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...critical and less defensive about the kind of education they are providing. The man who heads one of Catholicism's best-known schools, Notre Dame, and has given it a new kind of reputation, represents the new trend in Roman Catholic education. And thus the Rev. Theodore Martin Hesburgh appears on TIME's cover...
...Catholic university is a contradiction in terms," George Bernard Shaw once said. The Rev. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame, can readily see Shaw's point-that religious dogma seems incompatible with the scientific spirit of skeptical, free inquiry. He can just as readily reply to Shaw. "We must cherish both values. We must reflect the 'ancient beauty, ever old and ever new,' " he says. "There is no conflict between science and theology except where there is bad science or bad theology...
...this precept, Father Hesburgh, 44, is guiding the country's best-known Roman Catholic university, and has become the most influential figure in the reshaping of Catholic higher education in the U.S. A school once known chiefly for a football team is trying to rise above the undistinguished record of U.S. Catholic colleges in general and reach for the renown of the Catholic universities of the Middle Ages...
...where, in such respects as wealth, numbers, and strength of organization, it is so powerful," wrote Historian D. W. Brogan. "The general Catholic community in America does not know what scholarship is," said Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel of Maryland's Woodstock College. And the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, Hesburgh's predecessor at Notre Dame, asked sorrowfully, "Where are the Catholic Salks, Oppenheimers, Einsteins...
...Notre Dame's President Hesburgh, all this means that "we have our work...