PRESIDENT'S PAGE Back to the Future Gerard V. Bradley 0 Timothee, depositum custodi, devitans prcifanas vocum novitates et oppositiones falsi nominis scientiae, quam quidam profltentes circafldem aberraverunt. Gratia vobiscum. 1 ad Timotheum 6 ere is the standing criticism of Ex CordeEcclesiae:itisa beeline for the fifties; backwards looking; pre-Vatican II. Indeed, "the fifties" functions as a four letter word for opponents of ECE. That is a telling symbol of a profound ingratitude towards Catholics among Tom Brokaw's "greatest generation": those faith-filled men and women Fellowship who came of age in the Depression'A.,~t WWII, returned home to blue collar salaries, on which theYA,IIIIifP a vast parochial school of Catholic system to educate their large fa Anyway, the criticism is e than that, it's the critics who are stuck in time. e sure, but the early seven- ties, the years just afte the colleges declared their Scholars independence fro iastical , and began to envy the Ivies. They can ne two pos: heir "progressive"vision, and backwards to the fifties. The fork ad has but two prongs: their path, and the path of retrograde, an II Catholics. It's either Quarterly bell bottoms or grey flannel suits: zzie and Harriet or the Love WINTER 2000 Boat. If thisis put on the table in ou, my advice is that you VOLUME 23, NUMBER 1 ask for new silverware. Even so, we do need to 100 Our children do face a world CONTENTS our parents could not have imagi children must claim a living from an economy where having tack, and being disciplined PRESIDENT'S PAGE: enough to get up on time each "fillnot secure a family wage, Backto the Future I as it did for our parents, and for ur generation. Our affluence OBITUARY 2 permits us to deliver that educatii children which neither our parents, nor we, needed. But let se a Catholic education for NEWS 2 the new millennium. ARTICLES: ECE is entirelyforward looki ope is not interested in a Will Ex Corde Really Be Implemented Catholic education which batten e hatches to preserve the in the United States? 3 future of the Church and of ways of the past. He says in ECE Structures of Evil-Structures of Good 7 the world is being played out as , de the twentieth century. William Carroll and Personalist History 15 There is only one culture: that oj man. And thanks to her Freedom in America vs. universities, the Church explores eries of humanity and of the Love in the Heartland 18 world, clarifYing them in light of "Catholic" Universities: The mysteries of cyberspace The truths entrusted to the care of the Church are not ne ths will light up the Independent or Nonsectarian? 27 challenges of cybers id the challenges AROUND THE CHURCH 30 of centuries gone by: the invention of the printing press, of steam FEATUREDREVIEW 32 power; of gunpowder, of money; the discovery of the ovum, and of BOOK REVIEWS 33 the atom; the rise of the nation state, of the United Nations, of space BOOKS RECEIVED 38 travel. A true Catholic education will give our children what they need BOARD OF DIRECTORS 39 to be leaven in the society they will inhabit. A Catholic education will put the truth to their times, a task for all seasons, for all ages. ffi EX CATHEDRA 40 ISSN 1084-3035 . L~~ OBITUARY Reverend Robert]. began to write a series of Latin growth into an international institu- textbooks that are still in print and tion. He then returned to Saint Henle, S.]., Dies that over the subsequent years Louis University, where he taught have sold more than a million in both the philosophy department and the School of Law. He became everend Robert J. Henle, copies. He was ordained a Roman the first incumbent of the chair of S.J., former president of Catholic priest in 1940, and received his doctorate from the R Georgetown University "Justice in American Society," and former academic vice presi- University of Toronto, where he established by the McDonnell dent of Saint Louis University, studied philosophy under such Foundation. He was honored by died on Thursday, January 20, renowned scholars asJacques the Italian and German govern- Maritain and Etienne Gilson. 2000 at the Jesuit infirmary resi- ments and by universities both in dence in Saint Louis. Father Henle taught at Saint the United States and abroad. He was an eminent Catholic Louis University for many years, With more than 200 articles and where he was also at various times philosopher in the United States almost a dozen books to his credit, for many years, a veteran teacher, superior of the younger Jesuits in in his late eighties he published a a prolific author, and an experi- studies, dean of the School of Phi- translation of St. Thomas Aquinas' enced and successful administra- losophy and Letters, university De Veritate,or On Truth, a fitting climax to a life dedicated to the tor. Born in 1909 in Muscatine, research administrator, dean of the Iowa, he entered the Society of Graduate School, and academic search for and furthering of such Jesus at Florissant, Missouri, in vice president. Between 1969 and truth. A last collection of essays and 1976 Fr. Henle was the President 1927. As a Jesuit seminarian, he papers was published this past year taught at the Saint Louis Univer- of Georgetown University in by the Saint Louis University Press under the title of The American sity High School from 1935 to Washington, D. c., where he Thomistic Revival. ffi --1937, during which time he oversaw many of the facets of its McInerny Honored in Festschrift r. Ralph M. McInerny, "McInerny and Ethics." The first O'Connell, professor emeritus of President Emeritus of session was moderated by John history at the University of Notre D the Fellowship of O'Callaghan of Creighton Uni- Dame, gave an unforgettable Catholic Scholars, was honored versity, and the participants were speech about his days with Ralph in a day long conference at the Alvin Plantiga of the University McInerny in the minor seminary. University of Notre Dame on of Notre Dame, Fr. David Burrell Dr. McInerny is Michael P. Saturday, December 4,1999. of the University of Notre Dame, Grace professor of medieval stud- The event coincided with the and Laura Garcia of Rutgers ies and director of the Jacques Notre Dame Press publication of University. The second session, Maritain Center at the University Recovering Nature: Essays in Natu- moderated by Thomas Hibbs of of Notre Dame. He has taught at ral Philosophy, Ethics and Meta- Boston College, featured Janet the university since 1955 and is physics in Honor of Ralph McInerny, Smith of the University of Dallas, former director of the Medieval edited by John O'Callaghan and David Solomon of the University Institute. He earned his doctorate Thomas Hibbs. of Notre Dame and John Haldane in philosophy at Laval University The conference was divided of the University of St. Andrews in Quebec. into two substantive panel in Glasgow. McInerny is currently the discussions on "McInerny and The day ended with a gala editor of the Fellowship of Catholic the Philosophy of Religion" and banquet, where Fr. Marvin Scholars Quarterly. FCS Quarterly. Winter 2000 ARTICLES Will Ex CordeEcclesiaeReally Be Implemented in the United States? by Kenneth D. Whitehead " Presidents of Catholic universities should be Catholics and must take the Oath of Fidelity (includ- t is heartening that the U.S. Catholic bishops, ing a Profession of Faith), as stipulated by Canon 833 at their national meeting in November 1999, of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. approved by such a large majority of 223 to " "To the extent possible the majority of the Board 31 an "Application" document for Pope John should be Catholics committed to the Church." I Paul II's 1990 apostolic exhortation on the " "The university should strive to recruit and ap- Catholic University Ex CordeEcclesiae("from the point Catholics as professors so that, to the extent heart of the Church"). This decision has been nearly possible, those committed to the witness of the faith a decade in the making, and has only come about will constitute a majority of the faculty." after numerous delays, and the overcoming of many " "Catholics who teach the theological disciplines obstacles, mostly thrown up by the leaders of Catho- in a Catholic university are required to have a manda- lic academia in the United States. tum granted by competent ecclesiasticalauthority" (the diocesan bishop), in accordance with Canon 812; Nevertheless, it is surely a giant stride that has "[they] have a corresponding duty to be faithful to the been taken with the enactment of this bishops' ECE Church's magisterium as the authoritative interpreter "Application" document, which requires, among of sacred Scripture and sacred Tradition." other things, that: " Catholic students have a right to receive from a university instruction in authentic Catholic doctrine and practice...Catholic teaching should have a place... in the various disciplines taught in the university..." Obviously, if and when all these requirements are implemented, a fundamental re-orientation will have been made away from the secularization that has in- creasingly characterized most Catholic higher educa- tion institutions over the last 30 years, and towards a re-Catholicization of our colleges and universities. But the question remains: will these (and other) provisions of the bishops' ECE Application docu- ment actually be implemented by all, or even many, of the 230-odd Catholic higher education institu- tions in the United States? What will happen to the institution that does not implement the document- or to the theologian who declines to seek the manda- tum? Does the bishops' vote signal the beginning of an end to the toleration of the heterodox teaching and aberrant practices on too many Catholic campuses that have obtained up to now? Even while voting in these new university norms and requirements, many key bishops went out of their way to indicate that perhaps not all that much really had been changed by the bishops' vote.