Thursday, May 21, 2009

Group claims that President Obama visit is costing Notre Dame Big $$$!

Like more than 8.1 million $$$ in potential alumni contributions.

Website ReplaceJenkins.com brings the good news!


It's "received over 900 pledges from alumni and donors promising to withhold future donations."




Adapted from this source: Robert Moynihan's article --"The Bravery of Glendon" -- in Inside The Vatican magazine for May 2009.

Warning: This info is surely at least one month old. Those well to do financiers of the so - called American Catholic Millionaire Left have all the resources necessary to pump another 1o to 20 million dollars into Notre Dame anytime they are so inclined. :)

"[A] group protesting the Obama invitation announced that the university has also lost millions in donations because of the scandal.

"Organizers of ReplaceJenkins.com, an online effort urging alumni and donors to the University of Notre Dame to withhold donations, announced Monday [??!!] that they have personally confirmed over $8.1 million in withheld donations.

"The name of the website -- ReplaceJekins.com -- is a reference to the main demand of the group: that Notre Dame president Fr. John Jenkins, who has firmly stood by the university's decision to honor Obama, be replaced with someone who will uphold the Catholic identity of the university.

"The website has received over 900 pledges from alumni and donors promising to withhold future donations.

"Several of the largest gifts include estate bequests to the university that have been removed from donor's wills.

"[S]pokesperson David DiFranco (Class of '95) said: We knew many donors and alums were unhappy with the decision to honor a pro - abortion president, but we never expected this large of a response. We can hardly keep up, and this is only thd beginning. We can hardly imagine what fund raisers at the university are experiencing, but understandably not reporting.

"DiFranco said the current figure of $8.2 million does not include a number of other large pledges that they are in the process of confirming.

"[H]e said, We are speaking directly with donors, and in several cases we have spoken with estate attorneys to confirm that Notre Dame has been stripped from a donor's will...."

Good story!

We'll just have to wait and see how it goes, huh? :)

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