text: I am sure, archangel, there is sin there-- as it is everywhere; indeed, there is no point trying to refine sin. It is what it is. We all sin and are sinners. But there is also grace there, an abundance of it in good reform-minded lay people, Holy Cross priests and seminarians trying  live out the school's mission. 
  
  Emerson reminds us that we cannot get a shock from something unless we have an electric affinity for that which shocks us. This is especially true of all of us -- in a kind of Catholic kinship, as it were -- when we take the limits (or frontiers, or peripheries ) of our own field of vision for the limits (or frontiers, peripheries) of our neighbors. Hopefully your affinity for shock at ND, doesn't, among other things, rob you of ND's broader intellectual, spiritual and moral vision, especially in behalf of Hispanic Catholics, and so many, many other folks from all backgrounds and parts of the world who have benefited from the extra-ordinary things done at that institution.