May pro-lifers are outraged at the invitation granted to President Barack Obama to speak at Notre Dame. Their has been a great focus on this event and it is troubling considering President Obama’s radical record on advocating abortion.

The speech that should be focused on is that of President Reagan in 1981. There were protests. The left really didn’t like him. It was his first appearence outside Washington D.C. after the attempt on his life.

Here is part of what he said:

William Faulkner, at a Nobel Prize ceremony some time back, said man “would not only [merely] endure: he will prevail” against the modern world because he will return to “the old verities and truths of the heart.” And then Faulkner said of man, “He is immortal because he alone among creatures . . . has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.”

One can’t say those words — compassion, sacrifice, and endurance — without thinking of the irony that one who so exemplifies them, Pope John Paul II, a man of peace and goodness, an inspiration to the world, would be struck by a bullet from a man towards whom he could only feel compassion and love. It was Pope John Paul II who warned in last year’s encyclical on mercy and justice against certain economic theories that use the rhetoric of class struggle to justify injustice. He said, “In the name of an alleged justice the neighbor is sometimes destroyed, killed, deprived of liberty or stripped of fundamental human rights.”

This is great stuff.  President Obama may have flowery words said with a sugary accent. But, President Reagan explained America’s reason for being and part of that is protecting innocent human life.

Everyone should read or see Reagan’s speech to Notre Dame. it is the one that matters.