Truth, Freedom, and the Catholic University

Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology

• On the Land O’Lakes Statement
  • The original statement: “Statement on the Nature of the Contemporary Catholic University”
  • Fr. John Jenkins, CSC, “The document that changed Catholic education forever”
  • Dr. Michael McLean, “‘Academic Freedom’ and the Tyranny of the Modern College Campus”
  • Optionally, see also §III of “A Porposal for the Fulfillment of Catholic Liberal Education” the founding document of Thomas Aquinas College
  • Patrick Reilly, “The Land O’ Lakes Statement Has Caused Devastation For 49 Years”
• Church Documents
  • Pope Leo XIII, Libertas
  • Vatican II: Gravissimum Educationis
  • Optionally, see Lamb & Levering, eds. The Reception of Vatican II, ch. 15, Paige E. Hochschild’s commentary (file attached)
  • Pope St. John Paul II: Ex Corde Ecclesiae
  • Pope Benedict XVI: La Sapienza University speech of 2008
    • This speech was cancelled due to faculty protests, evidently over use of quote in a 90’s speech of Ratzinger’s quoting Feyerabend contra Galileo here