ABSTRACT
Many of those who had spent so many years championing the papal document simply gave up the struggle for a renewed faithfulness to the Catholic mission on their campuses. One of the most effective ways Catholic culture was disarmed on Catholic campuses was through attacking the legitimacy of authority within the Church—and, in many cases, denying the existence of truth itself. In many ways, the theoretical framework presented in The Secular Revolution helps us understand the culture wars that have continued to rage on Catholic campuses. The process of the secularization of Catholic colleges can be thought of as a kind of revolution because, like all revolutions, it fundamentally concerned questions of power and authority. If the secularization of Catholic higher education is simply a "natural" outcome of modernization, it achieves the status of an unavoidable and inevitable occurrence that we should have expected.
