Notre Dame a Religious Institution? Since When!
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- Football coach fired because he didn’t get the top recruits for two years in a row (Tyrone Willingham, coincidently African American) and he failed to get his team to the “big money” bowl game two years in a row.
- Priest plagiarizes portion of book on the Pope! (Father Richard McBrien, accused twice of plagiarism…cleared by University once, caught with his pants down the second time!)
- Would anyone like to survey the football team and see how many of them are Catholic? (Sign me up and let me put a Vegas bet on it that it’s a little heavy on the Baptist side!)
You can see where I’m going with this. Notre Dame is abhorrent for making a fuss over the President’s policies on abortion and protesting his appearance when they are no more representative of a Religious Institution than the Knights of Columbus are at a Friday Night Fish Fry. According to Notre Dame History Professor Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C, the percent of Notre Dame staff that checks “yes” on survey as to whether they are Catholic or not is only 53%. What is going on inside the walls of Notre Dame, according to Miscamble, is nothing akin to the Catholic traditions that cosmetically denote the campus.
I don’t mean to rag on an institution that is already having a heck of a time deciding what to do with itself in this world. (Do they let priests marry? Do they pay off former altar boys or go through messy litigation? Questions, Questions, Questions!) It’s a tough time to be Catholic. So how about alienating the President of the United States and getting holier than the Pope, who in 2007 honored Nicholas Sarkozy, the pro-choice President of France, by inviting him to the Vatican and bestowing the title of Honorary Chanoine.
Hmm…What are we saying when our educational institutions are hypocritical and antiquated? Perhaps Notre Dame needs to rethink its priorities and decide what type of school its going to be…one of the greatest football institutions in America or a Catholic banner waving monstrosity of outdated ideals that not even the Pope adheres to.
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