Make no mistake about it: Holy Cross Father Wilson Miscamble loves the University of Notre Dame.
But Miscamble, who has taught at Notre Dame for more than 25 years, thinks the university is coming dangerously close to denying its own Catholic identity, at least in core areas such as research and teaching, and it’s doing so at a time when other Catholic universities are doing the same thing, Miscamble said in a March 11 lecture. Miscamble, a professor of history at Notre Dame, is the visiting 2014 Paluch Professor of Theology at Mundelein Seminary this year, and he shared his thoughts in the seminary’s Chester and Margaret Paluch Lecture titled “What is the Future for Notre Dame? The Battle for the Soul of America’s Foremost Catholic University.”
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