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.
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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