There is a worthwhile and informational article in the Washington Post today, discussing expectations that the Holy Father will articulate a tough message against the malfeasance rampant in Catholic institutions of higher learning.
The information in the article includes a mini-catalogue of the horrendous spectacles of counter-Catholic and outright anti-Catholic teaching at nominally Catholic institutions like Notre Dame and Georgetown. Some of these have shown up in our pages as news items.
For all the wishful thinking this may engender in us, perhaps the most realistic, albeit bleak, forecast was offered in the last paragraph:
“Whatever he says, I think, for the most part, it will fall on deaf ears,” said Derry Connolly, president of John Paul the Great Catholic University. “Universities are tough institutions to turn around, and faculty are very powerful. . . . I don’t think it will have much of an effect.”
