Notre Dame is an independent, national Catholic university. It is run by a board. The pope cannot close it down.
...and it has been infiltrated by liberals like the larger Catholic Church, other churches, our schools, universities and our military.
If I am not mistaken, the Bishop in that diocese has the power to strip them of the use of the word “Catholic,” and it should be done post-haste.
No, but a pope can impose all sorts of limits or mandates on the order to which the priest, who is president, belongs. He could forbid the saying of Mass on campus. He could force the order to abandon the campus. He could do all sorts of things. Prudentially, though, the pope has not seen fit to do so for an number of reasons that are debatable. But the decision rests with the pope, for sure, as to whether there will be any significant consequences for the consistent mooning of catholic doctrine that the president and his ilk keep engaging in.
The local bishop can (and IMO, should) declare Notre Dame to be non-Catholic.
“Notre Dame is an independent, national Catholic university. It is run by a board. The pope cannot close it down.”
Shouldn’t this read:
Notre Dame is an independent, national formerly Catholic university. It is run by a board. The pope cannot close it down.
How can Notre Dame still be considered Catholic when its officials repeatedly take positions in conflict with Catholic teaching? It’s clearly time for the local bishop to bite the bullet and do what needs to be done.
Then they should drop the pretense of calling themselves Catholic and simply eliminate the word “Catholic” from their university.