the Armed services so that they are held accountable for their actions or lack thereof.  If I have over stepped my bounds as a lay catholic in writing this comment, I submit to correction.  I am pretty sure though that he has taken a vow of obedience to someone.

Chris, he isn’t cool enough to be Henry VIII—Oliver Cromwell’s more like it. At least Henry had a sense of style. ;-)

Fr. Jenkins is a Progressive Catholic that is more progressive than Catholic.

Chris, I’ve wondered about that for some time also.  Holy Cross no longer controls the University but they still require their priests to obedience to the order.  They can and should have reassigned Fr Jenkins even if they don’t have the power to select the next president directly.

Obama:  Your employees will obtain free contraception, sterilization, and abortions.
Catholics:  That’s wrong.
Obama:  You won’t pay for it, your insurance company will.  That’s a good compromise.

Creepy 40 year old guy:  Your 15-year-old daughter will have sex with me.
Me:  That’s wrong.
Creepy 40 year old guy:  If she gets pregnant, I’ll pay for the abortion.  That’s a good compromise.

fr. jenkins, who has almost single handedly besmirched the reputation
of a once great catholic university must also resign.
he himself, in accordance with canon law, excommunicated himself, latae
sientae (sp?) meaning he excommunicated himself by his own actions.have a good year. (ali)

Even more disheartening is that De Paul here in Chicago already offers insurance that covers birth control, etc.

Remember! Judas portrayed himself as an apostle. Beside’s, satan needs to find productive positions of influence to fill for his quest to destroy mankind. Unfortunately,some people never know that they are being ‘dupped’.

Bishop Rhoades,Ft. Wayne - South Bend Diocese, is very close to what is the University of Notre Dame.  He said it best when asked about Father Jenkins.  He said, leave the man alone, he is very pro-life.  The Bishop is frequently on campus and in South Bend.

The scandal of Jenkins goes on, doesn’t it? 

Remember that he was re-appointed to his post for another term only a few months after his conferring of an honorary degree upon President Obama, while simultaneously having pro-life demonstrators arrested on Notre Dame’s campus. 

Let’s face it:  There are apostates within the Church.  They are numerous, and in many cases they have risen through the ranks. 

I believe that in addition to Jenkins, many nuns (such as Carol Keehan) and even Bishops and Cardinals no longer believe what the Church teaches to be true, if ever they did. 

Many of these people are on a “mission” to “convert” the Church—actually, to subvert it, to transform it into their own twisted vision of what Catholicism “should” be.  Think of how many rank-and-file Catholics you know who have said something on the order of, “You know, the Church is going to have to change; it is ‘behind the times.’”  For all the lay people who believe this, there are undoubtedly many clergy and religious—Bishops included—who believe this; and who believe that they are right and the Church is wrong; and that it is their mission in life to “drag” the Church, by hook or crook, into the 21st century, primarily by renouncing the first 20 centuries. 

These people are the weeds growing amidst the wheat.  Jesus did say to let the weeds grow alongside the wheat.

But, Jesus also said (Matthew chapter 18, vv. 15- 18) that we have an obligation to correct overt sin; even to the point of:  “...treat him like a gentile…” (i.e., excommunication).

Far, far too cowardly have our Bishops been in their duty, publicly, to excommunicate apostates like Jenkins and Keehan.  And to do so using that exact word:  “Excommunicate.”  Why do our bishops shun that word?  Why do they namby-pamby about, saying something like, “She has excluded herself from communion with the Church” (in reference to Sebelius)?

Why are overt apostates like Ted Kennedy given a hero’s send-off?

Scandal has consequences; and uncorrected scandal has even worse consequences.  Because it calls into question the very legitimacy of the Church’s blessing by Jesus, that the gates of Hell would not prevail against her.  Oh, the institution survives, to another day, another year, another century.  But, in the meantime, millions of people live and die never knowing the truth because the Church has pussy-footed around, afraid to “offend” anyone.

See Fr Jenkins’ letter at
http://president.nd.edu/assets/50056/comments_from_rev_john_i_jenkins_notre_dame_3_.pdf

Fr Jenkins has written the Secretary of HHS already last year.  While any movement may be a “welcome step,” he probably also realizes it falls far short of what he asked for.

This issue is a good time to look at differences in style: Fr Jenkins appears to be trying to communicate with the Obama administration in their own language, very clearly pointing to the fact that the Church accepts and promotes truly “preventative services” but not contraception.

Many of the negative comments on here seem to want a fight.  This is part of what’s wrong with politics in this country.  Let’s all strive to be mature in Christ rather than merely fighting political battles.

FYI, President Keefe of the University of Dallas has joined with Bishop Farrell of Dallas to publicly denounce the HHS rules.  UDallas was not on the list of signatories to the letter reported above but I couldn’t help putting in a plug for this faithful Catholic college.  God knows there are plenty of CINO Colleges.

Our representative of the Catholic Church, Father Jenkins, is neither.
He is a disgrace to Catholicism and should be ejected.

ND is a product of the times, it took 2000 years to get to this point and it will take another 2000 to get back to the Orthodoxy Christ gave us; I pray that I will follow without being forced, and in my joy, inspire and motivate others to do the same. We can’t run and hide, we need to face the challenges directly, retake the university, one student at a time!

In light of the previous comments, I believe this is something we should reflect upon.
“Vatican City, Nov 24, 2010 / 03:48 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict focused today on the life of St. Catherine of Siena, saying that although the 14th century mystic was “aware of the human failings of the clergy,” she had the “greatest reverence” for them.” ... “This, he explained, is “because through the Sacraments and the Word they dispense the salvific power of the Blood of Christ.” Prayers for our priests are greatly needed, Fr. Jenkins included.

It is time to clean house. Jenkins, Keehan, and all Catholics not obedient to the Magisterium, acting in defiance of its teachings, must go. It will be a smaller Church but purer. Having assassins within destroys our credibility and our honor.

Maybe his right hand is too busy fondling an alter boy.

I sometimes wonder where some of our priests get their “catholic” education from.  I realize that they are subject to the same failings and temptations that the rest of us are, but come on Fr. Jenkins, take a hit in your pride for Christ and his Church and sign the letter.  Get back on the side of the faithful angels.

When are these mamby-pamby Bishops actually going to get serious about this and have the guts to demand that all of us Catholics drop our employer-sponsored health insurance that covers birth control and go buy our own insurance plans?.  This has always been a travesty.

Hail, full of Grace,...

Fr. Jenkins is a nominal Catholic.