As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.
From William P. Leahy
I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.
You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.
We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.
No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.
Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.
By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.
What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
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.
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