Jenkins should resign from Notre Dame

President Obama's commencement speech at Notre Dame was by all accounts brilliant. It was eloquent indeed, exactly what you would expect from a demagogue, no less. All the talk about reconciliation and mutual, harmonious understanding between pro-life and abortionist foes sounded just wonderful.

He certainly talks the talk but unfortunately does not walk the walk.

Dr. Tiller who performs what is euphemistically called late-term abortions, is a large contributor to the election campaign of Kathleen Sebelius, the then-Governor of Kansas. When Obama appointed Kathleen Sebelius, one of the most influential abortion advocates, to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services, all pretenses were gone. Obama's core belief is abortion.

Just as Lady Macbeth, with blood on her hand, lamented that "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand," so Obama cannot wash away with eloquent speeches the fact that he is for abortion and any olive branch to the pro-life group is nothing more than luring them to see it his way.

How this fact could have escaped Fr. Jenkins, the President of Notre Dame, a university that proudly claims that it is a Catholic university, is astounding. How Obama, whose belief is diametrically opposed to not only Catholics but all Christians, could have been invited to deliver the commencement address and also receive an honorary degree from Notre Dame is incomprehensible. Fr. Jenkins should resign as president, because he has lost the moral authority to lead.

Laszlo Stephan

Des Plaines