Catholic Identity on the Secular Campus

In Commonweal, Maurice Reidy explores whether conservatives have captured the "Catholic" label for themselves at elite universities like Princeton:

According to Donald McCrabb, the former director of the Catholic Campus Ministry Association, many chaplains are adopting more traditional models of ministry. Williams College and Columbia University are some of the places where the voice of conservative Catholics is now dominant. Both for “cultural” and “ecclesial” reasons, McCrabb said, chaplains on non-Catholic campuses are increasingly taking something of a “ghetto approach.” “We do a little more circling of the wagons,” he said. “The benefit of that is that it helps people to form a strong identity; the disadvantage of that is that they’re unable to engage others.”

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