College Catholics

...Similarly, a summer program their own to participate at Mass...

...THEY ALL and found in it a confutation of the popBut faith is not a "spiritual science...

...Alexander F. C. Webster looks at the Russian Orthodox Church, the Romanian Orthodox Church, and the much smaller but vocal Orthodox groups in the United States...

...so in devotional students on college campuses: more than Catholicism: the more truths you accept, FOR MASS three-fifths of the respondents described the better...

...WHO DOES cial justice, sexual morality, personal But that leaves open the question about spirituality, etc...

...It also needs gadflies selves...

...Well, first of all, Dennis M. Doyle ministers is to use the parish as a frame the Catholic college's responsibility for its of reference, not in a mechanical way but Catholic students goes far beyond that of MINISTRY: Lay Ministry in the Roman as a reality check on a ministry that can a Newman chaplain's...

...comments to Hunt, "the largest voluntary, get a generation often wary of making life There's no going back to the fifties, but not-for-credit gathering of students that decisions and commitments...

...The world of business and politics they're pre- some secondhand knowledge of other pope stresses that the special mission of sumably preparing to enter...

...In this unprecedented analysis, Fr...

...it is Paulist Press, $9.95, 172 pp...

...It needs Hunt sees the Mass as central not only as good parenting: attentiveness, patience, much more nurturing within and beyond theologically but also psychologically and and good judgment...

...terial" but with the end "product" of duction of faith facts to a minimum...

...viding a campus ministry program which Kenan B. Osborne, O.F.M...

...ble that can inhibit as well as promote lege (or university) provides the framework their maturing: good liturgies, retreats, for the students' whole experience on and spiritual counseling can channel their campus: from admission to curriculum, ome of my graduate stuinevitable introspection toward contem- from student life to volunteer work...

...and for the student but a forum for faculty in- In Ministry, Kenan Osborne offers an 26: 10 September 1993 Commonweal...

...Indeed, one of the several useful sug- and whose fate Ken Woodward lamentgestions he makes to his fellow campus ed...

...virtue of attempted honesty...

...than their faith commitment, but also a re- orders...

...dents, most of whom are plation that establishes a personal relation- Is Catholic intellectual life alive and well training for lay ministries, ship with God, but they need as well to on such campuses in the way Woodward have felt confused and dehear the gospel's challenge to change the recalls from Notre Dame in the fifties...

...Woodward focused on Catholic three such secular campuses, most rether faith or un-faith...

...Ministering to a revival of interest in the Catholic inteltakes place on a regular basis...

...D high culture...

...These are contrasting views, to the vanishing point-it is an attempt to COLLEGE CATHOLICS: A New but not contradictory ones, since Woodrecapture the core structure of belief in sin Counter-Culture ward's complaint is not with the "raw maand salvation...

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...in addition to pro- Catholic Church otherwise become rarified and precious...

...Lay people derive their mission The refreshing realism of that sugges- alization that faculty members, not al- in the world directly from Christ, but tion pervades the rest of the book...

...Just as ways Catholics, are teaching courses in the when they perform ministries within the Hunt resists the prevailing wisdom that social and hard sciences as well as the hu- church they are assisting the hierarchy in college students are confirmed secularists, manities that deal with Catholic themes a sphere that is not properly their own...

...ward and Michael Hunt offered lains, like Hunt himself, at secular uniI have said that Beeching has the great contrasting views on the state of versities...

...But the trou- Catholic students in higher edu- Based on eighteen years' experience at ble is knowing how to be honest about ei- cation...

...ular notion that secularism or religious inIn physics the more facts we know SHOW UP difference is the regnant attitude among about atoms, the better...

...That world (mainly Jesuit) schools, I'd say that the lay people is not in the church but in the includes parishes very different from col- general level of academic life is probably world...

...That sort of faith nual UCLA survey of college freshmen is a supernatural add on to natural science...

...Indeed, Hunt's final making sure that we understand the "gram- point about a college-aged audience remar of faith" before we utter its "truths...

...them effectively requires the same virtues lectual tradition is underway...

...Rahner's effort is not a re- Michael J. Hunt, C.S.P...

...pressed upon reading John world beyond themselves, the larger Based on a dozen years at Georgetown and Paul II's Christifideles laici (1989...

...Reading the many the classroom on Catholic campuses, as even sociologically to Catholic identity, stories in Michael Hunt's book and meet- well as within and beyond the chapel at and he gets this from the students them- ing a couple of students who have worked secular universities...

...Surely, students who became involved in the there's more to it than that, and Hunt me- Newman Center at Tufts are onto a good thodically covers all the other bases (so- thing...

...He warns also parish communities, but parishes need to a Catholic Studies program as part of the of the danger of "a `clericalization' of the adapt as well if they want to draw the thou- curriculum...

...Students are looking for adult not only a coherent intellectual discipline pulling the rug out from under them...

...Combine that with ly Catholic interests had its first session make up, as a non-Catholic colleague a multibillion-dollar youth culture and you at Fairfield University this past June...

...The latter represents in part lay faithful and the risk of creating, in resands of enthusiastic young adults for an admission that faculty are being hired ality, an ecclesial structure of parallel serwhom their college years have indeed for their specialized knowledge rather vice to that founded on the sacrament of been formative of their Catholic faith...

...What of the latter...

...Beeching worries schools and lamented the general decline cently at Tufts, Michael Hunt has written about a revisionist church following him of liberal arts education, as well as the spe- his own largely anecdotal account of rein his unbelief like "the hound of heav- cific failure of Catholic colleges and uni- ligion on campus, and, like his reading of en...

...role models, not overaged adolescents...

...Amen...

...A he warns against the temptation to accept and issues...

...As one woman tells him, stopping with him lead me to suspect that he pos- like Ken Woodward and pastors like "being" a Catholic for her meant stopping sesses those virtues and that the Catholic Michael Hunt...

...His book is a pleasure to read...

...College students live in a four-year bub- often includes resident chaplains, the col- Paulist Press, $29.95, 722 pp...

...Catholic colleges...

...er group who attend Catholic colleges WORK...

...I couldn't even defect properly...

...number of my graduate students (though rather than challenge the current zeitgeist Consolidating such efforts will provide certainly not all) feel that the pope is on campus...

...ceptive rather than hostile to a religious (A point I tried to make in my review of n Commonweal's education issue message raises the stakes both for Catholic The Catechism of the Catholic Faith in of April 9, 1993, Kenneth Wood- higher education and for Newman chapCommonweal, May 7, 1993...

...He expertly mines the primary sources to reveal a story of both political collaboration and moral courage, of ideological compromise and spiritual conviction, of faithless betrayal of the Church and selfless fidelity to its moral tradition...

...0-89633-169-5 Available at bookstores or through University Press of America, 1-800-462-6420 ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER 1015 Fifteenth Street NW  Washington, DC 20005 Commonweal 10 September 1993: 25 book is a chapel filled on a Sunday night many of them come bearing the wounds of terested in the rich Catholic tradition to with several hundred students coming on a society that has forced them to "grow up" share ideas...

...What per- far more rapidly than earlier generations: called Collegium for advanced graduate centage of the Catholic population at Tufts broken homes, addictions, promiscuity, students and young faculty with similarthis represents is not indicated, but it does phony sophistication...

...The central image of the THE PRICE OF PROPHECY Orthodox Churches on Peace, Freedom, and Security Alexander F C. Webster Foreword by George Huntston Williams As Eastern Europe struggles to emerge from its Communist past, the public moral witness of its Orthodox Churches has assumed a special importance to Americans seeking a truly just world order...

...Webster has a vigorous and jargon free style...

...0 going to Mass on a regular basis...

...Wisely, Hunt insists on more sophisticated (less parochial, more coming too interested in inner church mata two-way conversation: graduates need rigorous), and that there is a growing in- ters to the neglect of their involvements to make an effort to find and join vital terest among some students and faculty for in family, work, and society...

...He cautions against lay people belege chaplaincies...

...i "It is time for a new dialogue [between the Orthodox Church and Protestantism], and it would be hard to imagine a better starting point than this book...

...but common worship the Catholics at Tufts and elsewhere who THE CHURCH'S remains a touchstone for his ministry, as don't get involved as well as the even largit does for parish life...

...Minimal Catholicism" as themselves as either Roman Catholics Beeching regards it is not so much a dras- (30.5 percent) or born-again Christians tic reduction in the number of truths held John B. Breslin (31.7 percent...

...Hunt took off from the an- are concerned...

...Yet how many Americans know what these vast and ancient Christian Churches stand for, especially on crucial issues of freedom and human rights, war and peace, and national security...

...He versities to convey to their students the the UCLA survey, it is generally upbeat concludes that one may need "a grace for intellectual depth and breadth of Catholic on the subject, especially where Catholics disbelief...