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330 n o t e s ChAPteR one 1. The passage quoted (in translation) and other content of this paragraph come from sec. 15 of Aeterni Patris. In following paragraphs, sections of papal encyclicals from which quotes are taken will be indicated parenthetically. 2. Joseph Bobik, Jokes, Life after Death, and God (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine ’s Press, 2011). 3. Although not a Thomist, Caponigri was a Catholic who attended Mass daily, often acting as server for priests high up in the administration. Anthony Simon (son of Yves Simon), a generous source of much material in this chapter, has told me that his father was once asked to vet Caponigri’s philosophic views for orthodoxy, and that they were judged favorably. 4. The succession was not entirely broken even with Hesburgh, whose father was German and mother Irish. It was renewed with President Edward Malloy (1987–2005) and current president John Jenkins. 5. Leo XIII’s promulgation of Thomism as the “normative” Catholic philosophy was repeated in one way or another by his successors Pius X (1903–1914), Benedict XV (1914–1922), Pius XI (1922–1939), and Pius XII (1939–1958). John XXIII (1958–1963) was the first pontiff in the twentieth century to remain silent on the place of Thomism in Catholic thought. (See Jose Pereira’s “Thomism and the Magisterium: from Aeterni Patris to Vertatis Splendor,” Logos 5, no. 3 [2002]: 147–83). When Joe Bobik said he was a Thomist “because the Pope said so,” he may have had the series of popes from Leo XIII to Pius XII in mind. 6. In 1908 the name of this tribunal was changed to “Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office,” and in 1965 to “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.” 7. Anton-Hermann Chroust, Socrates, Man and Myth (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1957). 8. Jacques Maritain, The Person and the Common Good, trans. John J. FitzGerald (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947). notes to Pages 28–37 331 9. This is from the Yves René Marie Simon Papers in the University of Notre Dame Archives, as reported in https://sites.google.com/a/nd.edu/the-notre -dame-center-for-ethics-and-culture. Sources for these paragraphs on Yves Simon are that website; Leo R. Ward, My Fifty Years at Notre Dame (Notre Dame: Indiana Province of the Priests of Holy Cross, 2000), chap. 8 (http://archives.nd.edu /ward); and personal communication with his son, Anthony. 10. Ward, My Fifty Years, chap. 8. 11. Ibid. 12. Best known among these probably are Prévoir et savoir: Études de la nécessit é dans la pensée scientifique et en philosophie (Montréal: Éditions de l’Arbré, 1944) and Philosophy of Democratic Government (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951). 13. Notre Dame Scholastic, October 16, 1931. His return visit the following year is noted in the Scholastic of December 2, 1932. 14. Florian Michel, La pensée catholique en Amérique du Nord (Paris: Éditions de Brouwer, 2010), 396. 15. Details of this story come from Laurence Shook, Étienne Gilson (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1984), and from personal communication with Anthony Simon. 16. Maritain’s house at 26 Linden Lane was bequeathed to the University of Notre Dame when Jacques and Raïssa moved back to France in 1960. For two decades or so it was used as a residence for ND professors spending time in Princeton on university business. I occupied it for a week in the late fall of 1978. A few years later ND sold the property, having decided that taxes and upkeep exceeded its value as a temporary residence for traveling faculty. 17. Notre Dame Scholastic, October 26, 1934. Anthony Simon informed me that Maritain made a brief earlier visit to ND in 1933. 18. Leo R. Ward, “Meeting Jacques Maritain,” Review of Politics 44, no. 4 (October 1982): 483–88. 19. Anthony Simon said that Maritain preferred staying in the infirmary because it allowed him privacy, rest, and seclusion from social events. He recalls having spent several hours with Maritain in 1955 at the Morris Inn, during which time Maritain expressed regret that there was no room for him in the infirmary. 20. This quote and other details in this section on Gödel come from John W. Dawson Jr., “Kurt Gödel at Notre Dame,” http://math.nd.edu. 21. Menger and Simon coauthored “Aristotelian Demonstration and Postulational Method,” Modern Schoolman 25, no. 3 (1948...

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