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Catholic college censors campus speaker.(NEWSWATCH)

Women in Higher Education

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Before the scheduled appearance of Pope Benedict XVI in April, presidents of the nation's Catholic colleges anticipated a stern lecture on adhering to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. But in his address to 200 presidents of Catholic colleges, he discussed the importance of education in the United States to the mission of the Church.

The Pope may not have harped on Ex corde Ecclesiae, the "apostolic constitution" tying a tight knot between the university and the Catholic Church, but he did emphasize the importance of Catholic educators sticking to their Catholic roots.

It got Catholic leaders to start thinking and acting. Presentation College SD had invited state senator Nancy Turbak Berry to speak at commencement. Days before the ceremony, it withdrew the invitation based on her ...

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