Fighting Irish? Fighting? Really?
Alumni have often complained to us that, in its prominent football game “What Would You Fight For” videos, Notre Dame always seems to fight for the same good things that others (especially its “preferred peers”) do too, but never for something Catholic that cuts against the grain of secular culture.
They are right. This is another instance of how Notre Dame’s drive to be thought the equal of the nation’s top secular universities threatens its Catholic identity.
They must protect their standing — and not the one achieved by the Four Horsemen of today.
Blithe Spirit 