No surprises here. Unfortunately many of the powers that be at Notre Dame, especially in the theology dept and campus ministry, are heterodox liberals. The school paper, from which this article came, is also much more leftist than the campus at large. What you won't hear about are the many professors, students, and priests at Notre Dame who do approve of the Pope's action. When I was a student at ND, I knew many young men who were either seminarians or in the pre-seminary program. Most of them were very solid, smart, straight, and orthodox men. The ones that weren't eventually left the pre-seminary program; they didn't go on to become Holy Cross priests. One of these seminarians remarked to me a good 4 years ago that the presence of the "lavender mafia" in so many parts of the Church is really hurting vocations in young men such as himself. I do not doubt that he and many other future priests at Notre Dame are very pleased to see the Vatican cracking down on this nonsense.
Thanks for the inside scoop on NDU. Our son is there, loving it. Sometimes the news from there makes me catch my breath, but I am always brought back to the fact that there are quiet, orthodox, 'silent majority' people everywhere.