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Bishop to Notre Dame on Obama: 'We won. You lost.'

When Bishop John D'Arcy of South Bend, Ind., publicly and decisively declared he would boycott Notre Dame's graduation last May because President Obama was the commencement speaker, he touched off the proverbial firestorm -- and one that actually lives up to the cliche since the debate is continuing, fueled again this week by a fresh rejoinder from D'Arcy. At the time of the invitation in March, more than one-quarter of the nation's active Catholic bishops joined D'Arcy in declaring that Notre Dame -- the icon of American Catholic faith and success -- had sold her birthright for a mess of ...

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