No, this won’t be a long essay. Anne Hendershott has already written one for us, and it is excellent, the best overview of Catholic higher education
today in the United States I’ve come across. It includes some interesting if distressing history as well.
(History often is distressing, is it not? I wonder what that says about us who
have a compulsion to study it.)
Yes, I do use the word “Catholic” loosely. I can be creative in choosing words to
describe, say, Georgetown, but “Catholic” is rarely one of them. “Jesuit” maybe.
As Hendershott writes, there are rays of hope;
there are exceptional genuinely Catholic universities out there. But the larger ones have invariably
taken the “Catholic” and the “education” for that matter out of Catholic higher
education.
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Personal
Note:
Speaking
of higher education, I have completed my Patristics course. So I may torment you more often for a
couple months or so.
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