lawyers save Notre Dame

4-14-09—“...canon lawyers ... advised us that, by definition, only Catholics who implicitly recognize the authority of Church teaching can act in “’defiance’ of it,” [wrote Notre Dame Pres. Rev. Jenkins in regard to ND’s invitation to Obama].... “Moreover, fellow university presidents have told me that their bishops have told them that in fact it is only Catholic politicians who are referred to in [“Catholics in Political Life,” a statement passed in 2004 by US bishops. SBT A1