Notre Dame Students Go to War over ‘Woke’ Catholicism

It is a sad reality that, among students at the University of Notre Dame, it is becoming unacceptable to share Catholic Church teaching on matters of human identity and sexuality. A few weeks back, Notre Dame senior Mary Frances Myler — who serves as editor in chief of the Irish Rover, an independent student newspaper — published a column critiquing the ways in which the university has failed to apply the fullness of the Catholic tradition to its handling of gender-identity issues on campus.

The backlash among students was swift and predictable. Immediately, Notre Dame’s campus paper The Observer published a letter to the editor from one of Myler’s classmates expressing outrage at her column, and the paper issued its own editorial implicitly castigating Myler. Just this week, The Observer published a second letter from a student, chastising Myler in terms even more personally insulting than the first.

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Alexandra DeSanctis

Alexandra DeSanctis is a contributing writer at National Review.

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Carl R. Trueman

Carl R. Trueman is a professor of Biblical & Religious Studies at Grove City College.

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It is a sad reality that, among students at the University of Notre Dame, it is becoming unacceptable to share Catholic Church teaching on matters of human identity and sexuality. A few weeks back, Notre Dame senior Mary Frances Myler — who serves as editor in chief of the Irish Rover, an independent student newspaper — published a column critiquing the ways in which the university has failed to apply the fullness of the Catholic tradition to its handling of gender-identity issues on campus.

The backlash among students was swift and predictable. Immediately, Notre Dame’s campus paper The Observer published a letter to the editor from one of Myler’s classmates expressing outrage at her column, and the paper issued its own editorial implicitly castigating Myler. Just this week, The Observer published a second letter from a student, chastising Myler in terms even more personally insulting than the first.