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...satellite to 37 cities around the country. But the 3,000 other alumni, dignitaries and Catholic clergy who crowded into Washington's cavernous Constitution Hall on Oct. 1 did not come for the stargazing alone. Their purpose was to kick off a yearlong celebration of the 200th anniversary of Georgetown University, the nation's oldest Catholic institution of higher learning. The festivities were a bit early: Georgetown was actually founded in 1789. But that hardly seemed to matter to Pope John Paul II, who sent along his blessings and a pointed message. Though Georgetown's work "now transcends the interests...
...wake of these changes came a boom in enrollments, endowments and prestige at Catholic schools. The University of Notre Dame, once known mainly as a football factory, now boasts that 80% of its undergraduates were in the top 10% of their high school class. Georgetown, where 40% of the student body is non-Catholic, can afford to reject more than three-quarters of its applicants. Catholic universities, says Father Theodore Hesburgh, former president of Notre Dame, are "first-rate and getting better...
...large, required retreats and classroom crucifixes have gone the way of the Latin Mass. Mixed-sex dorms and university-sponsored advice on birth control and abortion are still officially proscribed, but in practice most Catholic schools do not actively police personal behavior. Nor do they turn a blind eye: Georgetown tried unsuccessfully to refuse funding for a gay student group...
...three years ago, when the Vatican proposed a policy that would allow a bishop to strip a school of its Catholic status if it did not meet standards of orthodoxy. The policy, which is expected to be released in final form sometime next year, has drawn fire from Georgetown president Timothy Healy and other prominent U.S. Catholic educators, who say it would destroy academic freedom...
Unlike the Burmese, most Haitians have been so numbed by generations of brutal tyranny that they have not been exposed to the concept of constitutional rule and limits on the arbitrariness of government. Anthony Downs, a Georgetown University political scientist, stresses the difficulty of sowing the seeds of democracy in a soil that has never grown that crop before. Says Downs: "People who have tried to start instant democracies have almost always failed...