“We hide the word ‘Catholic’ from prospective students”

“We hide the word ‘Catholic’ from prospective students” February 17, 2015

 

Main entrance to Gonzaga University
On the campus of Gonzaga University, in Spokane, Washington

 

Nearly three decades ago, when I first joined the faculty of Brigham Young University (after having fallen in love with the place as an undergraduate), I might well have read this article with a complacent (perhaps even somewhat superior) sense of “it can’t happen here”:

 

http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/02/we-hide-the-word-catholic-from-prospective-students

 

These days?  Not so much.

 

In recent years, I’ve come to regard such things as important warnings, deserving of serious attention.

 

(Thanks to Nathaniel Hancock for bringing this piece to my notice.)

 

 


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