Is there a real Catholic presence at ND?

aurorad12345
Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:14:15 +0000

My D says she doesn’t know if she believes in God. She’s 16 and that can happen at 16. She’s a good kid, honest, ethical, proper, but she’s starting to think for herself and this is one of the things she is questioning.

I’m pretty casual about it. God will deal with her, as He does everyone. I myself didn’t really start to believe in God until about 5 years ago. God decided to intervene and I had to make a decision. Up to that point I had been pretty wishy-washy.

What do current students think about whether there is much of a Catholic environment on campus? A regulation, by the book, Catholic presence? A la Baltimore catechism type environment of sorts in some places on campus? I’m not foolish enough to think that the entire place would be like this, but perhaps the theology classes talk about Papal decisions, etc.?