I’m writing this letter to the Notre Dame community to express my complete disillusionment with what I thought was my beloved alma mater. When I was at Notre Dame (under the leadership of Fr. Theodore Hesburgh), we stood for the rights of all people — especially the downtrodden, the oppressed and the poor. Our community was one that I was very proud of.

Now, I’m reading in my local paper that Notre Dame has asked Mike Pence, and was considering Donald Trump, for Commencement speaker. How can the great Notre Dame community endorse these people who have consistently lied and exhibited varying degrees of disregard for the inclusiveness and love that was preached by Jesus and has been preached by our current beloved Pope?

The Catholic endorsement of the anti-LGBT rhetoric is undermining the message of love and inclusiveness that should be sent around the world. The Catholic endorsement of the policies of President Trump and his administration is terrifying to me. Has the Catholic position of anti-abortion allowed everyone to ignore all of the other positions of this new administration and blinded everyone to its evils? How can an educated population such as the Notre Dame community not see the deception and greed in this current administration? They …show more content…
Are they being replaced by greedy nationalists and white supremacists? Why aren’t more people — especially Catholics — standing up for all of our less fortunate members of the human race, such as immigrants, blacks and Hispanics? Since when did it become the “right” of an American to keep and build as much wealth as possible, especially to the detriment of those who are less fortunate than them? We don’t have a right to this land or this land’s wealth — we took it from the Native Americans. We built wealth using the African American slaves and we “gave” it to the white soldiers returning from war (read about the housing policies of our Administration in the