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An outstanding article! Extremely informative.

A case can be made that a substantial factor causing all of this was, and continues to be, the betrayal of the faith by Catholic academics with the Land O'Lakes Statement in 1967, which has metastasized like cancer throughout the Church ever since.

The cancer metaphor is apt. It's time for the Church to perform some chemotherapy.

Clearly, the secularization and abandonment of fundamental church teachings, and even principle, have been going on longer than I had thought at Catholic Universities. What a shame...and what a disservice to their church, and tragedy to their youth.

Thus has it led to such as this:

OBAMA & DISHONOR AT NOTRE DAME
IOW, just listen to the teleprompter and ignore what the man actually does

Where the very antithesis of fundamental, bedrock doctrine and principle is now honored there.

As a result, generations of Catholic students and graduates have been and are being ill formed and misled in their faith, or have lost it altogether.
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Some are just disgusted, and they seek out another Christian sect whose educators and leaders more closely adhere to Christ's teachings.

I am one of those former Catholics.

I am an alumna of Villanova (CINO) University, an Augustinian university. I testify that most of my professors broke the First Commandment by worshiping Karl Marx instead of God.

Laity are uncatechized, clergy are unwilling to instruct them, and quisling bishops are afraid to proclaim the Gospel.
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All while claiming they are the true church of Christ.

Is this what Jesus would do?

In 1990 Pope John Paul II promulgated Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), his apostolic constitution on Catholic universities, which defined the nature and purpose of a Catholic university and established measurable standards such a university was to follow….ECE has had no impact on the corporate owners of the rebellious colleges and universities that have prospered under the Land O'Lakes philosophy. After eighteen years, the U.S. bishops who have the responsibility to enforce ECE have yet to summon the courage to do so.

I am curious as to what levers the bishops have to enforce this standard.

At one time I would suspect that the local diocese held the deeds to these universities.

Do they still? Could they evict these posers and start a new.

Certainly at this point the Church would suffer backlash if it tried to exercise control over the universities at this point but if these schools do not follow basic Church doctrine they should not be advertising themselves as Catholic.

The schools should either reform or stop the false advertising.