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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friends who went to Catholic colleges in the 90s had limits on boys and girls mixing in the dorm or in each other’s dorm rooms enforced by dorm mother clergy.  That was way different than in my private liberal arts school with zero limits.[/quote]

That was 30+ years ago, for pete's sake.  Not relevant today.[/quote]

Notre Dame still has parietals.  (No people in opposite-sex dorms after midnight weeknights and 2am weekends)  
https://dulac.nd.edu/community-standards/standards/parietals/

I don't think that's a really big deal breaker for most people, but it is a reality.
(plenty of other places, including obviously off-campus apartments, to fraternize as you wish, and I loved that there was a semi-enforced quiet time in the dorms.)[/quote]

Yes, I know.  I was too tired and bored to post this earlier.  Notre Dame is different (ask me how I know).  Its Catholic character is more pervasive than Georgetown, Boston College and other top Catholic schools.  They're Jesuit; ND isn't.  Villanova is somewhere in the middle.  [/quote]

Agree with this.  In addition to single sex dorms, they have a chapel in every single dorm and there is mass at least once a week.  Many attend mass at other students' dorms and vice versa.  Rarely do they attend mass at the Basilica (although it is beautiful and I always try to attend when I am on campus).  My nephew's dorm had a fun tradition where they would serve milk shakes after mass every week...that was a very popular one.

The weekly masses at the dorms, the football players attending mass before every game, the basilica, touchdown Jesus, the grotto...all of these elements combined make for a strong sense of Catholic community.  I don't think you will find anything similar.....it is lovely.[/quote]

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