The Marketing of Catholic Higher Ed

Chugging along like the present will continue forever, with no awareness of how dyscivic and dysgenic feminism is.

Rachel Lyter, #MountGrad2021, helped to establish Traditional Latin Mass on campus twice a week through her involvement in the Extraordinary Form Council. She also enjoyed mentoring first-year students as a resident assistant in Brute Hall. Congrats to Rachel! #MountGradMonday pic.twitter.com/GhXSYD1wcJ

— Mount St. Mary's U (@MSMU) July 12, 2021

Overselling Catholic Liberal Arts Education

CWR: “Our goal is to help our students find their vocation in life”

“Many people have been attracted by the education we offer, and we’ve grown as an institution,” says Christopher Ice, the third president of Ave Maria University. “This previous school year we had 1,100 students; this fall, we expect to have 1,200.”

Our goal is to help our students find their vocation in life. That could be a priest or religious, marriage or the single life, or it could be in a particular secular career. When our graduates leave, we want them to have a clear picture of where they want to go. They’re aided by an active spiritual life on campus, which includes three daily Masses, daily confession, perpetual Eucharistic adoration, praise and worship and rosary nights.

What do they know about vocation for the majority of Catholics other than wage slavery?

They Will Promote Their Education System to the End

Even as they capitulate to liberalism and feminism.

Cara Candall joins the podcast to discuss “A Vision of Hope: Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts.”https://t.co/enmB8f7ADF

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) June 7, 2021

Advertising... Feminism

Sale alert! Through June 30, enjoy 50% off all books in our series at @UNDPress, including pre-orders on print copies of "The Rights of Women" by @erikabachiochi and "The Way of Medicine" by Farr Curlin & Christopher Tollefsen. Use code 14CEC at https://t.co/gQ8SdrWHPn pic.twitter.com/b5bbB6dqUT

— de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture (@ND_EthicsCenter) June 1, 2021

It's Easy to Deal with a Symptom

Not with the cause of increased porn use. How about dealing with the loss of existential meaning for young men? And their lack of marriage prospects because of a toxic gynocentric culture?

Or, the bold leadership of Catholic institutions. We demonstrated leadership when we held classes in person all of this academic year. Let’s keep demonstrating to other institutions how it’s done. https://t.co/IfuI9ZAWEX

— Patrick Deneen (@PatrickDeneen) May 17, 2021

This Will Continue Right Up to the End of Catholic Higher Ed in the US

Friends, this past weekend, I was honored to deliver the commencement address to the graduating class at @stthomashouston. The entire point of a Catholic intellectual formation is to produce great souls.

Read my latest article at the Word on Fire website: https://t.co/irhzh4gTaV

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) May 11, 2021

CWR Dispatch: Stretching Out to Great Things: A Commencement Address for the University of St. Thomas

“When we follow these prompts of our culture today, we become cramped souls, what the medieval philosophers called pusillae animae. The entire point of a Catholic intellectual formation is to produce magnae animae (great souls).”

One of These Three Does Not Belong with the Others

What does Augustine think we should love in order to belong to the people who inhabit the City of God? Join us one week from today for a moderated conversation between Profs. Russell Hittinger, Michael Sherwin, O.P., and @jennfrey.https://t.co/sQOdU3FkF6 pic.twitter.com/xxaqW1zFXK

— Lumen Christi (@LC_Institute) April 24, 2021

A UD Event

Trying to remain relevant to the American Church...

The JP II Conference continues today feat. @josephecapizzi and @ccpecknold of @CatholicUniv, UD's own @gjpappin and Daniel Burns, and concluding reflections by Robert Koons of the Univ. of Texas.
Conference agenda, event locations, and livestream link: https://t.co/cB28lkDTtd pic.twitter.com/p45L7sqHDw

— University of Dallas (@UofDallas) April 16, 2021

But Faggioli Is the Wrong Academic to Be an Advocate for Roman Catholic Higher Education

“[T]here is a liberal inability to understand the shift occurring at the magisterial level in the Catholic Church, where the discourse is moving away from ‘pelvic issues’ and toward the crises brought on by globalization and corporatization.” https://t.co/gVRGrXrtmO

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) March 30, 2021

“I’m not indifferent to the threat that ecclesiastical tyranny presents to Catholic intellectual life. But it would be an illusion to think that Catholicism can survive, much less thrive, if we disregard the fate of Catholic academic institutions & the place of theology....”

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) March 30, 2021

Hitching Their Wagon to a Lame Horse

Roman Catholics need to stop investing themselves and their fortunes in urban mass population centers. We are undergoing imperial collapse, and this is just malinvestment.

Go get 'em, Thomas W. Carroll. Classical education is the way forward. The Boston Archdiocese is leading/showing the way. Schools can be Catholic, Protestant, other faiths, interfaith, non-sectarian. The key: students critically engaging "the best that has been thought and said." https://t.co/TNvDmq9sbU

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) March 28, 2021

Another Meeting in Which They'll Be Confirmed in Their Blindness

What is a university? How should higher education answer challenges posed by COVID?

On February 9 at 2:00 p.m., join us for a conversation on the university between @CatholicPres John Garvey, IHE Director @josephecapizzi, Mark J. Clark, and @jennfrey: https://t.co/ETObIZc9Oo pic.twitter.com/0vfDBehgeW

— IHE (@HumanEcologyCUA) January 29, 2021

SSH Goes Mainstream

Vox Day.

Can we better understand monastics or those especially living an eremetical form of life as being sigmas? I suppose the normal hierarchy could be found where there is more of a monastic community. Monasticism then could be understood in such "sociological terms," though those who extol the perfection of living the evangelical vows would not be satisfied. But it would allow a place for continued development of our understanding of the "lay" Christian vocation.

Monastics leave the world because they reject its unwholesome spirit. But in leaving the world, they don’t abandon the human person. https://t.co/YaViC2mKlM

— OCN (@MyOCN) January 11, 2021

Meanwhile, in the AmChurch...

After a period of political gloom, I spent a few days with these outstanding young men: serious, curious, based, totally in love with the Lord and with Saint Josemaria.

Now I’m perfectly refreshed. pic.twitter.com/H50nmb8TFQ

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) January 29, 2021

Though our students were unable to travel to D.C. this year for the @March_for_Life, our @UDCFL joined the march in spirit. Last Saturday, over 75 of our groundhogs prayed together outside of an abortion clinic. We are so proud of our students and stand united in prayer today!💙 pic.twitter.com/8VpPUZtXIw

— University of Dallas (@UofDallas) January 29, 2021

The AmChurch continues to fail Roman Catholic men.

Liberal Education Will Fix Everything!

When you don't have political liberty, a liberal education really doesn't matter, especially if that liberal education is deemed to be in opposition to the reigning woke civic religion and therefore to be eliminated.

Priorities, people. Don't look to academics for leadership or solutions to our political crisis because they are stuck in the mindset of preserving their job and financial security. They are not really fremen.

Listen in while Andrew Seeley discusses the ongoing revival of Catholic schools through classical curriculums. https://t.co/qyu3u0id2H

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) January 12, 2021

Catholic Higher Education is not "Family-Friendly"

It is feminized.

Our Institute for Human Ecology family is growing: congratulations to IHE Graduate Fellow Morgan Whitmer and her husband Caleb Whitmer on the birth of their daughter, Alice Clementine, this past Christmas Eve!#ThisIsCatholicU pic.twitter.com/YMnJR2LGtX

— IHE (@HumanEcologyCUA) January 4, 2021

More great news from the holiday season: IHE Graduate Fellow Bridget Safranek announced her engagement to Philip Knuffke! Both are graduate students in the Catholic University of America School of Philosophy.#ThisIsCatholicU pic.twitter.com/ySWj5Js3Uf

— IHE (@HumanEcologyCUA) January 5, 2021

Let Catholic Higher Ed Burn

Academic "mutual admiration society."

There will be no honest grappling with race issues and identity politics, or the principles of political community, just PC platitudes about racism being bad, etc. Note that there is no session on "What We Owe to Men."

We just posted the full schedule for our Winter Conference (Jan 12–14)! Join us for 3 days of excellent conversation about what it means to “dwell together in unity” and pursue the common good. Details & free registration: https://t.co/4GWv5dJHBD #WinCon21 pic.twitter.com/y0n4pVc5F6

— de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture (@ND_EthicsCenter) January 4, 2021

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More Hustling of the Liberal Arts

More inflation of the liberal arts. "The liberal arts free the soul not only from oppression and dominating power structures, but for the good life." Not even Christ may free us from external oppression and unjust power structures, but Christ, and only Christ, frees us from sin. What else won't American liberal arts school do? Turn young males into men, because they have neither the ethos, faculty members, or the requisite understanding to do so. Indeed, virtually all, including conservative or Catholic ones, take pride in being egalitarian and co-ed. And so the majority of liberal arts schools will die out, along with other cultural institutions, and deservedly so as a Divine punishment, whether they realize it or not. (Those given charge of the schools will probably proclaim their innocence of any wrong-doing until the end.)

The liberal arts cultivate a way to respond to the world better. https://t.co/DIPDaPWHhl

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) December 4, 2020

Jessica Hooten Wilson

Chavagnes Still Exists

But for how much longer? Is formal schooling the best environment for training a young male into worship? What is the appropriate ritual for initiating a male into adulthood? (Neo-)Confucians would be most sympathetic to the approach taken by Catholic liberal educators. And should such an initiation ritual take place outside the tribe or community to which a young man belongs? Probably not.

Education and Devotion: A School of the Lord’s Service - Guest Article by Ferdi McDermott https://t.co/EBMTkpO5YK pic.twitter.com/1wezG6RHHM

— NLM (@NLMblog) December 3, 2020

NLM: Education and Devotion: A School of the Lord’s Service - Guest Article by Ferdi McDermott

Did He Leave Providence College in Worse Shape Than It Was in When He First Started?

Fr. Brian Shanley, O.P.

Well this is fascinating: Dominican priest named president of @StJohnsU in Queens, NY. https://t.co/odCLMWvra6

— Samuel J. Howard (@Jahaza) November 25, 2020

Interview with a Female Roman Catholic Academic

“Philosophy totally changed my life. In some ways I would really say it saved my life”. https://t.co/2YNlPBuiHa

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) November 12, 2020

Catholic Herald

A Winning Sex Ratio

4:1 for the MA students.

IHE Director of the M.A. Program in Human Rights William Saunders, J.D., organizes a weekly speaker for our M.A. students.

Last week, students heard from @ptrueman, President of @ncose and his colleagues. #HumanRights #MAprogram #CatholicU pic.twitter.com/6m3ehRMq35

— IHE (@HumanEcologyCUA) November 2, 2020