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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 288260, member: 780"]
Pretty much 100% RC's at ND. We have a lot of kids from our area that have been recruited by ND for lacrosse. They all report that part of the interview process is sitting down with a priest who kind of screens them.
 
You have to go to Georgetown to find a Catholic school with a large percentage of non-Catholics (30%).
 
Georgetown, in it's effort to be seen as an elite educational institution would sometimes like to forget it is also a Catholic school.
 
A few years ago there was a movement at Georgetown to remove the crucifixes from the classrooms because some felt that it was "unwelcoming" to non-Catholics or non-Christians. The school actually tried to do that until some alumni got word of it. There was an absolute furor over it. We aren't talking about just unhappiness here, we are talking "outrage" as in "If you do that we are never contributing another dime" outrage. Under the wilting pressure from alumni and others the University reversed itself.
 
I don't think religion is a non-issue. It's the large group of people that support ND because they see it connected to their heritage. It's "them" versus "us".
 
After growing up in NJ, I can tell you there were whole families in our town that brought into the ND thing. And they were --- not surprisingly --- very large families. These people lived and died ND football. And none of them had ever gone to Notre Dame or even been to Indiana. The Chicago are RCs I have met are even more committed. Some of them have been to Indiana.
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