[porkchops 4 mahound]

Oh my goodness, a PROTESTANT College wants a PROTESTANT faculty!, and it turns out Roman Catholics are NOT the same as PROTESTANTS!

"The horror, the horror of it all."

Do you ever wonder what folks would stress about if they "had a life"?

This is series! A Moose bit my sister as she was cutting the cheese.

[jude24]

Don't patronize me.

[Dionysiusdecordealcis]

You are misinformed. Wheaton requires adherence to a doctrinal statement and a statement of behavior that is not exclusively Protestant, if by Protestant one means the sixteenth-century Reformers. Now they may institute a policy that requires being non-Catholic or being "Protestant" but they'd have to define "Protestant" and, if they defined it in 16th-century Calvinist or Lutheran terms on free will it would exclude all their Wesleyan and Pentecostal students. But if they define it so as to permit free will (by avoiding making a statement about predestination, which is the way the doctrinal statement reads--at least it used to), then it not only opens things up to Wesleyans and Arminian Reformed and Free Will Baptists but also to Catholics--on that point.

So they don't require faculty to be Protestant in a real sense. You are probably using the term "protestant" in a false sense--a lot of people use it to mean non-Catholic or anti-Catholic. As this imbroglio illustrates, in fact a Catholic cannot teach at Wheaton, so their policy is that they are open to anyone who can subscribe to their broadly evangelical doctrinal statement who is also not a Catholic. I wonder what would happen if an Eastern Orthodox were to say, "hey, I can sign that statement in good faith--no, it doesn't include everything that I as an Orthodox believe, but neither does it include anything that an Orthodox cannot at least put up with"? I bet they'd be readier to employ such a person than a Catholic who says he can sign it.