When a feature story dominates the Sunday front page of The Washington Post, you know that editors there have given the subject quite a bit of thought — to say the least. In our management-intensive era of newspapering, this means that the concept of the story survived several high-level planning meetings and, thus, the editors almost certainly considered its content more than significant — it’s symbolic.
So I was interested when I saw the recent Post news feature about an Ohio community that, in recent years, I have visited several times. We are talking about Steubenville, Ohio, which conservative Catholics will know as the home of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a campus that once was fading away and is now a hub for new priests, nuns, brothers, etc., etc., etc. It’s the rare Christian campus that, after choosing the road toward modernism and progressive doctrine, reversed course back into orthodox doctrine and practice.
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