The Church and the University: A Pastoral Reflection on the controversy at Notre Dame [America]

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The Church and the University: A Pastoral Reflection on the controversy at Notre Dame
by Bishop John M. D’Arcy

As summer plays itself out on the beautiful campus by the lake where the young Holy Cross priest, Edward Sorin, C.S.C., pitched his camp 177 years ago and began his great adventure, we must clarify the situation that so sundered the church last spring: What it is all about and what it is not about.

It is not about President Obama. He will do some good things as president and other things with which, as Catholics, we will strongly disagree. It is ever so among presidents, and most political leaders.

It is not about Democrats versus Republicans, nor was it a replay of the recent general election.

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recondelta said:
The article by Bishop D’Arcy is one of a pair that appear in the same issue of America.
See

americamagazine.org/conte…ticle_id=11841

for the other article, which has a somewhat different point of view.
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Your link didn’t work for me, but I found the article I believe you referred to. It did not contradict the point that Bishop D’Arcy made. D’Arcy did not write an article condemning any president or choosing a poltical side, he was questioning the independence of a university that calls itself Catholic. What obligations does it have to the bishop and the faithful?

I’m glad that he’s asking this. We’re all wondering that too.
 
Many of our great private universities were started and nurtured by religious organizations, but gradually evolved to secular institutions. I suspect the process continues.
 
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