An entry on last evening's FOX ticker indicated Notre Dame is giving Obama an honorary law degree on sole ground it's impressed with his "inspirational" speaking ability...results apparently unnecessary to mere ability to sway popularity to him personally. Doesn't square with honorary degrees ANY academic or religious organization awarded in past to anyone, in that some action(s) relative to such degree's purpose...in this case, interpretation of all law...is exemplary to the ideals of the issuing institution.

In this case, the college is of USA Roman Catholic registry. Such USA branch of faith often operates, especially re social justice issues, in defiance of the Vatican's Catechism of the Catholic Church adopted 1994; under all "don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing" words, the USA Catholic Church operates almost an exclusive Pentecostal enterprise, geared to diverting all funds/resources from USA nationals/immigrants to "the poor" only they can see, for as funds deplete from the people and nation, they themselves are deemed never in need. In areas such as the Cook/Lake County Illinois super archdiocese of Chicago ( http://www.archdiocese-chgo.org/thearchdiocese/departments.shtm ), inter alia, the Catholic Church performs many outsourced services formerly provided by State welfare and immigrant aid agencies; given the Faith Office power to discriminate, the Catholic Church finds immigrants not here by bank/employer permission, those abroad at mercy of foreign land-grabbers, habitual drug addicts/alcoholics,  dispossessed long-term welfare recipients, and repeat offenders the only of "God's creations" worthy of faith-based community help...without regard to race(s). As job losers/mortgage foreclosure types of every stripe turn to the biggest local provider and organs thereof (St. Vincent DePaul, LOVE, Inc., e.g.) for help, they are told things such as "maybe God wants you to be homeless" and at best get a list of any pantries...even if one could get a job verifiably, if they just had daycare or a tank of gas or a domicile to first check. By contrast, literally anything a chronic case asks is given, even if redundant to other aid. The only known ecumenical effort is to get Jews, Lutherans, et al, who offer  their own but much smaller-scale services, to serve chronic cases exclusively...cases who need not have tether to any religion, Church attendance, or good personality.

Thus, basing the only acceptable USA Christian philosophy uniquely upon Matthew 25:40, such players further invite all stripes of Church-goers to also put as much of their own cash as they can into collection baskets and plates, on promise God will see it gets to who it should and leave bereft only those by such poverty due to waste of money are so identified as "vessels of predestined wrath", doomed by God before birth and worthy of shunning...and don't ask why those other or chronic poor/distressed aren't discerned "doomed by God", even though ANY want is a sign of damnation. Also, good USA Christians per Catholics wouldn't question 'God's Calvinism" at work in Europe, Darfur, Laden's mind re Islam/everyone, or elsewhere globally. And in this locale, try finding many Catholics praying a popish Rosary after Sunday masses; try finding ANY Papal pictures (even of John Paul II) on any Church property...I know for years each Church location needs its own EIN even if in a faith, but the Vatican seems of lesser import to local catechisms (mentioned in the 1994 Vatican Catechism of John Paul II) in the area...and Cardinal George is a ranking member of the USCCB, neither of which objects to Notre Dame's honoraria, for the record.       

Pro-abortion? Calvinism says only abortion subjects, parents, or both are vessels of wrath, disposable. Perceived as a raw dealer? Only the swindled were sent a false spirit by God due to non-adherence to Matthew 25:40 in their hearts, or to Calvinistic predestination. Pro-LBGT? Let's sidestep Biblical need to be LBGT AND do/worship evil to be doomed (Big Brother of The Village doesn't like anyone else mentioning good/evil, right/wrong, not seeing questions burden others/answers imprison the self), and say Calvinism reveals better predestinations in the most unexpected of places...unless, ala nationals/immigrants, later dire straits for a LBGT reveal imperfect dedication to God's only will Matthew 25:40, or predestination.

It's only natural that a President committed to listening, not preaching, abroad would be getting an inspirational, preacher-like exhortation applause from an institution sharing his theology.

Some will say: Obama? A Calvinist? Come on, he's not perceived religious!". Ahem...he jumped at a chance to receive recognition from a Catholic college, which is not at all concerned about his exhortation contents. And who toothlessly pep talks away the economy, leaving it to States and cities and nations on fixed incomes...speaking of one hand not having to do with another. Yet such States re-open or build new prisons as "losers" are policed to see if illegal drug immigrants/foreign-born charity or other such cases are "recruiting" the immigrants/nationals from whom money/jobs/houses are stripped to be given to the aforesaid. Who won't stop funding actual Ladens and hosts? Does anyone call many American residents "irresponsible", "arrogant", et al? 

Then there's code for administration staff and nominees: "Pregnancy is involuntary servitude", "the Constitution is quaint and should be replaced by international law". Well, other countries have found sometimes that babies are burdens on workers/States, and some ala Laden find "useless predestined apostates". It's not relieving ALL of rights, just those predestination sorts out, and THAT is how John Adams said the Constitution should work; he said "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people"...in his day, Puritan Calvinism was huge and used to justify belittling native Americans and African slavery against the poorly predestined, "proven" by God letting it happen. To which Thomas Jefferson replied: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and that His justice cannot sleep forever".

In sum, the Constitution adopted 1789 allows Obama or anyone else (even Notre Dame) to favor Calvinism in their personal lives, but precludes any President down to petty officials...from Adams' time to infinity if not properly repealed...from institutionalizing predestination or any religious theme, directly or via faith-funding only peculiar strands of faith(s). Nor by emulating Calvinism(s) under guise of treaties or otherwise, in re nations which practice secular or religious analogues to predestination. Nor by through any way(s) representing the ability to simply perceive or reason right, wrong, and error is restricted to the State or licensees thereof subject to State command.