(CNN) -- The Catholic bishop of South Bend, Indiana, will not attend graduation ceremonies at the University of Notre Dame because he disagrees with the stem-cell research and abortion views of the commencement speaker -- President Obama.
The University of Notre Dame says its invitation doesn't mean the university agrees with all of Obama's positions.
Bishop John D'Arcy, whose diocese includes Fort Wayne, Indiana, as well as the university town, said Tuesday in a written statement that "after much prayer" he has decided not to attend the ceremony.
"President Obama has recently reaffirmed, and has now placed in public policy, his long-stated unwillingness to hold human life as sacred," D'Arcy said. "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."
As a Catholic I applaud Bishop D'Arcy. It's about time Catholics put their beliefs first and publicly express their disdain for No-bama's support for the murder of babies.
Stopped for lunch today and picked up a copy of today's Chicago Sun-Times in the restaurant to read while munching on my turkey reuben sandwich. Saw a story about the rise in abortions in Illinois. It's sickening. Here's a quote from an online story: "In Illinois, Planned Parenthood said it performed a record number of abortions in January, many of them motivated by economic worries, said CEO Steve Trombley, who declined to give exact numbers." Ya, they don't want to give numbers because when you do that you show how many babies are murdered every year. Those babies become real then, and they don't want them to become real--remember, these people say they're just "tissue."
Ask any mother if their baby was "tissue."
