Posted on 11/01/2005 2:04:26 PM PST by Coleus
These were off the list already...
The turning point came shortly after the Land o' Lakes Conference in the late '60s, when bishops surrendered ecclesiastical control of college boards to lay people. The rest is history. The only truly Catholic colleges that remain are on Coleus' list.
Nah, the turning point was when Christ said, "You will be hated because of me" (paraphrase, but not by much).
True. But the proximate cause, at least with respect to the decline of Catholic higher ed, was the Land o' Lakes conference.
A telling exerpt:
With Robert Henle, academic vice president of St. Louis University, serving as a sort of recording secretary, the Land O'Lakes document took shape, establishing in its opening sentences the operative terms of the debate: "The Catholic university today must be a university in the full modern sense of the word, with a strong commitment to and concern for academic excellence. To perform its teaching and research function effectively the Catholic university must have a true autonomy and academic freedom in the face of authority of whatever kind, lay or clerical, external to the academic community itself.
True as well.
Many Christian churches were sytematically looted and destroyed of the Word from the inside at the exact same time: many or most Lutheran and Methodist (as well as several others) theological schools went the "all roads lead to heaven --- don't worry about the Bible" route at the exact same time.
It's a war that was declared circa 34-36AD, and people need to wake up and stop wishing they were under attack. The enemy is not going away.
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