President Barack Obama

Archbishop Raymond Burke

Former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke was in Washington Friday morning to give the keynote speech at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. And he didn’t hold back.

Speaking of the University of Notre Dame’s decision to honor President Barack Obama - an abortion rights supporter - at its commencement later this month, Burke said Catholic universities should not give a platform, let alone honor, “those who teach and act publicly against the moral law,” according to the Associated Press.

“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,” Burke said.

The Washington Post’s God in Government blog reported that Burke “did not disappoint” the “1,300 mostly conservative Catholics at the event” who “interrupted his 45-minute address more than a dozen times with applause.” Post religion reporter and blogger Jacqueline L.…

President Barack Obama (Getty)

The Rev. John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame (Notre Dame)

Dozens of St. Louis Catholics will travel in a convoy of buses, cars and vans to South Bend, Ind. on May 16 to take part in campus protests against University of Notre Dame officials’ decision to award President Barack Obama - who supports abortion rights - with an honorary degree.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that since the first century…

…the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law.

For some American Catholics, the idea that the nation’s premier Catholic institution of higher learning will honor a politician who has supported legislation “contrary to the moral law,” is infuriating.

“The minute I heard about this, I knew I had to…