{"id":12670,"date":"2009-05-07T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ej_dionne_words_from_rome_change_the_debate_on_inviting_obama_to_notre_dame\/"},"modified":"2009-05-07T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T14:00:15","slug":"ej_dionne_words_from_rome_change_the_debate_on_inviting_obama_to_notre_dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12670","title":{"rendered":"E.J. Dionne: Words From Rome Change The Debate on Inviting Obama to Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now know that the reaction of right-wing Catholics to Notre Dame&#8217;s invitation to President Obama falls into the category of &#8220;more Catholic than the pope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To the dismay of many conservatives, the Vatican&#8217;s own newspaper, L&#8217;Osservatore Romano, has offered what one antiabortion Catholic blog called &#8220;a surprisingly positive assessment of the new president&#8217;s approach to life issues&#8221; &#8212; so positive, in fact, that a spokesman for the National Right to Life Committee was moved to criticize Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s daily.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican newspaper offered its analysis as Catholic liberals and conservatives are battling fiercely over Notre Dame&#8217;s decision to invite the president as this year&#8217;s commencement speaker and to grant him an honorary degree&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/06\/AR2009050603319_pf.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now know that the reaction of right-wing Catholics to Notre Dame&#8217;s invitation to President Obama falls into the category of &#8220;more Catholic than the pope.&#8221; To the dismay of many conservatives, the Vatican&#8217;s own newspaper, L&#8217;Osservatore Romano, has offered<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12670\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,111,96,616,154,151,636,667,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-education","category-life-ethics","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-president-barack-obama","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}