A good Jesuit is hard to find

Omaha, Neb., World Herald

July 17, 2010

The committee tasked with replacing the outgoing Creighton University president, the Rev. John Schlegel, will search long and hard for a Jesuit priest, a Creighton leader said this week, trying to continue a tradition that began when the Rev. Romanus Shaffel became Creighton's first president in 1878. But the search committee also might bump into a 21st century reality that's increasingly pushing other Jesuit universities to hire non-priests as presidents. Simply put, a good Jesuit is getting hard to find.

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