Ralph's "Knights" in shining armor: can McInerny's "murders" save Notre Dame? [Catholic Caucus]

RenewAmerica ^ | 4-28-10 | Tom O'Toole

[mlizzy]

"It's been a while since I saw a priest here in a Roman Collar. Except Fr. Hesburgh, but he's not on campus much since his retirement."

"So you're at Notre Dame?"

"My husband's doing graduate work." She hesitated. "In theology..."

"Good God!" — Kate, to Father Dowling, from A Cardinal Offense

What he objected to was substituting generic excellence — conceding that was what the university was getting with these clowns... — and an excellence peculiar to Notre Dame. "They [the current faculty] would be equally happy or unhappy at Meatball Tech, providing the salary was as astronomical as here."

"You were about to say something about football."

"Well...when did the team begin to sink in the national standings? When we [stopped] recruiting...the Catholic high schools of Chicago, the parishes of Pennsylvania...and began to recruit the same kids every other place was..." — Donald Weber, to Roger Knight, in Celt and Pepper

[mlizzy]

A great testament to one of Notre Dame's finest Catholic professors (over 50 years), and author of the Father Dowling Mysteries.

[Salvation]

**”Well...when did the team begin to sink in the national standings? When we [stopped] recruiting...the Catholic high schools of Chicago, the parishes of Pennsylvania...and began to recruit the same kids every other place was...” — Donald Weber, to Roger Knight, in Celt and Pepper**

Something to think about right there. Looking forward to reading the entire article.

[Tax-chick]

I like the Knight series. It’s too bad there won’t be more until I reach the Library of the Hereafter!