{"id":4032,"date":"2009-05-15T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T09:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blog\/arkiv\/1860"},"modified":"2009-05-15T11:07:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T09:07:51","slug":"17-mai-blir-en-vanskelig-dag-for-katolikker-i-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2009\/05\/17-mai-blir-en-vanskelig-dag-for-katolikker-i-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"17. mai blir en vanskelig dag for katolikker i USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Bottum er redakt\u00f8r av tidsskriftet First Things<\/a>, og skriver en sv\u00e6rt iinteressant (og lang) artikkel om at president Obama skal motta en \u00e6resdoktograd i jus fra det kjente katolske universitetet Notre Dame. USA’s president pleier hvert \u00e5r \u00e5 bes\u00f8ke og dele ut vitnem\u00e5l ved tre universiteter – et offentlig, et frittst\u00e5ende og et milit\u00e6rakademi – og i \u00e5r var det ene universitetet katolsk.<\/p>\n

S\u00e5 langt s\u00e5 alt bra ut, med s\u00e5 valgte Notre Dame \u00e5 ogs\u00e5 gi presidenten en \u00e6resdoktograd (noe de andre universitetene ikke gjorde), stikk i strid med de katolske biskopenes regler for slike ting. For siden president Obama er (ekstremt) sterkt for fri abort, bryter han s\u00e5 fundamentalt med katolsk l\u00e6re, at han ikke m\u00e5 settes fram som et eksempel til etterf\u00f8lgelse p\u00e5 en slik m\u00e5te. Over 50 av USA’s katolske biskoper har tydelig sagt fra at dette er upassende, men universitetets president har ikke b\u00f8yd seg. Slik har denne saken g\u00e5tt fra vondt til stadig mye verre:<\/p>\n

We all knew this fight was coming. The Catholic Church and the Catholic colleges have been heading toward a crash since at least 1990, when John Paul II issued Ex Corde Ecclesiae, his apostolic constitution for Catholic institutions of higher education. And now, at last, the battle is public\u2014brought to fever pitch by Notre Dame\u2019s bestowing of an honorary law degree on a prominent supporter of legalized abortion.<\/p>\n

As it happens, that supporter of abortion is also the president of the United States, which is unfortunate in a number of ways\u2014beginning with the fact that the office of the president, regardless of who holds it, deserves respect and honor from American citizens of every political persuasion. For that matter, a majority of at least self-described Catholics (54 percent, according to widely reported exit polls) voted for Barack Obama in November, and, as our first black president, he serves a symbolic function in American political life that Catholics should applaud.<\/p>\n

But even when we know a fight is coming, we don\u2019t always get to choose the field on which it will be fought. A better place to make all this public might have been the Sacred Heart University dinner at the end of April, which the bishop of Bridgeport, William Lori, refused to attend because it was in honor of the pro-abortion Kerry Kennedy. Or the Xavier University commencement at the beginning of May, which the archbishop of New Orleans, Alfred Hughes, refused to attend because it was in honor of the pro-abortion political strategist Donna Brazile.<\/p>\n

Of course, neither Kerry Kennedy nor Donna Brazile are as prominent as Barack Obama, and, in truth, neither Sacred Heart nor Xavier are as firmly identified with Catholicism in the American mind as the University of Notre Dame. And so this is where the long-expected fight at last broke out: in a public controversy over the honoring of the president of the United States with a Catholic law degree.<\/p>\n

The story began in December, when the president of Notre Dame, Fr. John I. Jenkins, asked Mary Ann Glendon, the Harvard law professor and former ambassador to the Vatican, to accept this year\u2019s Laetare Medal\u2014the university\u2019s annual honor for service to the Church and society. Then, on March 20, the White House announced that President Obama would be the commencement speaker this spring at Arizona State University, the University of Notre Dame, and the United States Naval Academy: the usual presidential grouping of a state university, an independent college, and a military academy. That same day, however, Notre Dame announced that it would also be honoring the president with a law degree: the only one of three schools to add an honorary doctorate to the commencement ceremonies. <\/font> <\/i><\/p>\n

Les resten av artikkelen her<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joseph Bottum er redakt\u00f8r av tidsskriftet First Things, og skriver en sv\u00e6rt iinteressant (og lang) artikkel om at president Obama skal motta en \u00e6resdoktograd i jus fra det kjente katolske universitetet Notre Dame. USA’s president pleier hvert \u00e5r \u00e5 bes\u00f8ke og dele ut vitnem\u00e5l ved tre universiteter – et offentlig, et frittst\u00e5ende og et milit\u00e6rakademi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generelt","category-katolsk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}