August 21 - 7th Meeting
Further examine Catholic education in America (500 pp. reading).
Opening prayer and meditation: excerpts from then Josef Cardinal Ratzinger’s Good Friday meditations on the Stations of the Cross, 2004. (Full Text)
- Carlin, David, The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America, Manchester NH, Sophia Institute Press, 2003. Carlin, a Catholic layman, professor of sociology and of philosophy, and experienced politician, looks at the Catholic Church in the United States around mid-century from a sociological perspective.
- Excerpts from Burtchaell, Fr. James Tunstead CSC, The Dying of the Light: The disengagement of colleges and universities from their Christian churches, Grand Rapids MI and Cambridge UK, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998, chapter 6, “The Catholics,” pp. 557-742. Readings to be divided up as follows:
- On Boston College, a Jesuit university.
- On the College of New Rochelle, an Ursuline college.
- On Saint Mary’s College of California, a Christian Brothers college.