Hey Patrick Coffin here, I hope you're having a great COVID-19 lockdown experience.

I hope it's getting better in light of the great things around the corner.

I want to talk about one of the most common places on earth to lose your Catholic

faith and that is Catholic universities or colleges. Yes there are some exceptions

and you can read about them in the Cardinal Newman Guide to choosing a Catholic College in the link below.

But most Catholic colleges and universities are so envious of Ivy League places like Yale and Princeton

and Harvard that from the late 60s onward they've totally

cut themselves off from the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, or almost totally.

In a July weekend in 1967, a group of liberal Catholic University professors and administrators met at Landelakes, Wisconsin,

and they produced a document that's essentially the divorce proceedings of the legal and moral relationship

between the teaching church and the teaching institution known as the

Catholic University. The main player behind that statement was Father Ted

Hesburgh, the late longtime

president of Notre Dame University. Another high-profile signatory was then

Father Theodore McCarick, now known as Uncle Ted, the molester, the highest-ranking homosexual

predator priest in Catholic Church history. Significantly, another

signatory of the Land O'Lakes statement was a guy called John Coagley, a leftist scholar representing the center for the study of democratic institutions.

It's not even quite clear what he was doing there at all, except that he was a celebrated

intellectual, as Flannery O'Connor would put it.

Coghley had been religion editor of the New York Times and was a ghost writer of John F. Kennedy's infamous 1960 speech to Houston Baptists in which he basically promised to be a bad Catholic

and to never violate the sacred dogma of the separation of church and state.

Mr. Coghley later dissented from Humana-Vite and ended up becoming an Episcopalee.

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