Posted on 11/23/2013 10:13:19 AM PST by Ripliancum
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — When the BYU and Notre Dame football teams compete in South bend, Indiana Saturday, it will bring together two unique schools that share a faith-based approach that makes them different from other schools.
Father John I. Jenkins has been president of Notre Dame since 2005. In a rare interview, he discussed running a faith-based school in a secular world.
"There is no great virtue in being just like everybody else," Rev. Jenkins said. "If you are different, and can embrace that, you can make a difference. If you fail to be different, who cares? Everybody can do that. I think the distinctiveness of BYU and Notre Dame are their strengths."
Rev. Jenkins said that he believes religion and education are about shaping people as human beings, so it's important that these schools hold their ground in maintaining faith-based education.
"If we can't call on the richness of our religious traditions to help inform how we (educate), to help young people form their consciousness, to grow as a people, education is poorer for it. Institutions like BYU and Notre Dame have a rich legacy that they should draw on in their education efforts," Rev. Jenkins said.
In a world where religion is part of so many issues — both positively and negatively — Rev. Jenkins believes that the power of religion can be a powerful, positive tool...
...Many people may not realize that the connection between these schools goes so far back, and Rev. Jenkins said the relationship was positive from the beginning. In fact, Father Sorin and Brigham Young exchanged correspondence at the time.
"I know Brigham Young was very favorable to these women and the work they did," he said....
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Secret tunnel?
Two soup cans and a string.
what values does Notre Dame claim to have?
(recall when ND gave an honorary doctorate to a certain Occupant of our White House ... a man whose ONLY known legislative “accomplishment” was to sponsor an Illinois bill to legalize infanticide (killing the baby after delivery if a planned abortion failed to do the job). And, a man who has been assaulting and attacking the Church (Catholic, Protestant, also Jews) ever since.
We’d like to know just what values Notre Dame has?
They most assuredly are not Biblical values....
The President of Notre Dame does not agree with you.
Well, I don’t know about BYU, but Notre Dame sure can’t claim to be faith based these days. Rather, if they do claim to be, pray tell, what faith?
And the president of ND allowed a cross to be covered when O was there because it was considered by O to be too religious.
The faux religious virtue of some institutions never ceases to amuse me
That’s precisely the problem, thank you.
(Disclosure: I was very seriously considering a graduate theology degree but decided against attending any college whose leadership so patently contradicts Biblical teaching or the school’s received tradition.)
Notre Dame whose Board Members profit from Embryonic Stem Cell research and whose other Board Members help provide abortions to third world countries? Notre Dame whose President arrests an elderly priest for praying the Rosary? Just what faith does Notre Dame represent?
That is unbelievable.Can you provide a link.
That is unbelievable.Can you provide a link.
sorry about that my feeble mind conflated Georgetown and ND….an understandable mistake
Yes. It appears to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Such are far worse than anti-God types who have the basic decency of being honest about what, or who, they represent or serve.
Notre Dame established January 15, 1844
BYU established Oct. 16, 1875
Just some history.
What shared values does mormonism and Catholicism have?
Well, Catholicism considers mormonism a cult and moirmonism considers Catholicism, "the great whore of Babylon".
Anyone want links? I can ping a few people and get them, lickety split.
Disgraceful that any Catholic school would ever cover a cross but I can understand heathen 0bama being afraid of the cross.
Ah... but ND wouldn’t be playing ball at all if not for Navy in the 30’s.
Go Navy Beat Army
USNA ‘89
Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the “whore of Babylon” whom the Lord denounces
Apostle Orson Pratt The Seer, Vol.2, No.4, p.255
D&C 29:21:
“And the great and abominable church, which is the whore of all the earth, shall be cast down by devouring fire”
There are dozens more, still trying to figure out the “shared values”.
yes and yes
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