[count-your-change]

And who has sponsored, mentored and enabled Hesburgh?

As Jesus said to the religious leaders of his day, ‘The kingdom will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing it's fruits’.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"And who has sponsored, mentored and enabled Hesburgh?"

That's an excellent question, actually. From the git-go, you'd have to say Notre Dame and the CSC's. I'd like to see the history of that, and I wonder whether the contempoary journalist/historians (like Tom Bethell, Russell Shaw and Phil Lawler) have looked into that aspect. It has its own multi-generational nature, like a perverse line of succession.

That is, a "line of succession" of defectors-in-place, who refuse to listen to the Church (see tagline.)