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expositions-1947	none	The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and American Catholic Higher Education	2015	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3556	159	47	John Tracy Ellis published a scathing critique of Catholic intellectual life in America.1 While he does acknowledge the profoundly negative consequences of a deeply ingrained anti-Catholic prejudice in American intellectual culture, which when not downright hostile was at least “aloof and unfriendly to Catholic thought,” he argues that it is not primarily this bias that accounts for the poverty of Catholic intellectual thought in his time.2 As Catholic institutions followed every passing intellectual craze—presumably in an effort to be timely and more like their secular counterparts— the secular schools had taken prominence in traditionally “Catholic” scholastic thought (e.g., theology at the University of Chicago, philosophy at Princeton).	cache/expositions-1947.pdf	txt/expositions-1947.txt