Theodore Hesburgh, longtime Notre Dame president, dies at 97
Theodore Hesburgh, the longtime president of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, died February 26 at age 97.
For more than 50 years, he engaged issues such as civil rights, nuclear weapons, and abortion.
The National Catholic Reporter wrote that in 1968 he said, “Theology must be free, for it will be accepted as a true university discipline only if operates under the same kind of freedom and autonomy as do other disciplines.”
