text: Regarding: "Sheridan quoted former CUA President Bishop David O'Connell as saying, "I would argue there is more academic freedom at a Catholic university than at a secular university.""
  - This is a good baseline for determining if the university is catholic: is there academic freedom, is there anything inhibiting it  at a catholic university?
  - So, if a university (professors, staff, students, and alumni) are aware that academic freedom is being attacked, or worse, has decamped from the university, then that university is not catholic.
  - With this in mind one may recall that the stance of Bishop John (D'arcy), formerly of Fort Wayne - South Bend (RIP) as an attack on academic freedom (plays, speakers, etc... he expected that as bishop he would have to vet these people and events) which in the end had little effect on Univ of ND and thus the Univ of ND is still an academy where intellectual freedom thrives in the environment of catholic faith.