U.S. News & World Report
By Dan Gilgoff News that President Barack Obama will deliver this year's commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, a prestigious Roman Catholic institution, has triggered denunciations from at least nine American bishops.
FOXNews
The Catholic Spirit
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New York Times
By DIRK JOHNSON SOUTH BEND, Ind. - As church bells pealed, Claire Gillen, a Notre Dame freshman, stood on the stone steps of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, accusing this fabled Roman Catholic institution of sin and sacrilege.
USA Today
Observer Online
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Los Angeles Times
Attempts to disinvite the president as commencement speaker are an unwelcome intrusion of religion into academic life. After Barack Obama was elected president, Pope Benedict XVI sent him a congratulatory letter.
Indianapolis Star
The Daily Collegian Online
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Washington Post
By Kenneth L. Woodward The nation's Catholic bishops have another sticky issue on their plates. President Obama has accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame in May and to receive the customary honorary …
FOXNews
Philadelphia Inquirer
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FOXNews
For decades, Notre Dame has stood out as the cultural jewel of American Catholicism-public evidence the great American experiment is compatible with, and indeed enriched by, distinctly Catholic values.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Arizona Republic
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Chicago Tribune
Some Fighting Irish are fighting mad about the prospect of an American president addressing graduates at the spring commencement. Should Roman Catholic colleges and universities roll out the red carpet for a sitting president if he doesn’t agree with …
CNN
The Associated Press
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USA Today
A new front has opened in the continuing turmoil between traditionalist Catholics — who want no one taking the microphone on a Catholic campus who disagrees with Church on any moral question — and those willing to hear a wide range of views and hold …
Washington Post
Newsday
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U.S. News & World Report
By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country The University of Notre Dame's president is defending his invitation to President Barack Obama to deliver this year's commencement address in the face of mounting protests from antiabortion Roman Catholics.
Evening Bulletin
Yorktown Patriot
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Boston Globe
The White House yesterday announced that President Obama will be the commencement speaker at the University of Notre Dame and, right on cue, a controversy has erupted in Catholic circles over whether it is appropriate for the Catholic university to …
Pewsitter
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
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Pewsitter
Detroit/South Bend (March 20, 2009) - As of late Friday night, hundreds of callers had overwhelmed the switchboard at Notre Dame as news began to circulate that Obama had been invited to give the commencement address at Notre Dame on May 17th.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Bizjournals.com
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