Cardinal Burke Laments ‘Catholic in name only’ Universities

I know, a week late and a buck short. But in case you haven't seen this yet, here it is. I was a bit busy cause he was sitting right 50 feet in front of me.

In an address delivered at a Boston dinner for Thomas More College of Liberal Arts on December 4, Cardinal Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura at the Vatican, lauded Catholic universities which are faithful to their identity and criticized ones which have become “Catholic in name only,” according to Catholic News Agency.
CNA reports:

In a lengthy discussion of the nature of Catholic higher education, he said that a Catholic university faithful to its identity will help students give an account of their faith and help them resist “the secularist dictatorship which would exclude all religious discourse from the professions and from public life in general.”…
“A Catholic college or university at which Jesus Christ alive in His Church is not taught, encountered in the Sacred Liturgy and its extension through prayer and devotion, and followed in a life of virtue is not worthy of the name,” he told attendees.
Cardinal Burke lamented the fall of many American Catholic colleges and universities that have become “Catholic in name only.”…
The Catholic university is needed more than ever in a society “marked by a virulent secularism which threatens the integrity of every aspect of human endeavor and service,” he said.
“How tragic that the very secularism which the Catholic university should be helping its students to battle and overcome has entered into several Catholic universities, leading to the grievous compromise of their high mission,” he commented…
He questioned why students should be engaged in discussions about the ordination of women as priests when they already have little knowledge of the “consistent teaching” of the Holy Scriptures and Catholic Tradition on the priesthood…
In an e-mail to CNA, St. Thomas More College president William Fahey characterized Cardinal Burke’s speech as “a kind of authoritative gloss on Ex Corde Ecclesiae,” John Paul II’s encyclical on Catholic higher education.

Be sure to read the entirety of the Catholic News Agency report on Cardinal Burke’s address. 

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What this means?  Catholyc Colleges fade away, and the new Catholic College thrives and prosper.  I know why I didn't go to a Catholic College - cause their ain't none in Wisconsin.  It seems ridiculous to think that Steubenville could one day out-prestige Notre Dame*, but that might be exactly what happens.  Not in 10 or 20 years, but someday perhaps. 

*There are those trying to right the ship at ND but it's support for the most pro-abortion presidency ever was definitely a setback.