Father Hesburgh Land O Lakes
He snuck away to the notre dame retreat center in land o lakes.
Father hesburgh land o lakes. August 2 2018 newman society more than fifty years ago a group of prelates priests and cherry picked leaders in catholic higher education published the so called land o lakes statement. In patrick creadon s documentary hesburgh though long before that 1967 conference land o lakes appears as the setting for another momentous meeting that produced an important document. It was 49 years ago on july 20 23 when notre dame s father theodore hesburgh c s c gathered his peers to draft and sign the land o lakes statement a declaration of the independence of. Father hesburgh with st.
It was 50 years ago on july 20 23 when notre dame s father theodore hesburgh c s c gathered his peers to draft and sign the land o lakes statement a declaration of the independence of catholic universities from authority of whatever kind lay or clerical external to the academic community itself. Father hesburgh had the idea to relocate to land o lakes the university of notre dame s research site in wisconsin. In 1957 president dwight eisenhower made father hesburgh an inaugural member of the u s. During their time at land o lakes the civil rights commission members had time to relax fish and bond as a group.
John paul ii in 1967 hesburgh engineered a reorganization of the university that transferred control from the holy cross order to an independent lay religious body. This interaction helped contribute to their voting unanimously on 11 recommendations and five to one on the 12th. The most significant event for the church and the its relationship with catholic colleges and universities occurred in 1967 when father hesburgh assembled a group of catholic academic leaders at. Then father hesburgh called a wealthy notre dame donor and arranged for the whole commission to be flown to wisconsin to land o lakes the notre dame campgrounds with its dozens of lakes on.
That same year he chaired the watershed land o lakes conference where leading catholic university educators declared their independence from church authority.