{"id":3126,"date":"2006-04-14T00:58:07","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T00:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/solomonic.html"},"modified":"2006-04-14T00:58:07","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T00:58:07","slug":"solomonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/solomonic.html","title":{"rendered":"Solomonic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. David Solomon of Notre Dame, in the WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n

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Although Father Jenkins called his announcement the "Closing Statement," the debate is unlikely to go away. More is at stake than the fairly standard, indeed humdrum, questions about "censorship" and "free speech" on campus. To some of us–and I speak as a Notre Dame professor–Father Jenkins’s decision is one more step in a long process of secularization: It has already radically changed the major Protestant universities in this country; it is now proceeding apace at the Catholic ones. <\/p>\n

At Notre Dame, this secularization is most evident in the composition of the faculty. While roughly 85% of Notre Dame students are Catholic, the percentage of Catholic faculty has dropped precipitously in the past few decades, reaching its current number of barely 50%, and there is no sign that this trend will be reversed. More important, the debate initiated by Father Jenkins exposed a great deal of hostility among faculty members toward traditional Catholic teachings as well as a confusion about the nature of Catholic higher education itself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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