Notre Dame's Core Curriculum Review | National Catholic Reporter

Notre Dame's Core Curriculum Review | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: When I was Loras College, one of the few diocesan liberal arts schools, we did not have Theology, we had Religious Studies and our department was considered quite liberal.  There was a Religion/Theology division and we had to take four courses from the division, the seminarians had a requirement for six philosphy, no theology, while pre-law students had to take ethics - which involved taking the intro course, which everyone seemed to take anyway.  The All College Honors course had a section on Philosophy, not theology and my doctoral program at an ostesibly Methodist American University had a doctoral seminar (P/F) on Epistomology.  I tested out of three religion courses (thanks to Catholic High School) and got out with only two courses, Ethics and the Intro.  Because College teaches you how to think and learn, I have picked up quite a bit of theology over the years, which is the point - learning by facing questions.  Having epistomology at a secular school added something that would not have been there in a religious one, the ability to learn other approaches and their validity without having a Catholic identity solution as the essential answer.  That was probably the most valuable part of my education in these disciplines.  Let truth win the day, even if it disagrees with the Magisterium.