05-13-2011, 05:50 PM
August West wrote:
[quote=cbelt3]
Catholic schools and Universities employe lay persons who are not required to be of the Catholic faith, and are not subject to religious doctrine. They may be subject to a higher religious based moral standard, but that's on a contractual basis within the limits of the law. (My father was a professor at a Catholic University. One of his best friends and colleagues at the school was Jewish. And divorced twice. )
This may be the theoretical ideal, but it is not always the practice. I know people who have had the opposite treatment of your father's friend.
It really depends on the university. Some Catholic universities (especially Jesuit ones) have a long tradition of supporting academic freedom and diversity within the constraints of the Magisterium.
Others, like say Franciscan University in Steubenville...not so much.