We’ve all seen self-deception of this kind on display in the reaction of Catholic educators to last Friday’s address by Pope Benedict. Having effectively divorced themselves from the Church with the 1967 Land O’ Lakes Statement, U.S. Catholic universities are obliged to explain to confused and wounded parties, most notably donors and alumni, how it is that — while they may provide The Vagina Monologues for their students but no course in Saint Augustine — they love the Catholic Church more than even their founders did.
–Paul Mankowski, in Philip F. Lawler, ed., Diogenes Unveiled: A Paul Mankowslki Collection, 124
