It is strange that the school would give an ex-Catholic an honorary degree. Maybe all the big white Catholic donors who voted for Trump and Pence strongly "urged" the committee that he receive the honor. So as they say, hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery or, in this case, Notre Dame's livery. (But Samuel Johnson puts it best, at least regarding Fr. Jenkins: "The hypocrite shows the excellence of virtue by the necessity he thinks himself under of seeming to be virtuous." Shame on Notre Dame's president!)