Hope

"I do not suggest that the debate surrounding abortion can or should go away." (Barack Obama, today, Notre Dame)


Is this a shift in position? Is this different from the FOCA-pushing president we saw a few months ago?

All the prayers offered on this day cannot be for nothing.

Let's hope. Maybe it's not just more fancy talking.

I promise I'm trying hard to live in the present (and not in the past), but here's a quote from George W. Bush's 2001 commencement speech, also at ND:

"Dame, as a Catholic university, carries forward a great tradition of social teaching. It calls on all of us, Catholic and non-Catholic, to honor family, to protect life in all its stages, to serve and uplift the poor."

Nice and unambiguous, don't you think?

Anyway, God bless America.