Article: Despite criticism, Notre Dame firm on Obama.(IN THE BEGINNING)(Barack Obama as commencement speaker for University of Notre Dame )

University of Notre Dame officials were standing firm on their choice of President Obama as commencement speaker at the institution's May 17 graduation, in spite of a large number of Catholics calling on them to rescind the invitation.

Critics--including Bishop John M. D'Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., the diocese where Notre Dame is located--object to the president's support of legal abortion and embryonic stem-cell research and say he is an inappropriate choice to be the commencement speaker at a Catholic university.

The Cardinal Newman Society--a Virginia-based Catholic college watchdog group--announced March 23 it had collected more than 54,000 ...

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