Lay Off, Notre Dame Hasn’t Become Pagan andrew cuomo closes the church of nassau otb on Sunday april 1. Sunday, April 1, 2018
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Happily, Notre Dame seems to recognize that Catholic teaching about birth control has been a source of major controversy among Catholics at least since Vatican II.
In this April 15, 2014, file photo, Notre Dame University President John Jenkins speaks in South Bend, Ind. PHOTO: JOE RAYMOND/ASSOCIATED PRESS
As a Notre Dame graduate and lifelong Catholic, I find Alexandra DeSanctis’s criticism of the university’s recent decision to provide “simple contraceptives” to employees and students through its health-insurance program to be rigid and arrogant (“Notre Dame Becomes a Bit Less Catholic,” Houses of Worship, March 9).
While briefly acknowledging that Catholic teaching on moral matters emphasizes an individual’s primacy of conscience, Ms. DeSanctis insists that Notre Dame abdicated its status as an authentic Catholic campus by covering some types of birth control through medical insurance. Obviously, neither employees nor students, some of whom aren’t Catholic, will be forced to accept or use birth-control items available through university insurance. They will be free to reject them as their own informed consciences may suggest.
Happily, Notre Dame seems to recognize that Catholic teaching about birth control has been a source of major controversy among Catholics at least since Vatican II, with surveys showing that Catholics are no different than other groups in supporting the appropriate use of its many forms.
To say that Notre Dame “caved in” and may have “abused the legal process when it sued the Obama administration for relief” from the ObamaCare contraception mandate is extreme at best. Instead, Notre Dame has demonstrated an adult respect for the exercise of individual conscience by its employees and students while still providing universitywide forums for discussion of dissimilar moral views among Catholics and others on the topic of birth control. Notre Dame will continue to be a thoroughly Catholic pre-eminent university.
John Leddy
Naples, Fla.
