The Monday Project - Sending Pro-Life Cards To Notre Dame

Remember the red postcard campaign, where countless cards were sent to the White House following Obama's inauguration in memory of all the innocent lives lost to abortion? Well, here is a similar concept: The Monday Project. For every donation made to the Women's Help Center, they will send a pink or blue postcard to Notre Dame President Fr. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., to honor the culture of life.

With all the evil surrounding the sanctioned events of May 17, it is good to see so many pro-life individuals and organizations working to make sure that there is some good to come out of this. And there is much unintended good that has happened besides. It will be a long time before Notre Dame is taken seriously as America's premier Catholic university, and it is a well-deserved consequence. It will be a long time before the university can deceive faithful Catholics into scandal on the scale that it has just done with its recent commencement fiasco. The less potential for scandal that exists in a largely secularized university, the better.

To restore its reputation, Notre Dame will have to work seriously towards restoring its Catholic identity in fact as well as in name. This means that token gestures will not suffice. It is an important first step, for instance, that Fr. Jenkins be removed from his post as university President, but replacing him with someone of the caliber of Fr. Jenkins' two unworthy predecessors, Fr. Theodore Hesburgh (the architect of the Land 'O Lakes fiasco) and Fr. Edward Malloy (who did absolutely nothing to curb the growing wave of apostasy at the university), will accomplish absolutely nothing. The man who replaces Fr. Jenkins (preferably sooner than later) will be the most heavily scrutinized university President appointment in American history. The reaction of the media will be telling. If the new selection is as bad, worse, or even just nominally better than Fr. Jenkins in terms of orthodoxy, then the media is sure to gush over his selection just like they do over Obama's every word and action. But if the new selection even hints at being someone of proven orthodox Catholic conviction and takes a no-nonsense approach to restoring the university's identity, then that person will become the media's new whipping boy. Of course, merely hinting at such convictions does not warrant a free pass. Fr. Jenkins hinted at such convictions when he took over for Fr. Malloy, and we are all now painfully aware of the disaster that has ensued.

The new President's every action will be dissected. Such is the cross that the new person shall bear. We therefore need someone of strong moral fiber and courage who can withstand both the scrutiny and the pressure to conform to the secular status quo. But I know this much: devout American Catholics grow tired of bishops, pastors, and administrators of Catholic institutions who take a wait and see attitude when they inherit a theological and spiritual mess, because such an approach rarely leads to action. If the next President thus begs off on moving the university in a more orthodox direction while he "gets a feel for the situation," then the University of Notre Dame will have that much longer to wait before its severely damaged reputation can begin to be repaired. I pray once again that those who love both the university and the Catholic Church (for what the Church truly is, and not for what the adjective "Catholic" can let them accomplish) will soon see a reconciliation between those things which they love.

In the meantime, the university needs to be constantly reminded of the Church's mission, a very important part of which is combating the culture of death that is now being led by one Barack Hussein Obama. The Monday Project is one of the ways to go about doing this. Please give them a look, and if possible make a contribution. God bless!


In Jesus and Mary,
Gerald