Cardinal Dulles to Catholic Colleges: Be Truly Catholic

Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J., calling on Catholic colleges and universities to stop being on the defensive about their Catholicity. He said, "The time has come for them to regain their confidence and proudly proclaim the faith that animates them."

"Cardinal Dulles to Catholic Colleges: Be Truly Catholic," by Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Catholic Register (December, 2001):

Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J., speaking at the Cardinal Newman Society for the Preservation of Catholic Higher Education's annual conference in Washington, D.C., last month [Nov 2001], called on Catholic colleges and universities to stop being on the defensive about their Catholicity. "The time has come for them to regain their confidence and proudly proclaim the faith that animates them," he said. "Shifting the burden of proof to the secular institutions, they should challenge the other universities to defend themselves and to show how it is possible to find and transmit the fullness of truth if they neglect or marginalize humanistic, philosophical and theological studies."

Register correspondent Kathryn Jean Lopez spoke with Cardinal Dulles, the Fordham University theologian who was named a cardinal last spring by Pope John Paul II. ... more.

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