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Article: Chair defends Catholic studies institute.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- April 16, 1999
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While quietly working to attract funders, a fledgling international institute focusing on Catholic studies got the kind of attention it didn't want and, according to its national leader, attention it didn't deserve. It came in the form of an attack from the right.
The institute, formed as the Catholic Institute for Advanced Studies, but recently renamed the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, is seeking $50 million for an endowment that would provide grants and scholarships for promoting research in the Catholic intellectual tradition.
As conceived by Marianist Fr. James L. Heft, chancellor of the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio, and chair of ...