Diogenes, as always, has a discerning article in his “Off the Record” column for Catholic Culture website. All of the Catholic colleges that signed the Land O’Lakes declaration in 1967 should have changed their Catholic names at the same time. Notre Dame should have become South Bend College, and so on with the rest of them. Keeping Our Lady’s name, of course, gives the college its prestige and keeps the alumni money coming in. Here’s a clip from the declaration of rebellion signed by former ND President and CFR member, Father Theodore Hesburgh, over forty years ago:
“To perform its teaching and research functions 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.”
