Notre Dame's Merciless Conservative Critics

In March of 2009, after the University of Notre Dame invited President Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree, the late Ralph McInerny declared that Notre Dame had "forfeited its right to call itself a Catholic university." Writing at The Catholic Thing, the heralded Notre Dame professor even compared the University to Julian the Apostate, the fourth century Roman emperor who tried to restore paganism to Rome.