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...intellectuals, including two of the nation's top Jesuit theologians, Fathers Gustave Weigel and John Courtney Murray; a noted Benedictine liturgical scholar, Father Godfrey Diekmann; and one of the official theologians at the Vatican Council, Germany's Father Hans Küng. To Monsignor William J. McDonald, rector of Catholic University of America, giving a forum to these scholars might seem to place his school on the liberal side in debate at the council (now in adjournment until September)-and he did not want the school to be on any side...
...editor denounced C.U.'s "authoritarianism"; another labeled the university a "citadel of mediocrity." Snapped Bishop John K. Mussio of Steubenville, Ohio: "Legitimate controversy should not be sidestepped by a center of learning. Suppressing views is no service to truth." In a stiff letter to Rector...
Every Catholic Contributes. C.U. is the only "national pontifical university" in the U.S. As such, it is controlled ultimately by the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities. It is the only U.S. Catholic university whose rector must be approved by the Pope (the others are run by religious orders or individual dioceses). Every U.S. Catholic is supposed to contribute to its support via an annual collection in all churches (1962 gleaning...
...model of academic freedom-subject to neither "the hand of an order'' nor the pressure of a state legislature. Even in student rules, it is unusually liberal for a Catholic campus (no "lights out," no supervised study). Yet in recent years, notably under Irish-born Rector McDonald, who took over in 1957, the faculty has increasingly complained of academic timidity at the top. Items...
...Rector McDonald vetoed as "imprudent" a proposed C.U. symposium on evolution and Christian theology during the Darwin centennial in 1959-while similar symposiums were held at three other Catholic universities (Fordham, Duquesne, and Chicago's Loyola). ¶ Sociologist Father Raymond Plotvin was forced to withdraw from a major study of family planning in cooperation with Jesuit Georgetown University. Reason: McDonald refused to approve Plotvin's request for a Ford Foundation grant to study "family size preference of American Catholic college girls" because the subject was "too controversial...