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To: erod

Personally, I see a significant difference on this between Notre Dame, where despite its many well-known faults there is a substantial effort to be Catholic school on the part of many students, alumni and faculty, and the Jesuit universities like Boston College and Georgetown which, it seems to me at least, are much further along towards being completely non-Catholic in any meaningful sense. I realize that others may disagree. Notre Dame has a much higher percentage of self-identified Catholic students (approx. 85%) than Boston College (70%) or Georgetown (51%). Granted, comparison with these and other Jesuit institutions is damning with faint praise. All that said, I think Christendom College and Thomas Aquinas and Steubenville and the others identified above are all great and I don’t doubt that they are doing a much better job of providing a Catholic education.


12 posted on 05/22/2014 1:24:37 PM PDT by Stingray51
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To: Stingray51
I see a significant difference on this between Notre Dame, where despite its many well-known faults there is a substantial effort to be Catholic school on the part of many students, alumni and faculty

Sorry friend, I don't ND advocates a lot of contradictory teachings that do not represent the Catholic faith such as homosexual groups on campus and a liberal philosophy that is ingrained in much of the faculty, students and congregation on campus. Living in the Chicago area I know some great Catholics who attended school there, but unfortunately ND has really embraced a watered down Catholic dogma, it's a shame too because they used to be such a great institution for Catholicism.

20 posted on 05/22/2014 4:35:12 PM PDT by erod
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Boston College just had John Kerry as Commencement speaker.

The Jesuit colleges have all been very aggressive about defying the bishops’ request not to honor pro-abortion people.

The bishops of the U.S. should get together and expel the Jesuits from every diocese in the country.

It will never happen, though. Too many bishops like to snuggle up to pro-abortion politicians themselves.


26 posted on 05/23/2014 12:07:56 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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