{"id":6638,"date":"2010-08-03T14:34:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T14:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/08\/howell-rehired-at-univ-of-illi.html"},"modified":"2010-08-03T14:34:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T14:34:50","slug":"howell-rehired-at-univ-of-illi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/08\/howell-rehired-at-univ-of-illi.html","title":{"rendered":"Howell Rehired at Univ of Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you see this<\/a><\/b>?<\/p>\n

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K<\/span>enneth Howell was booted from his job at the University of Illinois<\/span> for teaching<\/span> Catholicism<\/span>. His job at the University of Illinois, as it happens, was teaching Catholicism. <\/p>\n

After over two months of controversy over a firing that should have never have happened, he has been offered his job back. The incident exemplifies the scandals <\/strong>that continue at core institutions of our Western culture. It exposes, once again, the lie that is the popular conception of “tolerance,” so widely in vogue and by no coincidence a tenet of left-wing ideology. <\/span><\/div>\n


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And from Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/b>:
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But the reinstatement is temporary. It does not affect an ongoing faculty review, which has been investigating whether Howell’s immediate removal violated his academic freedom or right to due process.<\/p>\n

Another faculty committee appointed to examine the circumstances of Howell’s compensation concluded that the university’s relationship with St. John’s Catholic Newman Center, the Catholic ministry on campus, was improper.<\/p>\n

Though Howell taught Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought in university classrooms, he served on the payroll of the Newman Center funded by the Diocese of Peoria — an agreement that remained in place despite scholars’ objections when a religious studies program was established in 1971.<\/p>\n

Howell now will earn $10,000 from the university for teaching Introduction to Catholicism in the religious studies department this fall.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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