"Evangelical pruning" ahead at U.S. Catholic Colleges?

[flowomo]

‘Evangelical Pruning’ Ahead?

Ever since Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, educators at Roman Catholic colleges in the United States have been trying to figure out what his agenda would be for their institutions.

In a speech at the University of Notre Dame Monday, a senior Vatican official.... Archbishop Michael Miller, secretary of the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education, told a packed audience at Notre Dame that the pope might favor “evangelical pruning,” rather than maintaining ties to institutions that have become too secular....

In his talk at Notre Dame, Archbishop Miller reviewed Pope Benedict’s writings (from prior to being elected to his current position) and stressed that he was predicting actions based on that review, and that nothing was certain. Experts on the Vatican... agreed that when a top Vatican official gives a talk about Catholic higher education at an institution as significant as Notre Dame, his words matter....

The archbishop told the Notre Dame audience that the pope had a choice between “evangelical pruning” or being patient that institutions that have become too secular would reform themselves. The Observer quoted Archbishop Miller as saying that the patient approach was “less than ideal” and that the pope “appears to be more inclined to avoid scandal and lead a path of evangelical pruning, but we don’t know.”

http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/11/03/catholic

[Coastie for Truth]

1. We'll take you

Or --

[flowomo]

2. so, who's in trouble? ND? BC? GTown?

anybody know of a Catholic U gone bad?