Notre Dame campus newspaper refuses to publish Charlie Rice article which defends Chruch teaching on homosexuality

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posted by Irish Eddie O’hara
My hope is that the new bishop there, Bishop Rhoades, will go to the university and have a nice talk with the officials there. You know the kind of talk, the one about “you have a choice, you will either act like a Catholic or you WILL RETIRE!!!”

The old ways are sometimes the best.

Could it also be that Dr. Rice has written a book called “What Happened to Notre Dame”?
even though he points out that the purpose is not to point a finger at Notre Dame but more as a way to look at Catholic universities.

I have not yet read the book but here is the beginning of the Postscript.

Notre Dame rejected obedience to the Magisterium as the authoritative teacher in the Catholic tradition, of faith and morals. Without such an authoritative interpreter of the moral law, Notre Dame, as an institution invited the resolution of moral issues by a “dictatorship of relativism” in which the community consensus became authoritative. The University, fulfilling a vacuum, eventually assumed for itself, in some respects, the role of substitute magisterium. In the Catholic tradition, the Magisterium teaches by the authority of Christ who is God and who teaches through the Church, which is the body of Christ. When Notre Dame rejected the authority of the Magisterium while still proclaiming to be a “Catholic university,” it reduced itself to incoherence.

One lesson of the Notre Dame experience is that everyone needs an authoritative interpreter of the moral law, a source to which, or to whom, he (or she) looks for authoritative answers to moral questions.

 

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“Charles Rice, a professor of the jurisprudence of Saint Thomas Aquinas for the last thirty years at Notre Dame Law School”

(father to ten children and grandfather to thirty-nine grandchildren)