In 2017, the United States Postal Service will celebrate an enemy of the
authentic Catholic Faith on one of its postage stamps. Fr. Theodore M. Hesburgh
(1917-2015), a leading proponent of the liberal agenda and the one-time President of Notre Dame University, was not a model
Catholic educator. Not only was Fr. Hesburgh not a model Catholic educator, but
he was actually PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE in the Catholic community for almost
single-handedly being responsible for the elimination of orthodox Catholic
teaching in our once Catholic Universities, and destroying their commitment to
authentic Catholic education by fostering their conversion to a university
status, completely independent of Catholic control. Consider that:- Fr. Hesburgh was the leading promoter of the LAND O’LAKES document in 1967, which was the “Declaration of Independence” of Catholic Universities from Church authority at that time, and remains so to this day. As a result of Fr. Hesburgh’s influence, once proudly Catholic Universities, such as Notre Dame, Georgetown, Fordham, and Boston College have lost their essential Catholic character.
