[wideawake]

It's ridiculous because he describes a place where the students read English news magazines in class, didn't care about theological studies and that the faculty colluded in plagiarism because they were afraid of having fewer graduates.

In reality, the Angelicum in 1963 as now is difficult to get into and attracts the best and most motivated students of theology. Only a minority of students then as now were from English-speaking countries, so the notion of everyone reading American newsmags in class is therefore preposterous.

The school was well-known for the enthusiasm of it's student body - for years Professor Garrigou-Lagrange held extra lectures on Saturdays that were packed to the rafters.

In point of fact, because of its growing popularity, the Pope promoted it from being a theological school to a full-fledged university in 1963.

It's quite convenient for the author to claim he went there but that he never took a degree.

[small voice in the wilderness]

"And he said, Nay, father Abraham; but if one went unto them from the dead they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither wil they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead." (Luke 16:30-31).

In order to find, one has to be searching.