Word: dame
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...rate things are going, Pope Benedict XVI may find his next trip to the U.S. dogged by airplanes overhead trailing banners with images of aborted fetuses. O.K., that's a bit of hyperbole. But while several prominent conservative Catholics in this country are apoplectic over the University of Notre Dame's invitation of the pro-choice Barack Obama to give the school's commencement address on May 17, the Vatican has stayed completely silent on the matter...
...Three-quarters of Catholics either approve of or offer no opinion on Notre Dame's decision to invite Obama, and the same percentage of U.S. bishops have opted to stay out of the fight. However, for a small but vocal group of conservative Catholics, the episode has become an opportunity to draw lines between those who are genuinely Catholic and those whom they accuse of being Catholic in name only - even the head of the country's premier Catholic university...
Swine flu is going to college. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that a Notre Dame student tested positive for swine flu - school officials in Indiana said the undergraduate had not been to Mexico recently - and the University of Delaware has started screening students in a special clinic after four cases of influenza that meet probable definitions for swine flu popped on campus...
...time there’s a politician, there are going to be positions that are contrary to church teaching,” said Notre Dame spokesman Dennis K. Brown, who noted that former president George W. Bush’s support of the death penalty also engendered criticism before his 2001 appearance at the school...
Tona M. Boyd, a third-year Harvard Law School student, said she was disconcerted by the backlash from the Catholic community against Obama’s invitation to speak at Notre Dame, even while acknowledging Glendon’s predicament...