WOF 429: Is There a Catholic Antidote to the Crisis in Higher Education?

According to Fortune magazine, overall undergraduate enrollment experienced the steepest rate of decline on record from 2019 to 2022, and it has only worsened since then. There are several explanations, but one cause is entirely self-imposed: most universities and colleges have now replaced education with ideology, subverting the search for truth with political indoctrination. Today, we discuss the ideological takeover of higher education and how the Catholic conception of the university can help provide an antidote.

A listener asks, if priests are meant to represent Jesus, are nuns supposed to represent Mary?

Links

• "Ivy League Presidents and the Collapse of Moral Reasoning" by Bishop Barron
• Statistic on men in 4-year schools: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/12/18/fewer-young-men-are-in-college-especially-at-4-year-schools/
• Learn more about the Word on Fire Institute: Institute.WordonFire.org

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