Out in California, a number of Catholic scholars and allies of theirs are drawing up plans for a new undergraduate college, which may be called The College of-St. Thomas More. Why yet another Catholic foundation, when many of those already existing are dubious about their own prospects, intellectual and financial?
An answer is offered by Dr. Ronald MacArthur, professor of philosophy at St. Mary’s College, one of the prime movers in this new undertaking. Secular institutions—and particularly those supported by the state—are gone goslings, he reasons, having degenerated into mere “service” establishments or intellectual cafeterias; most of them are hideously overgrown. Christian colleges -—or, more especially, Catholic colleges —have been much damaged by the modern climate of opinion and modern appetites; some are beyond restoration. Of the American Catholic college, he writes:
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