Apr 15 2009
Headline: Constructive Dialogue’ on Obama Invite No Longer Possible, ND President Tells Students
University of Notre Dame President Fr. John I. Jenkins, CSC, has denied a student coalition’s request for wider dialogue concerning the school’s invitation to President Barack Obama, saying “conditions for constructive dialogue simply do not exist.” Fr. Jenkins had initially offered to participate in a closed-door meeting with 25 members of the Notre Dame Response Student Coalition (ND Response), formed in reaction to Notre Dame’s invitation to the president to deliver the commencement address and to receive an honorary law degree. (Read the rest)
I agree. Constructive dialogue fell apart when Father Jenkins issued his idiotic justification for the invite, and then compounded it with an appeal to anonymous canon lawyers.
