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...Artist Koerner painted Father Hesburgh with a Giotto madonna, an atomic equation and a chemical formula to "represent the changeless and the changing-both in Hesburgh's domain." The portrait took a week of intensive sittings, and Koerner felt that "Hesburgh helped me paint it just by being a man of great capacity for compassion and passion." The artist also came away impressed by the subject's sense of discipline: "He would hold the pose for two or three hours without moving a finger...
...Natural Doubt." One result of better students is a more intellectual Catholicism, an increase in the "natural doubt" that sometimes hits parochial school graduates in college and even produces some apostates. According to Hesburgh, "practically all" of his students believe in God. But "you run a hazard working with kids," he says. Real belief comes from experience, perhaps from "darkness, not light." With a 19-year-old, "you can't just saw off the top of his head and pour it in. All you can do is give him a basis of order that will prepare him to under...
...students and most faculty members as the worst department on campus. Staffed entirely by 24 priests, it offers no major-for fear nobody will seek it. But Notre Dame is working toward improvement: some 25 young C.S.C. priests are studying for their S.T.D.s at foreign universities, and Hesburgh hopes to snap up 10 or 15 of them. "We've got our Jacques Maritains coming up," he says...
...Aaron Abell, a Catholic, "the Christian ethic is not stressed at all." A political science course, on the other hand, devotes half its reading to Augustine and Aquinas. Papal encyclicals on social justice show up in economics. Biology and the dogma of virgin birth do not conflict because, in Hesburgh's view, "biology does not study miracles." Historian Matthew Fitzsimons hopes that "a Christian view of man makes sense out of sacrifice and suffering...
...committed to Truth," says Hesburgh, "living in a world where most academic endeavor concerns only natural truth, as much separated from supernatural truth, the divine wisdom of theology, as sinful man was separated from God before the Incarnation. If these extremes are to be united, a work of mediation is needed. We must somehow match secular or state universities in their comprehension of a vast spectrum of natural truths in the arts and sciences, while at the same time we must be in full possession of our own true heritage of theological wisdom...