Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, Ex-President of University of Notre Dame, Dies at 97

by Joseph Saraceno

28hes-v4Is this good news or bad news? I guess it’s to late to matter. The Vatican II Council was way ahead of him..

The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, the strong-minded former president of the University of Notre Dame who stood up to both the White House and the Vatican as he transformed Catholic higher education in America and raised a powerful moral voice in national affairs, died late Thursday in South Bend, Ind. He was 97. MORE