One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

I am very confident that the Spirit is with us.

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.