One of the more controversial statements in the Land O'Lakes document is its assertion that "the Catholic university must have a true autonomy and academic freedom in the face of authority of whatever kind, lay or clerical, external to the academic community itself."—Mari Benevento  This helps explain the administration of The Catholic University of America being under censure from the American Association of University Professors since 1990 . . . for not giving a professor even a hearing before firing him.