"There are plenty of Christians out there telling the world how great everything is but far too few dissenting voices that stand up to the power structure and publicly say “open your ears and hear!â€

Isn't this what the Catholics resisting Obama's commencement speech are doing? For many of us, abortion is a grave human rights issue. And Obama did more than run on a pro-choice platform. In his first 100 days in office, he has overturned every possible legislation protecting the lives of the unborn that he could. He is moving dangerously close to removing conscience clauses that protect Catholic doctors, nurses and pharmacists from administering procedures they find morally reprehensible. Doing so would require the closing of one of the largest providers of free health care in the world: Catholic Hospitals. 

Inviting Obama to speak at ND is a way of putting pretty face on a deeply resonating conflict of interest.