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Hello, listeners.

This is Rusty Reno at the editor's desk for our regular podcast with First

Things authors. And I have with me today, Jim Keating, Providence College. We're going to talk about

his article, Who Killed the Catholic University from the April 2020 issue?

Thanks for being on the podcast, Jim.

Oh, happy to be here.

So who?

You kind of begin with this Nietzsche echo evocation.

And of course, the madman says, we have killed God in that case. And you're suggesting

that all of us have somehow killed the Catholic University. How so? Well, those with power

killed it. The mad person, the person who has gone mad was the faithful Catholic intellectual who had put their career on the line in order to teach at a place which embodied the Catholic intellectual tradition and unity of faith in reason.

But when things went southward in the late

60s, they watched, they protested, but they had no power. And so it drove them mad. Part of the story I

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