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Mrchatsworth
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Yep, that’s about right.
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stpurl
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Well, since his area will be all about rebuilding trust in Political Institutions it has the kind of Orwellian logic this dystopian universe keeps giving us: A man who IS a politician working on rebuilding trust in political institutions, whose own lifestyle is antithetical to the institution which has hired him, said institution itself which would benefit highly from having SOMEONE working on how to rebuild trust in RELIGIOUS institutions and even more specifically Catholic ones.
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redbetta
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I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.
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poche
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What will he be teaching?
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KMC
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I dunno…openly gay same-sex union, unapologetically pro-abortion rights, OK with euthanasia…why am I not surprised that Notre Dame hire him?
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gam197
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openly gay married to another man that got married in an episcopal church
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KMC
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Actually, sad that a Catholic institution does not recognize itself as one needing to lead on matters of faith and morals.KMC:
Surprised or delighted for the political fodder it offers?
Same institution gave an honorary degree to a president who is a champion of at least 3 intrinsic evils.
If a parent wants to send their child to a school that teaches and ACTS in an authentic Catholic way, its not Notre Dame.
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gam197
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Something needs to be done at these universities - either reform or strip catholic from their identity.
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Jeanne_S
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As a Catholic your comments are equally as shocking as Norte Dame hiring PB
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EmilyAlexandra
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I didn’t expect to see WorldNetDaily cited as a source on a Catholic website! However, I have also seen this reported in mainstream news sources.
What a fantastic opportunity for Notre Dame students. I found Pete Buttigieg really impressive when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. He’s clearly exceptionally talented. I’m sure we’ll be hearing a lot more about him in the future.
What a fantastic opportunity for Notre Dame students. I found Pete Buttigieg really impressive when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. He’s clearly exceptionally talented. I’m sure we’ll be hearing a lot more about him in the future.
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stpurl
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There are other good Catholic colleges out there. They’re just smaller and less hyped.
But yes, the majority of the big name US Catholic colleges are CINO. In order to show how tolerant and accepting and totally about hearing ‘all issues’ instead of sticking ‘only’ to Catholic thought, they wind up promoting all issues EXCEPT Catholic thought.
You see, if they promoting Catholic teaching, as Catholics, they would be committing the cardinal sin of “not thinking for themselves”.
The only way a religious person can ‘think for himself/herself’ is to REJECT the religious option totally. Otherwise he or she is simply ‘blindly following.
Non religious people though cannot ‘think for themselves’ and accept religious doctrine though. For them, ‘thinking for themselves’ involves accepting the current secular thoughts, all ‘science-based’, all tolerant, open-ended, mutable, indifferent, relative. The only real thinking is the thinking that you can use to argue yourself into a position of superior power, whether that power is intellectual or practical.
Religious thinking ‘used to’ have some degree of power to it. Time was when all the scientists and professors and innovators and thinkers were religious. There are still plenty out there, but they keep the power they have in SPITE of their religious views, not because of them.
But yes, the majority of the big name US Catholic colleges are CINO. In order to show how tolerant and accepting and totally about hearing ‘all issues’ instead of sticking ‘only’ to Catholic thought, they wind up promoting all issues EXCEPT Catholic thought.
You see, if they promoting Catholic teaching, as Catholics, they would be committing the cardinal sin of “not thinking for themselves”.
The only way a religious person can ‘think for himself/herself’ is to REJECT the religious option totally. Otherwise he or she is simply ‘blindly following.
Non religious people though cannot ‘think for themselves’ and accept religious doctrine though. For them, ‘thinking for themselves’ involves accepting the current secular thoughts, all ‘science-based’, all tolerant, open-ended, mutable, indifferent, relative. The only real thinking is the thinking that you can use to argue yourself into a position of superior power, whether that power is intellectual or practical.
Religious thinking ‘used to’ have some degree of power to it. Time was when all the scientists and professors and innovators and thinkers were religious. There are still plenty out there, but they keep the power they have in SPITE of their religious views, not because of them.
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dscath
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pretty offensive and uncharitable claiming Steubenville is “the on.y [sic] authentic Catholic College”, and the others are CINO.Heartbreaking to thing that the on.y authentic Catholic College is Steubenville.The others CINO
I think an apology is in order.
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Jeanne_S
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I’m am merely stating the obvious, when these colleges,ND etall invite somebody on staff ,who is living a life antithetical to church teaching. Nothing to apologize for,I speak the truth.
PB may be a very nice man and a good person,that doesn’t negate that he would be creating scandal in the Curch’s eyes by being an insructor at a “ Catholic Institution of learning”
PB may be a very nice man and a good person,that doesn’t negate that he would be creating scandal in the Curch’s eyes by being an insructor at a “ Catholic Institution of learning”
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KMC
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It was Notre Dame’s Fr. Hesburgh that led the charge to decouple Catholic Universities from oversight by the Church via the Land O Lakes Conference. Franciscan University, on the other hand, has all of their theologians take a pledge to teach in communion with the Catholic Church.
Franciscan walks the walk.
Franciscan walks the walk.
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Jeanne_S
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Thank you! It’s sad that there are some such as ND that choose not to stay faithful to their name sake,Our Blessed Mother ,who was obedient and full of faith
Hail Mary,full of grace…pray for us
Hail Mary,full of grace…pray for us
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dscath
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Just to state my opinion and the obvious, which I have been assured are completely safe posts, ND is A fine institution and Pete is a fine addition to their faculty!
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stpurl
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I am sorry if people took offense. I’m a graduate of a Catholic university myself, one that has had its ups and downs and struggles. A university that might have the V monologues a couple years running could get some new admins and turn right around, so again these things are not set in stone. But as per ye old Land of Lakes (it wasn’t the butter kind), with the vast majority of colleges in the US choosing not to take an oath of fidelity (and we can argue over whether the intentions were good or not later, its the results we’re dealing with today), and being more or less trying to appeal to the world by being more worldly, it is not surprising that so many colleges as a whole in each college, have beeen struggling in the last 50 years to maintain a Catholic identify and not simply a Catholic ‘brand’.
There are plenty of individual students, departments, faculty members and alum at Notre Dame who do take their faith seriously and observe Catholic teaching. They’ll tell you that they had a particular professor, or there was a group of ‘influential students’ or whatever in this or that year who did not seem to be faithful, but that does not mean the whole institute has become the AntiChrist.
However, regarding what a Catholic institution should be by definition, and regardless of how many within it do practice the faith as it should be (or don’t), an institution is ‘in name only’ if its institutional actions do not embody from the heart authentic Catholic doctrine as the ‘reason’ for its existence.
Despite some faithful members, smells and bells, a ‘history’, and other trappings meant to present the college as a little slice of Rome with a line of apostles carrying dogmatic texts and surrounded by crowds of saints, if the institution’s actual actions—the people who are recognized and rewarded by them, the studies, works, authors, groups on campus that are promoted and extolled by them, the press releases and the applause of the secular masses that are given to them, are based not on them teaching and practicing the Faith, but on them saying “Despite our Catholicity which condemns this action, this writing, this claim, WE celebrate, extol, and commend it”. . .then the institution is truly only claiming a NAME.
There are plenty of individual students, departments, faculty members and alum at Notre Dame who do take their faith seriously and observe Catholic teaching. They’ll tell you that they had a particular professor, or there was a group of ‘influential students’ or whatever in this or that year who did not seem to be faithful, but that does not mean the whole institute has become the AntiChrist.
However, regarding what a Catholic institution should be by definition, and regardless of how many within it do practice the faith as it should be (or don’t), an institution is ‘in name only’ if its institutional actions do not embody from the heart authentic Catholic doctrine as the ‘reason’ for its existence.
Despite some faithful members, smells and bells, a ‘history’, and other trappings meant to present the college as a little slice of Rome with a line of apostles carrying dogmatic texts and surrounded by crowds of saints, if the institution’s actual actions—the people who are recognized and rewarded by them, the studies, works, authors, groups on campus that are promoted and extolled by them, the press releases and the applause of the secular masses that are given to them, are based not on them teaching and practicing the Faith, but on them saying “Despite our Catholicity which condemns this action, this writing, this claim, WE celebrate, extol, and commend it”. . .then the institution is truly only claiming a NAME.
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F_Marturana
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I read in another source he’ll be a researcher and will be teaching an undergraduate seminar.
He won’t be teaching theology.
He won’t be teaching theology.
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