Abstract
John Courtney Murray hoped that the Catholic university could craft a new unity between the sacral and the secular in society, a unity fully respecting the integrity of both orders. To imagine the Catholic university as a place of enlarged dialogue characterized by healthy secularity, as a community explicitly committed to risking real conversation in pursuit of the wholeness of truth driven by the dynamism of catholicity, might be one way we today can learn from Murray's reflections on the telos of the Catholic university.
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