[metmom]

And I’m sure it’s already happening in public schools.

It’s just a matter of hearing about it.

What I can’t figure is just how these so-called Catholic universities get away with calling themselves Catholic.

[Norm Lenhart]

Because the Catholic leadership is fully liberal.

[Mrs. Don-o]

YOu and me both.

[Personal Responsibility]

With their resistance to critical thinking and/or free thinking, I don’t see how they get away with calling themselves universities.

[NorthMountain]

I can’t figure is just how these so-called Catholic universities get away with calling themselves Catholic.

OK ... assuming you're acting in good faith, here ...

Let's suppose a hypothetical: You've just formulated a brown, sweet, caffeinated carbonated beverage, and you'd like to sell it. "Coca-Cola" seems like a wonderful name; it sort of describes the contents of your beverage. Comment, please, on the consequences of your hypothetical act of marketing your beverage as "Coca-Cola".

[Theodore R.]

Uninformed Catholic peoples must still be making donations to “the cause”.

[BlackElk]

In 1967, there was a conference held at Land o' Lakes, Wisconsin to which all Catholic colleges and universities were invited. It was chaired by the infamous Fr. Theodore Hesburgh (hanging off the left edge of the universe by his breaking fingernails) who was the president of Notre Dame University when it began to go bad. The secretary was Fr. Robert Henle, SJ, former president of Georgetown University who had actual academic accomplishments unlike Hesburgh.

The purpose of the conference was to get the Catholic colleges and universities to sign a joint statement abandoning their Catholic status. The purpose? As Catholic institutions, they were subject to local bishops' authority and that non-Catholic "scholars" would never respect their intellectual integrity and independence so long as bishops could interfere.

All but 6 of the then Catholic colleges signed. I do not recall the full list of non-signees but Grenier College in Erie, PA, and St. John's University in Queens, NY, were two who refused to sign.

Of course, there was a potential problem in abandoning the formal Catholic affiliation. How to keep farming Catholics for donations, endowments and students when the school had renounced its Catholic identity. No problem! Just call the defecting school "a school of Catholic Heritage." The sheep gloss over that language and feel reassured that the school is still Catholic.

By analogy, the United States under Obozo, is a nation of constitutional heritage; i.e. we were once governed as a nation under a constitution restricting the powers of government but, while that is no longer true, we get a warm fuzzy feeling over the good old days just as Christians enjoy Silent Night at Christmastime or the Winter Holiday or whatever.

I attended and graduated a Jesuit prep school soooooo long ago that the Jebbies were STILL Catholic. If Marquette tells anyone that it is a Catholic school, whoever says that on behalf of the school is a liar. The Jebbies went fully bad under a Superior General named Pedro Arrupe who was elected in 1963 and just about forcibly removed from office with a crow bar by St. John Paul II. Despite that removal, the leftist Jebbies pulled in their horns, elected Hans Pieter Kolvenbach and quietly awaited JP II's death to continue their leftward march.

That's how.

May God bless you and yours!