Notre Dame Motu Proprio Update

I was greeted this morning with excellent news from our friend the Sober Sophomore regarding the implementation of Summorum Pontificium on the campus of Our Lady's University.

After several weeks of promising rumors, Campus Ministry has determined on a very favorable course of action regarding the Tridentine liturgy: a regularly-scheduled recited mass in the Extraordinary Form will be celebrated in the chapel of Alumni Hall dorm (it's generally considered one of the most beautiful on campus, and possessing a fine high altar, shown above) at 8 AM on Sundays, starting after September 14; and starting in second semester, missae cantatae will be offered once or twice a term on special occasions with music by the official university choirs. This is extremely promising, and also likely to spread interest in the rite among a wider section of the student body. You can find the official statement here.

In recent years, I have found Campus Ministry to be very responsive to grassroots requests for traditional devotions such as Eucharistic Adoration and the now-annual Procession, as well as sponsoring, I'm told, a trip last year to St. John Cantius for their annual All Souls' Requiem! This good news only further reinforces my impressions of this excellent trend.

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The Motu Proprio must have brought them out of the woodwork. We know for sure they are not in the Theology Department, however. Well, there is that Ralph McInnerny fellow though...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the American bishops have no idea how many people want the Latin Mass. Many have never said it out loud, even to themselves, much less the bishop or a priest. The bishops think that the Latin Mass is all about those SSPX people and has nothing to do with the guy in the pew every week.

And wait until it appears on EWTN in Hi-Def done by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter with a glorious Schola! And it will then be re-played at about 5 different time slots to catch every continent!

Yadda Yadda!

Great news! I was there about 10 years ago for a summer event (I don’t even remember the name) for orthodox Catholics, and someone told us one evening that there were “two Notre Dames.” There was the one that the press loved, completely heretical and awful, and then there was the other one, which had people like Fr. Marvin O’Connell, Ralph McInerny, etc.

I have no idea how these people hung on, but they did, and I actually think they’re going to come out on top!

For those who haven’t been there, it’s a beautiful campus and they have some very beautiful chapels and shrines.

In the Religion forum, on a thread titled Notre Dame Motu Proprio Update, ArrogantBustard wrote: Interesting. I had no idea there were that many sane people at ND.

ND produced Joe Montana. They can't be ALL bad.

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I don't know how is was 10 years ago but currently most students seem to be conservative (my son is a student there). The faculty varies from conservative to liberal and finding openly believing Catholic instructors is not a problem.

Most importantly as a Catholic University the students learn they need not be afraid to be both totally Catholic and first class scholars.

One of the professors expressed this well in Notre Dame magazine, "because of Notre Dame's Catholic identity, many people here understand that religion is not a part of life but rather influences the way in which all of life is understood and experienced."(Why Notre Dame?)

So from my perspective if it was true that believers were only holding on 10 years ago, in the present age, they have come out on top.

So from my perspective if it was true that believers were only holding on 10 years ago, in the present age, they have come out on top.

I think you're right. Of course, the old guard isn't going to go without getting in a few last nasty licks, but I think they're on the way out.

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Tuesday, August 28

Notre Dame Motu Proprio Update

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