Good luck appealing to Our Lady for help ND considering: 1. you blocked the view of Touchdown Jesus from the field and 2. you gave a honorary degree to a thug Chicago politician who is more pro-abort than Barbara Boxer. I’m a Catholic who would root for BYU over ND.
The author is an eternal optimist (what can I say?):
"Anyone who has read the works of Fr. McBrien, and several other professors, knows that there is a threat to (Notre Dame's) Catholicism from within as well. But unlike Harvard or Yale, Northwestern or Southern Cal, all former Christian universities that are now secular schools, Notre Dame has the weapon to fight all heresies, namely Notre Dame Herself ... for the modern infidels to take control here, they would have to blow the Dame off the Dome, rip the heart (the Eucharist) out of Sacred Heart (Church) and lastly, rock by rock, tear the Grotto apart. And legions of Her sons and daughters would willingly die martyrs before they would allow that to happen." -from
"Champions of Faith" by Tom O'Toole
He has created an apostolate for his beloved Notre Dame ...
Suffering Irish.