50,000 Letters Sent to Notre Dame Alumni Re: Obama; In Letter, Bishop GracidaUrged Former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Mary Ann Glendon to Refuse AwardSOUTH BEND, Ind., April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 50,000 hand addressedletters were sent to Notre Dame Alumni, and 100,000 post cards for Vatican andNotre Dame officials, urging ND Grads to fight against Obama's scheduledspeech.Randall Terry and local Notre Dame Alumni sent 50,000 letters to Alumni from'88 and back. (Older Alumni were selected because they tend to be moreconservative.)The post cards are designed to be sent to Vatican and Notre Dame officials.Link to the Letter, and PDF printer ready version of postcards below. Here are some experts, beginning with an endorsement from Bishop Rene HenryGracida, with his exhortation to Former U.S.

ambassador to the Vatican MaryAnn Glendon:"Randall, I have visited your website and have signed the petition. I congratulate youon starting this initiative and I pray that it is successful. I urge you toexpand this initiative to also persuade Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon to refuseto accept Notre Dame's Laetare Award. Blessings!"+Rene Henry Gracida, Bishop Emeritus of Corpus ChristiFollowing are excerpts from Randall Terry:I know that some cautious souls fear "strident" rhetoric, or "controversial"images. I ask those friends to remember the Gospels: remember Jesus turningover tables; chasing people with a whip; calling Pharisees the children ofhell, a brood of vipers, white washed tombs, and sons of the devil.In considering an appropriate response to killing babies and hurting mothers,remember Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Nathan, and other prophets -- who rebukedkings and priests -- who fearlessly condemned child-sacrifice in their day.They used rhetoric and images equal to the crimes they condemned.

Shouldn't wefollow their example? Are we above them? Or do we and our leaders have anunholy attachment to our "reputation" and "dignity" that shackles and muzzlesus?In the fight to end slavery, Frederick Douglass said, "It is not light that isneeded, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder We need the storm,the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must bequickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of thenation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and itscrimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced......But I am not naive... there are many faculty and alumni who have boughtinto the confusion of the death movement. They place unity and peace abovejustice -- and therefore do not like our actions as we cry out for the babiesand moms. Still others support the President speaking at Notre Dame!Randall Terry states: "We honor former U.S.