Comments for On “Catholic” Universities at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sun, 19 May 2013 23:50:49 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/on-catholic-universities.html#comment-7228 Never forget the unintended and often denied consequences of earhtly power, status and comfort! The search for truth quickly gives way to busy work which is easily funded and pointed out as Action and Results! Turn away from funding all of this at the voting booth! Not by turning away from any aspect of the truth as the Holy Mother Church teaches but by addressing directly the addiction that has no true oversight except by our power at election time. These unintended consequences are serious and real and will soon affect an even broader sphere at Universities, the medical schools! The Schools cannot be addicted to the "progress" of the "research" without the FUNDING! "EX UMBRIS ET IMAGINIBUS IN VERITATEM" - John R Paris Wed, 29 Jun 2011 05:48:07 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/on-catholic-universities.html#comment-7194 Fr. Schall, I would like to thank you for the many significant books and articles you have written over the years. I keep a copy of "Another Sort of Learning" on my book shelves, facing forward, to remind me never to let the school system interfere with my education. - Charles E Flynn Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:38:23 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/on-catholic-universities.html#comment-7191 Fr. Schall is fond of saying the sports pages are one of the only places in our culture where reality plays itself out... I think college athletic departments have an opportunity to set an example for higher education...use their power and finances well, return to the idea of student/athletes in college sports...even stand up to university presidents etc. - stosh Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:38:00 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/on-catholic-universities.html#comment-7189 Fr. Schall, a dozen "catholic"(sic) universities signed the Land O'Lakes Statement in 1967 which effectively removed them from the authority of the Church. Notre Dame was a signatory as was Georgetown!!!. The statement may be Googled and printed. Since then we had Sapientiae Christiana (Do you remember that one?) and Ex Corde Ecclesiae. The result of these Vatican interventions? Not a thing! Seton Hall U. (another signatory) has had a "Gay Marriage Course" since September, 2010 and it has been renewed again for the fall, 2011 semester. Forget Leo Strauss and Allan Bloom. Do you really think those Jewish gentlemen can accomplish what the Vatican can't? - Manfred Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:37:26 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/on-catholic-universities.html#comment-7188 "Our universities are like the tower of Babel..." If they truly are, then they should fall just like the tower of Babel. I always enjoy the sobering reality of Father Schall's articles, I just wish more people would start acting on them. - Aeneas Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:44:36 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/on-catholic-universities.html#comment-7185 Fr - I always enjoy your commentary, thanks. Our universities are like the tower of Babel, and will meet the same fate. - Ben H Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:27:03 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/on-catholic-universities.html#comment-7183 Fr Ted Hesburgh of Notre Dame was the driving engine that separated the mind of the Catholic university from the Church. - Dennis Larkin Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:16:57 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/on-catholic-universities.html#comment-7181 Fr. Schall, hard hitting and accurate. The Catholic Schools and universities seem to have acquiesced many decades ago to the secular demands on education, germinated in the enlightenment and brought to fruition by the likes of Dewey. The acquiescence is a submission to bondage to the world. The bondage to the world is anathema to what it means to be Catholic. It is badly misunderstood today. The most truly ignorant people in the world today are thought to be its most erudite. But those spared deep immersion in our humanistic attempts at education have exponentially higher odds of understanding what it means to be fully human than the “experts” do. I shudder at the thought of my children attending university. - Achilles Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:16:55 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/on-catholic-universities.html#comment-7180 Bravo Fr. Schall! Your essay should be required reading in every board room at every college and university in this great Nation. Thanks for your directness in, "telling it like it is". - Ray Hunkins Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:57:59 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/on-catholic-universities.html#comment-7179 More Schall, more of the time. Would that his kind are still around when my children are of university age. - W. E. Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:22:20 +0100