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²⁰ Blantz, Thomas E. C.S.C., George N. Shuster: On the Side of Truth (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993), 102.Google Scholar The Emerson quotation is from The Conduct of Life (Boston, 1860), 201.Google Scholar

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²² I could not find a proper citation to Scharper for this, hence, my tentative attribution, which is based on personal recollection.

²³ Greeley, Andrew M. and Rossi, Peter H., The Education of Catholic Americans (Chicago: Aldine, 1966), 16.Google Scholar The Commonweal sample, from which clergy and religious readers were eliminated, showed that almost three fourths had attended Catholic colleges or universities, and over one third attended Mass more than once a week. Professor Reher and Professor Shuell have invited “a sophisticated sociological analysis of the character and extent of its [Commonweal's] influence on American Catholic thinking over the past fifty years.” Executing such a study would, I believe, be quite difficult. I note that Jedin, Herbert J., ed., History of the Church, vol. 3: The Church in the Modern World, new abridged edition (New York: Crossroad, 1993)Google Scholar calls America and Commonweal the “two most important” opinion-forming Catholic publications in the United States (1064).

²⁴ See Komonchak, Joseph A., “The Catholic University in the Church” in Langan, John P. S.J., ed., Catholic Universities in Church and Society: A Dialogue on Ex Corde Ecclesiae (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1993), 35-53, esp. 51–53Google Scholar, for “a perhaps useful analogy” between a Catholic university and a lay Catholic journal of opinion, Commonweal.