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Fr. Michael's achievement
A student recently described FUS to me as "a delightful, wonderful and fantastic swimming pool of God's grace and love that I am currently splashing around in."
It is, to be sure, an unusual description of college life, but I thought it beautifully apt for my alma mater.
It has been announced that Fr. Michael is retiring this summer, but it is marvelous to behold how he leaves behind him not only a pool of grace at FUS, but new springs popping up in unexpected places throughout the parched terrain of modern Catholic education . His vision for renewing, enlivening and deepening the faith of students is taking root in other schools now too, like Ave Maria College, where my husband and I and other alums now live and work, and where still more are coming--bringing with them what they have gratefully received. There is a marvelous sense that we are only just beginning to see the wonder of what God has done through Steubenville.
Eternal thanks to our dearly-beloved out-going president! (since there is no earthly measure for what we owe him.)
May God grant him a retirement as restful as his work has been fruitful!
By the same author:
• NFP, by itself, does not compromise the marriage vocation, (I,1)
• What is a 'real' Catholic education?, (I,2)
• Orthodox not paradox, (I,3)
• NFP and connaturality, (I,4)
• How does a university evangelize?, (I,4)
• Thomism and intellectual freedom, (I,5)
• Keeping our worship in step with 'what the Spirit is saying' to FUS, (I,7)
• Can charismatics and traditionalists peacefully coexist?, (II,1)
• The horror of polygamy and the persistence of chauvinistic theories in Catholic academia, (II,1)
• The challenge of the Concourse: discussion without (much) contention, (II,2)
• When old ideas are breaking up, (II,3)
• Why the polygamy problem is not as passe as it appears: Kathleen van Schaijik responds to her critics, (II,4)
• Why 'charismatic spirituality' belongs at the heart of our communal life, (II,9)
• What is the University Concourse?, (III,1)
• How not to help households, (III,1)
• Silence betokens ... What?, (III,3)
• The freedom of stricture, (III,4)
• What were households meant to be?, (III,5)
• Different degrees of authority, (III,5)
• Last words (for now), (III,6)
• A suggestion regarding Extraordinary Ministers, (III,6)
• Catholic teaching on capital punishment, (III,6)
• A final thought on the household issue, (III,6)
• What is our mission, really?, (III,6)
• What if Shakspere wasn't Shakespeare?, (III,6)
• Clinton's sorry legacy, (III,6)
• Evolution, (III,6)
• Intimidated? Please don't be., (III,6)
• A gift for the graduates of '98, (III,6)
• A point of policy, (III,6)
• A point of principle, (III,6)
• A word of thanks, (III,6)
• Love Never Leaves, (IV,1)
• Faith and Reason, (IV,2)
• A different perspective on the modesty question, (IV,5)
• Strangers to the world, (IV,6)
• Happy & sad, (IV,7)
• Oxford gaining on Shakspere, (IV,7)
• Of private and collegiate morality, (IV,7)
• Newman, education and context, (IV,7)
• Witnesses to Faith in the face of death, (IV,7)
• Viva the class of '99!, (IV,7)
• A prize winning physicist out of his depth, (IV,7)
• A positive psychology, (IV,7)
• How to become a leader, (IV,7)
• Campus politics, (IV,7)
• Thanksgiving, (IV,7)
• New face, same spirit, (V,1)
• The 'Stratford man' and the Shakespearean canon: no match at all, (V,3)
• Bringing the masses from starvation to full strength, (V,4)
• Branching out through Christus Magister, (V,6)
• Kathleen van Schaijik replies to John Doman on Shakespeare, (V,6)
• A Catholic critique of a current notion of courtship, (V,7)
• Fr. Michael's achievement, (V,8)
• Charity may be severe, (V,8)
• On the other side of the same coin, (V,8)
• Shakespeare debate update, (V,8)
• Beware of economic Puritanism, (V,8)
• What the education debate is and isn't about, (V,8)
• The Weimar Republicans, (V,8)
• Drawing out an analogy, (V,8)
• Dear Class of 2000, (V,8)
• How to support the Concourse by buying books, (V,8)
• Thanksgiving, (V,8)
• The evil of exorcising judgement, (VI,1)
• Jump Start, (VII,1)
• It's not the Vatican, it's the laity, (VII,1)
• Abusing NFP, (VII,1)
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