Can one Jesuit save our Marxist, secular, and broken higher education system?

We are, Taylor wrote, “specialists without spirit, hedonists without heart.” Our schools have lost what Taylor calls “fullness,” which is a grace-filled feeling of spirituality and purpose. Such feelings come naturally to human beings, and the dour secularization and drab wokeness of the modern university kill off what was once nurtured. Without spiritual vision, we become our own boring, awful gods.

In Jesuit Higher Education in a Secular Age, Hendrickson, a Jesuit himself and the president of Creighton University, offers three things to help restore Taylor’s “fullness.” They are “study, solidarity, and grace.” …

University education once helped lay the groundwork for these moments of engagement with the world. Opening our eyes to it once meant practicing the other two steps in Hendrickson’s plan: study and solidarity.

[One normally wouldn’t think of the Jesuits first in any attempt to reverse “Marxist, secular” education, but Creighton is a very good example of how that may succeed. — Ed]