Law and Spirit in the Contemporary Catholic University

¹ Gallin, Alice O.S.U., ed., American Catholic Higher Education: Essential Documents, 1967-1990 (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992), xii + 448 pages. $29.95 (paper $19.95); and Langan, John P. S.J., ed., Catholic Universities in Church and Society: A Dialogue on “Ex corde Ecclesiae” (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1993), ix + 261 pages. $14.95 (paper).

² Hesburgh, Theodore M. with Reedy, Jerry, God, Country, Notre Dame: The Autobiography of Theodore M. Hesburgh (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1990), 227ff.

³ Ibid., 230.

⁴ Gleason, Philip, Keeping the Faith: American Catholicism Past and Present (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1987), 139.

⁵ This theme is also ably explored in Schwehn, Mark, Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

⁶ Section 5, “The Catholic University as the Critical Reflective Intelligence of the Church” (Gallin, , ed., Essential Documents, 9).

⁷ “Response to Proposed Ordinances of the Committee on Education of the NCCB on Ex Corde Ecclesiae" (10 pages), November 29, 1993.