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.

I am very confident that the Spirit is with us.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

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

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

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

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.