Mr. Moore, I have read your response. My initial reaction is, shame on you. In my day at Notre Dame, there was a nightclub on S. Michigan Street called "The Torch Club", where nude and lewd dancing took place. Yes, that type of thing goes on in the world. Should it have taken place on the ND campus, because it took place in downtown South Bend? No.
This calls to mind a couple of other recent episodes where you and other administrators did not exactly cover yourselves in glory. First is the appearance on campus of Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the pro-abortion Hebraic American. If he wanted to spew his pro-abort garbage and woo voters in Indiana, he certainly could have gone to the St. Joseph County courthouse steps. No. He wanted to have his viewpoint legitimized with the famed Marian Shrine, the Golden Dome, in the background (never mind that in the Talmud, to which Lieberman ascribes, views Our Blessed Mother as a prostitute). As a pro-abort who spits on Our Blessed Mother every time he runs his mouth about "freedom of choice", he should have been categorically excluded from campus.
Further, Notre Dame is guilty of broadcasting tasteless NBC sit-coms, which at the very least are immoral, and are actually pernicious and anti-Catholic in nature. If you don't believe me on this, take a look at the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights' web site, www.catholicleague.org.
It amazes me that, in the name of "academic freedom", ND allows utter trash and filth like the "Monologues" on campus, and yet does not allow even one traditional Latin Mass in any of the churches or chapels on campus. Notre Dame Magazine a couple of years ago ran an article by a "history professor" which excoriated the traditional Latin Mass, the Mass great martyrs like St. Thomas More and St. Oliver Plunkett died for, the one my Irish ancestors were persecuted for.
There have been very few times in the past 30 years that I have been ashamed to be a Notre Dame man. The "Monologues" incident is one of them. This incident has proven correct Judge Robert Bork's notable statement in "Slouching Toward Gomorrah"--the President of Notre Dame cares more about what the presidents of Harvard and Yale think than what the Pope thinks.
Notre Dame and St. Mary's ought to be three square miles of truth and decency. To the extent you defend the "Monologues" incident, you fail in your duties as a Catholic and as a man. Shame on you. Yours in Notre Dame, ND76