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Dear Friend:

Thank you for signing the petition at NotreDameScandal.com, opposing the University of Notre Dame's planned honor to President Barack Obama, despite his dangerous record on life issues.

 

More than 264,000 Catholics have signed the petition at NotreDameScandal.com, including many priests, Notre Dame families, college presidents and even some bishops!

 

But The Cardinal Newman Society needs your help again… to recruit MORE signers!

 

Notre Dame still has not yielded, and we need more Catholics to stand up and be counted.

 

Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has urged faithful Catholics to "do what you are supposed to be doing: to call, to email, to write letters, to express what's in your heart about this"!

 

Bishop Joseph Martino of Scranton, a champion of Catholic identity, has specifically urged Catholics to sign the petition at NotreDameScandal.com!

 

At this stage, and in addition to prayer, the single most important thing that the lay faithful can do THIS WEEK is to drive the number of signers on the petition even higher!

 

The petition has had a dramatic impact.  Nearly every media article and broadcast about the Notre Dame scandal – at MSNBC, FOX News, EWTN, TIME magazine, U.S. News & World Report, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and more – has pointed to the LARGE NUMBER of protesters at NotreDameScandal.com!

 

And how often to we see nearly three dozen bishops so publicly decry scandal in the Church?

 

These bishops – including leading Cardinals and Archbishops – have declared Notre Dame's planned honor a "travesty," "unconscionable," "indefensible," "a public act of disobedience to the Bishops," and "seemingly without regard for the mission of the Catholic Church in the United States"!

 

Please, take a few seconds to forward this e-mail to at least five friends and family, and encourage them to sign the petition at NotreDameScandal.com  TODAY!

 

You see, at 7:00 a.m. Monday morning we are going to print the first wave of petitions, and what a statement it would make if Father Jenkins and the bishops (including some of our friends in Rome) saw that we had 300,000, 350,000 or even 400,000 Catholics demanding that Notre Dame live up to its Holy mission!

 

As much as pro-abortion Catholics want to make this a partisan issue, you and I know that at its core this scandal is about Catholics and Catholic institutions standing up as a witness for life and for our Holy, catholic and apostolic faith at this moment in history when it is under constant attack. 

 

Please, it is critical that we get as many people as possible to sign the petition this week!

 

And you can do something else to help out: go to NotreDameScandal.com, click on the "Donate Now" button on the left, and send The Cardinal Newman Society even a small (tax-deductible) contribution.  Or simply click here.

 

My entire staff and I have devoted nearly every hour to this protest since the moment the scandal broke, and to be honest with you this effort is breaking our budget. If necessary, The Cardinal Newman Society will go broke to help stop the Notre Dame scandal… but I hope that is not God's plan for us.

 

Would you please consider a gift of $5, $15, $30, or even $100 or more to help us in our 16-year fight combating scandals on Catholic campuses and working to renew Catholic higher education? Thank you!

 

May God bless you for your faithful witness to the truth, and may He inspire Father Jenkins to withdraw this scandalous honor!  Please keep watching NotreDameScandal.com for the latest breaking information on this story.

 

Yours in Christ,

Patrick J. Reilly

President, The Cardinal Newman Society

 

P.S. First priority: PLEASE HURRY, help us recruit more signers at NotreDameScandal.com TODAY!  And if you can help us with even a small donation, we would gratefully welcome you as a member of The Cardinal Newman Society and a partner in one of the most exciting projects in the Catholic Church today – the renewal of faithful Catholic education!