I was, so what?
I will continue to defend Notre Dame, one of the finest institutions in the world,
I've been involved in well over a hundred of these Notre Dame threads over the past year and I don't recall ANYONE claiming that it is not a fine academic institution, but so are Harvard, Yale, Princeton and a whole bunch of other schools.
face of those who comdemn entire institutions, and all of the people associated with them,
I haven't seen this either.
on the basis of disagreement with the misguided decisions of a few.
We aren't talking about the misguided decisions of a few, we are talking about the deliberate decision of the President of Notre Dame to allow the most pro-abortion president in American history to give the commencement address, a decision that was denounced by dozens of bishops and also resulted in the loss of a lot of financial support from alumni.
I did not say it was one of the finest institutions only in academics. Those are your words. My words about chapel vis a vis Ivy schools made that point sufficiently. Your own words applauding ND alumni withholding finances would seem to reinforce it. And the President of the University isn’t even “a few”. He is one man. Attack him all you want. I was never at any point in this discussion defending him, but only the institution, itself, wholescale attacks upon which were, indeed, the beginning of my defense. Never the President of the University, much less the President of the U.S., whom I hold to be worse than a poisonous snake.