CV NEWS FEED // In his final article for The Irish Rover, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus W. Joseph DeReuil issues a blistering reflection on Notre Dame’s treatment of journalists at the student-run publication, and makes an exciting announcement about his future.
“Notre Dame is dead,” stated Dereui in his April 24 article, “A Requiem for Notre Dame.” He continued: “That is, she has been killed in the eyes of the large swaths of American Catholics who have populated her quads since her founding in 1842.”
Widely regarded as one of The Irish Rover’s most pioneering and controversial Editors-in-Chief, DeReuil also announced that he would be entering the postulancy for the Norbertines of St Michael’s Abbey:
In 2021, Dereuil co-authored a defense of Notre Dame Editor-in-Chief Mary Frances Myler’s article, “No Man Can Serve Two Masters,” which he said “succinctly defended Church Teaching on marriage and sexuality and considered how Notre Dame had failed to promote this teaching.”
Derueil noted that the editorial staff did not anticipate “such an explosion of campus controversy,” following the article’s publication, which denounced Notre Dame’s apparent embrace of LGBTQ+ agenda, or the controversy which ensued following DeReuil’s own October 2022 article on a Notre Dame professor promoting abortion access to students.
“Growth comes through conflict,” DeReuil wrote, reflecting on the experience of missing class to endure a five-hour deposition in the defamation lawsuit filed against him by Professor Tamara Kay.
Even if I would rather struggle through understanding Dante than learn how to articulate a two-sentence defense of the Church’s teaching on life to the Associated Press, I have grown immensely through doing both.
The Indiana Court dismissed Tamara Kay v. The Irish Rover in January 2024, as CatholicVote previously reported.
In light of the University’s wavering stance on critical issues, DeReuil wrote, “Notre Dame often presents herself as a dead creature—body separated from soul—to be accepted by the world’s elite academic institutions, which have invariably abandoned their founding missions.”
However, he continued, “there is still a fight and, more importantly, there are still some of the finest Catholic academics and students in the country.”
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