The Ostermann fiasco is over; Notre Dame’s Catholic identity crisis isn’t

Abortion-rights advocate Susan Ostermann’s decision to withdraw from her appointment as the new head of the University of Notre Dame’s Asian studies institute is welcome news, so far as it goes. But it’s only the start of initiating a necessary review to identify the factors that allowed her completely indefensible appointment to occur. And more broadly, to do everything that’s necessary to reinstate a comprehensively Catholic identity, throughout all of Notre Dame’s operations.