Notre Dame president defends covering Columbus murals

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I had a hard time actually teasing out what he means when he says “tell the full story”.

Apparently the murals have been covered, and, at a single different location on campus, the murals are reproduced in high resolution photographs which are interspersed with the Native American story.

It seems like a good way to resolve the concerns that any Native American group on campus has brought up.
 
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“The 12 murals, created in the 1880s by Luis Gregori, were intended to encourage immigrants who had come to the U.S. during a period of anti-Catholic sentiment.”

The murals show appreciation for Catholicism.
Anti-Catholicism was rampant in the 1880s, declined after 1928 for several decades, now is rampant again. There is far more prejudice against Catholics in 2019 than against Native Americans, though there still is that prejudice too.

Will Notre Dame have any exhibition regards the “full story” of anti Catholicism, past and present?
 
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I am not liberal and I do not hate Catholicism. It is great he crossed. He has some concerning attitudes that God would not advise. I fully realize the book handed to me in Sociology class is biased. Still, their is some truth to a critique in his actions. We don’t want to be to associated with Columbus.
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By the “standards” of today we should raze the Jefferson Memorial and the Washington Monument, and pretty much the memory of everyone who lived prior to the Civil War, and perhaps even before yesterday. The Catholic Church and her saints will be attacked because perfection is not to be found even in them. Continual capitulation to the perpetually aggrieved has no logical end. Those who have let themselves be carried down this road will find it virtually impossible to find a point to say “This far but no farther.” It will be implausible to expect someone to invoke principles that have already been surrendered.
 
I pray that Catholics in general, and all people of good will, will awake to the progressive agenda before it is too late. There is a war ongoing for not just this nation, but the entire world. The progressivists and their minions are bent on creating a grand new Humanist utopia and everything in their path must be eradicated. History, culture, Faith, all of it! Reminds me of Lenin after the revolution. This has been ongoing for decades, and one must give credit where it is due, they have been quite thorough at their takeover of schools, media and government. It is a war, both spiritual and physical. Remember Our Lady’s warnings of the spread of the errors of Russia!
Stand fast good people.
 
Um, is there an ongoing effort to have Christopher Columbus canonized?
 
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Um, is there an ongoing effort to have Christopher Columbus canonized?
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Not to be canonized, but to stop the Orwellian re write of history by powerful people who have an agenda.

Before Columbus the Mass and the Bible are not documented as present in the Western Hemisphere. Since Columbus they have never been absent.

That is what the current media/academic power structure does not like, and would undo as much as possible.
 
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I wonder if a better solution would have been not to cover up the Columbus murals but to add other murals giving native American perspectives.

I was a little worried when I started listening to the bishop that when he said ‘full story’ he meant ‘politically correct story’ but I don’t think that was the case.

From my understanding I am guessing the Columbus murals were the only ones prominently displayed but now digital copies will be alongside other illustrations at a different venue giving what the bishop refers to as ‘the full story’.

I think the bishop is being fair but would prefer my suggested solution.
 
Give it time; redactive history will be supplanted by hiding any hint of another past that has not passed the new censorship. The business with Columbus started in 1992 when the unfavorable movies and re-writes we born. Some was justified, and some was not.
 
I was visiting family in South Bend recently and just had to go by the main building to see the murals before they are covered up, and having seen them my opinion of the decision is - if possible - lower than it was before.

Seven of the ten paintings are about Columbus and the people involved in his voyages and contain no indians at all. In the other three their presence is depicted in what would reasonably be called historically accurate circumstances.

I picked up one of the handouts that are present in the building that discusses the murals. On the front cover is a quotation from William Faulkner that says: "The past is never dead. It is not even past." Given that the past is being re-written it would seem that Faulkner was right, just not in the way he imagined. What a hugely ironic citation.
 
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