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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Obama to visit Catholic university AFP - Monday, May 18 CHICAGO (AFP) - - US President Barack Obama wades into a political thicket Sunday when he speaks at a prestigious Catholic university, where right-to-life protesters have gathered to oppose his support of abortion rights. ADVERTISEMENT Obama is to deliver the commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, founded in 1842 and one of the leading US Catholic universities. While the president's visit is popular among the students -- the university's student newspaper said 74 percent of letters to its editor from students supported the invitation -- more than 360,000 people have signed a petition asking Notre Dame's president to withdraw the invitation. Activists on Saturday lined the entrance to campus holding signs protesting the Obama visit, and campus police arrested 10 trespassers, local media reported. Several Catholic Church leaders were vocal in their condemnation. "It is clear that Notre Dame didn't understand what it means to be Catholic when they issued this invitation," said Cardinal Francis George, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, who called it an "embarrassment" to "many, many Catholics." Activists with the Cardinal Newman Society, a group that says it is "dedicated to renewing and strengthening Catholic identity" at US Catholic universities, have vowed to hold protests at the university on Sunday. Bishop John D'Arcy, of the diocese where Notre Dame is located, said he will boycott the graduation for the first time in his 24 years as bishop, the Chicago Tribune reported. The controversy comes as Obama prepares to name his first nominee to the Supreme Court, and as the Republican Party struggles to reinvigorate itself in the wake of last fall's crushing electoral defeats. Anti-abortion activists hope the protests will help reawaken the Republican base with the same kind of grassroots movement that brought Republicans back to power after the election of former Democratic president Bill Clinton. "What we're doing is creating the crisis that forces real, constructive, positive change in America that protects human rights because social justice begins in the womb," Troy Newman, a spokesman for Kansas-based Operation Rescue, told AFP. "What he's espoused is a far-left, radical agenda that is out of step with the majority of Americans' political beliefs and social beliefs," he said. Abortion remains a divisive issue in US politics. A recent Pew Research Center poll found a sharp drop in the number of people who believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases to 46 percent of respondents from 54 percent a year ago. Within days of taking office, Obama reversed a ban on providing federal funds to family-planning groups that carry out or facilitate abortions overseas, known as the "global gag rule," implemented during the tenure of pro-life president George W. Bush. Despite the heated rhetoric, the controversy appears to be galvanizing only a small number of voters. Just 28 percent of Catholics surveyed in a recent Pew Center poll thought Notre Dame was wrong to invite Obama, while half said it was the right thing to do. Obama remains extremely popular, with a 63 percent job approval rating at the first 100 days in office, the highest of any US president since Ronald Regan. Obama also managed to carry the Catholic vote in the November 4 election and was the first Democrat since 1964 to win the midwestern state of Indiana, where Notre Dame is located. While Obama may address abortion in his speech, he is not going to "dwell on the things that divide us," political advisor David Axelrod said on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. "Catholics are accustomed to making their own decisions," Notre Dame history professor R. Scott Appleby told the Chicago Tribune. "That's one of the results... of living in a democracy like ours." The controversy was reminiscent of a 1984 commencement address at the university by then-New York state Governor Mario Cuomo, a Roman Catholic politician who openly supports abortion rights. Cuomo said the same speech he delivered at Notre Dame a quarter-century ago could be delivered today with little editing. "That frightens me a little bit," he told The Tribune. "It means we haven't made a whole lot of progress in 25 years." 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