Comments on: Open Mouth, Remove All Doubt (post 2)

By: Paul Cortese

Paul Cortese — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:30:31 +0000

Unfortunately, Mr. Brown, you too are following your bishop only where you want to. That’s not your all of your fault – the bishops are poorly leading, if that. Bishops annul marriages even if one cruelly cheats and children have been left as ‘illegitimate’ – they have that power to loose or bind? Do you accept this as your bishop allows? Do you accept that a priest forgives adultery and other sins? Except for Randall?

Did Father Jenkins follow his Bishop?

What percentage of ND catholics followed their bishop regarding Obama and ND? What percentage of catholics use birth control, support abortion? I think the percentages are astounding. Bishops aren’t leading and folks are figuring their own way using the poor tools of the culture they grew up in. Certainly, the bishops lead occassionally, but who listens to a parent occassionally and actually obeys? Which bishop does one listen to – the far left or the far center, since the far right are in schism?

That’s an awful problem. And it wont be corrected in my lifetime, as it’s been my 45 years in the making.

By: Judie Brown

Judie Brown — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:47:03 +0000

We all need to be aware that actions such as Randall Terry’s soil the credibility of the real heros of this pro-life activist movement, Bryan Brown being at the head of the list. Terry should be ashamed.

Judie Brown

By: john

john — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:23:51 +0000

I agree that R.T. overstepped his authority in calling out the bishop for what randy believes is a lack of leadership, but I also know that rather Catholic or protestant the Church as a boby of Christ should have done more to eliminate abortion than it did The Churches silence then and now has allowed this killing of the innocent to become ordinary and God surely is not pleased. I know that the Churches all nelected their duties when they did not become involved in operation rescue or better yet they should have been leading the fight, not following ! .

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:23:37 +0000

write (right) on brother! I hope some mainstreem media picks your piece up!

By: donegal2007

donegal2007 — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:11:02 +0000

An old friend from “back in the day” just sent me this:
Just got this from Notre Dame’s Alumni Association:

Dear David,

It has come to the attention of the Alumni Association that some Notre Dame alumni recently received a letter from Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, regarding the University’s invitation to President Obama to speak at this year’s Commencement.

The Alumni Association wants to assure you that letter was not sent by either the University or the Alumni Association. It was sent without our permission, approval, or prior knowledge. In addition, we did not provide any alumni contact information to the organization that sent the letter.

The Alumni Association’s policy is to never disclose alumni contact information to any third party external to the Notre Dame community. In addition, Irish Online, our password-protected, secure website, provides alumni directory access only to ND alumni…

If you’re not familiar with Randall Terry, he could be crudely described as a pro-life version of Stokely Carmichael. I’m a bit afraid of what I’m going to find in my mailbox.

By: donegal2007

donegal2007 — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:00:50 +0000

Readers,
This note was emailed to me from the Chicago area:

dear Brian~

thanks for sending this…
i was contemplating coming to ND,
but i did feel a tinge of disobedience during that idea,
due to the fact Bishop D’Arcy was my good bishop
as well…i now know after reading your rebuttal,
we stay and pray….i don’t need to be there either!
thank you for enlightening me on the subject as well
as confirmation…

God’s peace and mercy to us all !

By: Jim Howard

Jim Howard — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:28:19 +0000

I absolutely agree with you and I think a letter supporting Bishop D’Arcy should go to the newspapers as well. Randall Terry is very much like the preconverted Peter in that he cuts off
people’s ears and he thinks that is what Jesus wants.

I would say a $10 million reduction in donations to Notre Dame next year should help to get their attention. If Mr. Terry spent 1/10 of the time attempting to reach the donors and suggest they apply pressure to Notre Dame he actually might be effective, instead it appears that he is interested in the “donors” for himself. How sad.

Bishop D’Arcy is a tremendous leader and Sheperd and he has handled this perfectly in my humble opinion.