When I read through the May issue of the Institute of Christ the King’s newsletter, I was very excited to see some evidence that the students at the University of Chicago realize just how blessed they are to be within a short distance of a parish and, indeed, of the North American headquarters of the Institute. Msgr. Michael Schmitz related in the newsletter that Fr. Andreas Hellman had given a talk to graduate students at the University of Chicago in connection with the film, The Passion of the Christ.

I haven’t yet been able to discover whether these students have any internet presence, what their numbers are, or whether they’re fully committed to having a good time (as we at Cornell understand that expression). I wasn’t surprised, though, to see that they are graduate students; notoroiously, I’m afraid, undergraduates are too busy studying and have more interest in cooperating with the local manifestation of liberal, heretical Catholicism in the chaplaincy than in “speaking truth to power” and trying to find something better. Yet it should be easier for the undergraduates at the University of Chicago: while we here at Cornell, for example, had to take those to whom we were introducing the old Mass two hours from Ithaca, they have the Institute a few blocks away.