By Mary Frances Myler, First Things - University of Notre Dame president Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., transformed Catholic education. In the 1967 Land O'Lakes Statement, he laid out his vision for the Catholic university in the modern world, calling for autonomy from the Catholic Church’s authority... Fr. John Jenkins, C.S.C. (prepares) to retire after an 18-year tenure, Jenkins has built on Hesburgh’s legacy with the continued growth of fundraising and research facilities. But something far more interesting transpired during his two decades at the helm—the sexual revolution came to that little campus in South Bend, Indiana.