{"id":12015,"date":"2012-01-24T18:49:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T23:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=12015"},"modified":"2012-01-24T18:49:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T23:49:05","slug":"georgetown-prof-quits-blasts-universitys-lack-of-catholic-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/01\/georgetown-prof-quits-blasts-universitys-lack-of-catholic-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgetown Prof. Quits, Blasts University\u2019s Lack of Catholic Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Patrick Deneen,Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University,\u00a0 had some stinging criticism of the Jesuit university, saying that Georgetown \u201cincreasingly and inevitably remakes itself in the image of its secular peers, ones that have no internal standard of what a university is for other than the aspiration of prestige for the sake of prestige, its ranking rather than its commitment to Truth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He has been hired by Notre Dame to teach there. I guess he is working his way up to a fully Catholic university.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deneen said he\u2019s not going to Notre Dame with blinders on. \u201dI don\u2019t doubt that there will be many battles at Our Lady\u2019s University,\u201d he wrote. \u201dBut, there are at least some comrades-in-arms to share in the effort.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah good to see he is going there with no false assumptions and the right attitude and he will certainly find comrades-in-arms there.  Though it is too bad that there will be one less authentically Catholic voice at Georgetown.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deneen said Notre Dame hired him because they regard him as \u201csomeone who can be a significant contributor to its mission and identity, particularly the Catholic identity of the institution.\u201d He said such considerations are not typically a criterion for hiring at Georgetown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that is an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org\/2012\/01\/24\/georgetown-prof-quits-blasts-universitys-lack-of-catholic-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Deneen,Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University,\u00a0 had some stinging criticism of the Jesuit university, saying that Georgetown \u201cincreasingly and inevitably remakes itself in the image of its secular&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12016,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions\/12016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}