Comments on: Preachments of a Catholic Chair

By: The Art of Mary, Assange in a Manger, and sacrilege at the Smithsonian | Michael J. Altman

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:47:42 +0000

[...] regarding the “Contending Modernities” project at Notre Dame University. Reno responded here and then again here. It seems to me Reno is questioning who gets to decided what counts as Catholic [...]

By: More on Robert Orsi’s Anti-Catholicism » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:11:43 +0000

[...] Last week I drew attention to the way in which Robert Orsi, the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University, slammed the Catholic Church in an online tirade. [...]

By: Joe DeVet

Joe DeVet — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:06:07 +0000

There’s one benefit for having Catholic chairs in secular universities: it helped us get rid of a revisionist theologian from our local seminary. He now sits in one of those “chairs” over 1,000 miles away. “He won’t be missed.”

If justice is real, he was asked to leave by diligent authorities. (Well, that may be too much to hope for.)

By: WJ

WJ — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:12:54 +0000

Art Deco,

I think we might agree on something. Stop the presses.

By: WJ

WJ — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:07:28 +0000

Speaking of Catholic Chairs, etc.: is it true that Paul Griffiths (now at Duke) was hired for the Catholic Chair at U of I precisely because then dean Stanley Fish wanted to fill the chair with someone who was robustly orthodox as opposed to a somebody who was a kind of liberal accomodationist? I’ve heard this from a few people. If true, it only increases my (puzzled and never quite full) admiration for Fish.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:30:00 +0000

I second your conclusion: ugly.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 01:00:34 +0000

Time was, this country got along with an academic community proportionately a great deal smaller than is the case today, and we could again, with tertiary institutions devoted to vocational instruction. These characters are asking for it.

By: Truth Unites... and Divides

Truth Unites... and Divides — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:15:22 +0000

Orsi’s not even Catholic??

Well then, what is he?

By: Bob G

Bob G — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:27:57 +0000

A Notre Dame sponsored “research initiative”, eh?–at which no doubt only the left was welcome. No doubt all the participants agreed on what relation of religion to secular modernity they preferred. If the symposium were for real, rather than an excuse for some free lunches, Professor Reno would have been invited.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:57:23 +0000

John, given the Catholic community at Northwestern, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Ms. Nagle agrees wholeheartedly with Professor Orsi and requests more of the same from him.