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Bishop John D'Arcy
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Today, Notre Dame university said that despite criticism it has received, President Obama will speak at commencement this May. The following statement was issued by Bishop John M. D'Arcy and it appeared March 24th on the Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana website.
On Friday, March 21, Father John Jenkins, CSC, phoned to inform me that President Obama had accepted his invitation to speak to the graduating class at Notre Dame and receive an honorary degree. We spoke shortly before the announcement was made public at the White House press briefing. It was the first time that I had been informed that Notre Dame had issued this invitation.
President Obama has recently reaffirmed, and has now placed in public policy, his long-stated unwillingness to hold human life as sacred. While claiming to separate politics from science, he has in fact separated science from ethics and has brought the American government, for the first time in history, into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life.
