New Updated 25th Anniversary Edition
Is Notre Dame Still Catholic? by E. Michael Jones. Revised Second Edition.
On March 25, 2009, Notre Dame was
embroiled in the biggest controversy to hit the campus since the performance of
The Vagina Monologues. A few days earlier, Notre Dame president John Jenkins,
CSC had announced that the university planned to give President Barack Obama an
honorary doctorate. Within hours of the announcement a storm of protest erupted
which showed no sign of dying down any time soon. Citing the statement of the
US Catholic Bishops in 2004, “The Catholic community and Catholic institutions
should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles.
They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest
support for their actions” the ordinary of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South
Bend, John M. D’Arcy announced that, for the first time in 25 years, he would
not be attending graduation ceremonies at Notre Dame, because “President Obama
has recently affirmed, and has now placed in public policy, his long stated
unwillingness to hold human life as sacred.”
By April, 2009 over 250,000 people had
signed a petition condemning Notre Dame’s actions, and Bishop Thomas J.
Olmstead of the Phoenix, Arizona diocese joined with his colleague Bishop
D’Arcy in denouncing Jenkins’ decision, calling the decision to honor President
Obama a “public act of disobedience” and a “grave mistake.” This story didn’t
begin in 2009.
From June 1984 to January 1988 Fidelity
Magazine published a series of articles on Notre Dame that rocked the Catholic
World. Beginning with a survey of the theology department and ending with an
article on why the Chairman of the Liturgy Department was found shot to death
in the basement of his home, this series of articles described the trajectory
at mid-point that Father Hesburgh began when he stole Notre Dame from the
Catholic Church in 1967.
What began as a series of articles in
1984 grew over the next 25 years into an extensive dossier of what went wrong
at Notre Dame, what went wrong with Catholic higher education, and what went
wrong with the Church in America. No one has examined the situation at Notre
Dame over the past 25 years more closely than E. Michael Jones. Taken together
these articles tell the compelling story of the demise of Catholic education in
America. They also explain the demise of Catholic culture and Catholic
political power during the same period of time. Is Notre Dame Still Catholic? - How Catholic higher
education has failed the Church and impoverished the souls of today's students. $27 + S&H, Softbound.
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