Op-Ed: Notre Dame Rightly Honoring Obama President Obama will deliver the 2009 commencement address at the University of Notre Dame. Some Catholics oppose his appearance because of some of Obama's policies. But in an op-ed, alumnus Kenneth L. Woodward writes that Obama's appearance is a coup for Notre Dame.

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President Obama will deliver the 2009 commencement address at the University of Notre Dame. Some Catholics oppose his appearance because of some of Obama's policies.

But in an op-ed for the Miami Herald, alumnus and Newsweek editor Kenneth L. Woodward writes that Obama's appearance is a coup for Notre Dame.

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