Standing firm in a time of confusion
Lent has a way of stripping away distractions and reminding us of what truly matters.
The latest scandal at the University of Notre Dame is a prime example. Its leaders insisted on promoting Prof. Susan Ostermann, despite her abortion advocacy and the pleas of many bishops and faithful Catholics, including The Cardinal Newman Society.
Meanwhile, Georgetown University has a new law dean: Liz Magill, the disgraced former president of the University of Pennsylvania, who resigned after defending radical antisemitic protests on her campus. Her new boss is Georgetown President Eduardo Peñalver, who publicly stated, “I reject the Church’s teachings on homosexuality.”
These aren’t isolated incidents but symptoms of a culture that no longer knows what is true. Even most Catholic colleges are dens of confusion. Why should we be surprised, then, if 26 Catholic colleges in the last decade have announced their demise?
Your partnership in this mission matters so much! You are shining a light on scandal, but even more, you are guiding families to schools and colleges that truly form students in wisdom, virtue, and fidelity.
This Lent, I will be praying for you and your family in gratitude for your commitment to the reform of Catholic education. Together, we are not merely responding to scandal — you and I are building something faithful and enduring in its place, with God’s blessings!