While scrolling through Instagram after daily Mass with a group of fellow students from the Catholic student center at Yale, I stumbled upon a post with the headline, “Yale’s most popular history course this past semester was on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.”
“Hey! I was in that class and I think my section leader wrote that article!” I exclaimed to my friends, referring to the Aug. 27 piece in Slate by Sergio Infante that had prompted the social-media post and a widespread internet reaction. While many of the comments on the article expressed shock by the “rise of Catholicism” on a liberal, secular campus like Yale, my group of “Daily Mass Warriors,” as we call ourselves, was largely unfazed.
Throughout my past two years as a Yale undergrad, I have witnessed a growing presence of Catholic faith and philosophy on my Ivy League campus. This past Easter vigil, the St. Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center saw nearly 40 members of the Yale community enter the Church. In October, Choose Life at Yale saw more than 200 participants attend our annual pro-life conference, “Vita et Veritas,” including a full lecture hall for a Yale Political Union debate featuring
