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Article: Living the faith at Notre Dame. (the value of a Notre Dame Univ. education despite unreasonable polices and restrictions)(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- October 30, 1998
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On the path to the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes on the Notre Dame campus, there's a statue of Thomas Dooley, a Notre Dame graduate and a famous physician active in the care of refugees in Vietnam in the 1950s. He's portrayed holding two small children by the hand. Beneath the statue is a bronzed copy of a December 1960 letter he wrote from Hong Kong where he lay dying of cancer, which claimed his life the following month, the day after his 34th birthday. The letter reads:
"How I long for the grotto now. ... And I wonder, do the students ever truly appreciate what they have while they are there?"
Certainly many do not. They may never truly realize the ...