In my last post (to which this one is a sequel: if you haven’t read it, begin here) I quoted the mission statement of the Cardinal Newman Society of Virginia, founded in 1993, with the intention “to help renew and strengthen Catholic identity in Catholic higher education… by assisting and supporting education that is faithful to the teaching and tradition of the Catholic Church” But, I asked, can they possibly win? Have they, in fact, had any success in persuading the authorities of any officially Catholic university to “disinvite” a speaker with anti-Catholic beliefs it was intending to honour? This was, I said, a real question: if they have been successful in this way, I’m at least partly wrong. But, I continued, I am pessimistic about this. Not about the renewal of the Church herself: that is already happening. But in the case of universities like Georgetown, has not the whole process of secularisation gone too far? Well, I asked the question, and I have had an answer direct from the Society: so the least I can do (having gloomily cast doubt on the possibility of doing anything) is to pass it on: