The collision between Catholic ideals, principles, and attitudes and The Vagina Monologues (see sidebar) raises the question, not what harm the play will cause at Notre Dame, but what at Notre Dame has caused the play. The successful insistence of elements of the faculty that Father Jenkins sanction the play, coupled with the dramatic shrinking of Catholic faculty representation (see graph), point to the answer: the mounting secularization of the University. But many of the school's Catholic underpinnings remain, and Father Jenkins has announced his intention to confront squarely the faculty composition problem.