Notre Dame awaits Obama's graduation speech.
President Barack Obama and a bitter debate over morality will collide under the University of Notre Dame's iconic Golden Dome when he arrives here this afternoon for a highly anticipated commencement address.The national furor over whether such a prominent supporter of abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research should be honored at one of America's premier Catholic universities will come to a head with protests, prayer and boycotts.
Obama, meanwhile, will bring his well-established rhetorical ability and a history of reaching out to people of faith. Those techniques have in the past helped him confront equally contentious situations, such as when a controversial former pastor threatened his candidacy in 2008.
