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...selfcriticism. "In no Western society is the intellectual prestige of Catholicism lower than in the country 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...
Belligerently Protestant. While Catholicism was in mid-journey from the Inquisition to Newman, Jesuits in 1789 founded the first U.S. Catholic university, Washington's Georgetown. Georgetown raised its head in an overwhelmingly (99%) and belligerently Protestant new country. A pamphleteer of the time warned of the "calm, shrewd, steady, systematic movement of the Jesuit order . . . to subvert the Reformation, and to crush the spirit of liberty...
...Jesuit-run Boston College (enrollment: 8,500) is a coeducational commuter college that has put up 19 new buildings in 14 years, is currently raising $40 million for more. A rallying point for the Boston Irish since 1863, B.C. turns out 20% of all practicing lawyers in Massachusetts...
...posts abroad. President: the Very Rev. Edward B. Bunn, S.J. Most famous former student (law): Lyndon Johnson. Also in the "Catholic Ivy League," and considered by many Catholics to be academically superior to Georgetown, is Holy Cross, in Worcester, Mass. Forty percent of its freshmen still pursue the prized Jesuit A.B. degree. Holy Cross has 88 Jesuits and 60 laymen to teach 1,827 "wall-to-wall Irish" men students, retains compulsory daily Mass...
...York City's Jesuit-run Fordham University (10,750 students) opened on a farm in 1841, got engulfed by the spreading city. Among other things, Fordham is noted for its 51-year-old seismic station, the Jesuit quarterly Thought, and schools of law and social service. Headed by urbane, witty Father Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., Fordham is now building a $25 million campus at Manhattan's Lincoln Center...