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The University of Notre Dame's 2021 commencement is set for Sunday, but President Biden will reportedly be absent from the event.
Breaking with recent tradition, the president will not address the ceremony after 4,300 "members of the Notre Dame community" signed a petition urging Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins not to invite Biden, the second Roman Catholic president, over his stance on abortion.
The petition said that Biden should neither speak at commencement nor be given an honorary degree, and said that signers were "dismayed by the pro-abortion and anti-religious liberty agenda of President Joe Biden."