Word: hesburgh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hesburgh & Notre Dame...
...HESBURGH President...
...graduate magna cum laude of a ranking Jesuit institution, Fordham, I observe that the fatal intellectual schism that rends Catholic colleges has seldom been more openly revealed than in your story on Notre Dame's Father Hesburgh...
...Hesburgh aims to break free of any narrow Catholic mold-yet retain the "moral dimension" of Catholic teaching. "This moral belief," says he, "is simply the dignity of man as a child of God. All branches of knowledge are seen as being of service to man." Notre Dame's business school, for example, has a separate course on business ethics. In English classes, famed Professor Frank O'Malley focuses on such themes as the nature of suffering. Hesburgh himself is particularly interested in science: "I don't sit around worrying that tomorrow science is going to come...
Academic freedom, insists Hesburgh, can and should flourish at a Catholic cam pus. Restrictions may occur, he concedes; in population studies, for example, birth control cannot be approved as a solution. But there restrictions end-or should end: "In nine years, I have never said to a single professor that any book or doctrine is out of bounds. I have no wish to be a medieval...