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The inaugural address of Fr. John Jenkins, new president of Notre Dame:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Catholic Church needs a university whose scholars can help pass on its intellectual tradition, even as they address the challenges and the opportunities the Church faces in this century.  <\/p>\n

There are certainly many other truly great universities in this country.  Many of them began as religious, faith-inspired institutions, but nearly all have left that founding character behind. One finds among them a disconnect between the academic enterprise and an over-arching religious and moral framework that orients academic activity and defines a good human life.              <\/p>\n

My presidency will be driven by a whole-hearted commitment to uniting and integrating these two indispensable and wholly compatible strands of higher learning: academic excellence and religious faith.     <\/p>\n

Building on our tradition as a Catholic university, and determined to be counted among the preeminent universities in this country, Notre Dame will provide an alternative for the 21st century \u2013 a place of higher learning that plays host to world-changing teaching and research, but where technical knowledge does not outrun moral wisdom, where the goal of education is to help students live a good human life, where our restless quest to understand the world not only lives in harmony with faith but is strengthened by it.   <\/p>\n

We seek worldly knowledge, confident that the world exhibits coherence that reflects a Creator.  We will train the intellects of our students, cultivate their faith and instill the virtues necessary for living a good life. We will strive to build a community generous to those in need and responsive to the demands of justice \u2013 strengthened by grace and guided by the command to love God and neighbor. <\/p>\n

This is no easy mission. But its difficulty is not our concern; we did not create the mission, and we cannot change it. The word \u201cmission\u201d derives from the Latin root missus<\/em> \u2013 which means \u201csent.\u201d We<\/u> have<\/u> been<\/u> sent<\/u> \u2013 to seek God, study the world, and serve humanity.  <\/p>\n

If we are clear in our purpose, we will excel in our ideals.   <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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