The University of Notre Dame is at it again. Last week, the conservative student newspaper, the Irish Rover, reported that after years of unsuccessful student-driven campaigns, Notre Dame is implementing an “optional” pornography filter on campus WiFi.
Despite being the premier Catholic university – and a university that ranks among the top in the country – Notre Dame has repeatedly avoided its responsibility to uphold basic Catholic doctrine when it conflicts inconveniently with popular secular opinion. The Notre Dame pornography debate is a particularly pathetic example. Now, once again, Notre Dame is championing a victory it did not own, and which it opposed every step of the way. University administrators should be ashamed of themselves – President Robert A Dowd CSC especially.
