The Washington Post's Magazine this weekend has a profile of Pat McGuire, who has been President of Trinity College for twenty years. As the article recalls, at an event in 2007, Post chairman Donald Graham said of McGuire: "How often can you say of a [university] president: 'Without her, that college probably wouldn't be there at all'?" The article shows what determination, hands-on management, and faith can achieve, turning a school that was headed to extinction around. I think it is especially noteworthy that McGuire saved Trinity by recognizing that it had to reconnect with its founding purpose - helping those without access to education gain an education - but that this meant something different in the 21st century from what it meant in the late 19th century, that to preserve the tradition, the school had to change. Read the article, and be sure to share with any high school age young women you know.
Washington Post Profiles Trinity College President
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"Yet, publicly, she is outspoken - lashing out last May in a commencement address at the "religious vigilantism" of fellow Catholics who had tried to disrupt President Obama's speech at Notre Dame".
"McGuire earns $202,00".
No habit. No community. Are we surprised ?
Maria.... I live alone, am in my 50s, have no habit and no community. I am a lay person. As far as I can tell Pat McGuire is a lay president.
Margaret
Clearly, Ms McGuire is not a vowed religious. Hence Maria Byrd's comments are sins of calumny. Malevolent sins against charity are a feature of so many US Catholics determined to defame their own President and any reasonable Catholics who support his overall agenda. Where were there when Bush was destroying innocent life in Iraq? The great John Paul 11 would be appalled at them!
It is something all together different to criticize someone who has not made that same choice.
Please accept my very humble apology for what were, indeed, extremely pejorative remarks. So accustomed am I to seeing priests and nuns, without their collar or habit, in the world, living apart from community, that I made an error in judgement. The post was read late at night. I had it coming to me and I ask for your forgiveness.