Apostolic Signatura Prefect, Archbishop Raymond Burke has described the University of Notre Dame's conferral of an honorary doctorate on President Barack Obama as "a scandal". "The proposed granting of an honorary doctorate at Notre Dame University to our president, who is so aggressively advancing an anti-life and anti-family agenda, is rightly the source of the greatest scandal," Archbishop Burke said.
Archbishop Burke, the former archbishop of St Louis, was addressing a national prayer breakfast in Washington, D.C., Fox News reports.
"With unparalleled arrogance, our nation is choosing to renounce its foundation on the faithful," Archbishop Burke said.
He pointed to several Obama administration decisions that he said have damaged "the fundamental society that is the family".
He blamed loose morals for legislation that would allow same-sex marriages and repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which states have implemented to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
"At the root of the confusion and error about marriage is the contraceptive mentality which would have us believe that the inherently procreative nature of the conjugal union can in practice be mechanically or chemically eliminated while the marital act remains unitive. It simply cannot be sold," Burke said.
Burke noted Catholic support for Obama, saying a majority of Catholics freely chose leadership that is now implementing decisions that conflict with the tenets of their faith.
"The path of violation of the most fundamental human rights and of the integrity of marriage and the family which our nation is traveling is not accidental," he said. "As Catholics, we cannot fail to notice with the greatest sadness the number of our fellow Catholics who cooperate fully to the advancement of a national agenda which is anti-life and anti-family."
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