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...ropes now, because if there is anything Ignatius hates more than an Ivy League professor it is a Jesuit professor. Jesuits--an order of priests that spends much of its time being intellectual and professorial, or sometimes political, like Fathers Berrigan and Drinan, or sometimes bureaucratic, like Father Hesburgh of Notre Dame--are, in fact, the bane of Ignatius's existence. (They are the bane of most Catholics' existence, because they usually adopt a lofty air that implies they are somehow privy to the wisdom of Creation and a bunch of other theological secrets the rest of us are, quite...
Father Ted gets my vote. Hesburgh for Pope...
...Hesburgh Riddle...
...familiar riddle at Notre Dame runs, "What is the difference between God and Father Hesburgh [May 2]?" The answer is "God is everywhere; Father Hesburgh is everywhere but Notre Dame." Though some students here are quick to assert that Father Hesburgh's abundant activity elsewhere denotes a lack of concern over what happens at Notre Dame, the vast majority feel as I do: that Hesburgh merely is the main proponent of the activist philosophy that epitomizes the campus in general...
...response to the riddle, however, I must confess that most students are willing to concede a bit more difference between Father Ted and God. As for me, I find considerably less difference in Hesburgh than in any other man I've ever...