Ross Douthat delivers the 2015 Erasmus Lecture:
Let’s begin with a story. It’s one I’ve heard many times; it’s one I’ve told more than a few times myself. It’s a story about the Catholic Church in the second half of the twentieth century, and it goes something like this.
Once, fifty years ago, there was an ecumenical council of the Church. Its goal was to reorient Catholicism away from its nineteenth-century fortress mentality, to open a new dialogue with the modern world, to look more deeply into the Catholic past in order to prepare for the Catholic future, and to usher in an era of evangelization and renewal.
This was not intended to be a revolutionary council, and nothing in its deliberations, documents, and reforms was meant to rewrite doctrine or Protestantize the faith. But the council’s sessions coincided with an era of social upheaval and cultural revolution in the West, and the hoped-for renewal was hijacked, in many cases, by those for whom renewal meant an accommodation to …More

Peg Meyer, long-time member of the President’s Council, learned she was dismissed after having shared concerns about the school’s direction with other council members and the Board of Trustees. Meyer and her husband, Larry, are among AMU’s earliest major supporters; in addition to substantial monetary gifts, they donated AMU’s signature fountains. However, Meyer earned the disapprobation of the AMU administration after sending an email to other members of the President’s Council and the Board of Trustees, including more than 60 letters from faculty, staff, students, parents and donors.
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