The University of Notre Dame, the best known Catholic institution of higher learning in the country, is embroiled in questions about its Catholic identity. What surprises me about those questions is that they are only now arising; they are long, long overdue.
For years Notre Dame has blithely ignored the standards that a truly Catholic institution would uphold. Like other large Catholic universities—especially the large Jesuit-run institutions— Notre Dame has appointed faculty members who reject and even attack Church teachings, authorized student groups with aims inimical to the principles of the faith, given honorary degrees and speaking platforms to public figures who espouse anti-Catholic views, and tolerated immoral behavior on campus.
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