I understand your point that BC may not effectively transmit the Catholic faith. To the degree that the school doesn't authentically live its Catholic identiy, you have a valid point.
However, though it may not meet your criteria of a "top Catholic university", it certainly meets such criteria as generally understood. Mr. Kreeft certainly isn't an idiot for saying what is true; that by generally-accepted standards, Boston College is one of the top Catholic universities in the country.
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I'm sorry, sitetest, I strongly disagree. Kreeft may not be an "idiot" but he's wrong. "Generally-accepted standards" may be fine for secularists, but we are Catholics and we (liberals excuded) want to preserve our Catholic heritage, tradition and beliefs in an increasingly secular world including academia and there is nothing wrong in doing so.
Unfortunately, the Catholic faith is at risk when young people are sent to Jesuit run Boston University, SFU, Geogetown and other so called "Catholic" Schools who promote abortion by giving awards to pro abortion speakers and who have pro abortion authors as part of their faculty with their anti Catholic Church pro abortion books proudly displayed in the campus book store.
On a side note, I'm glad you have the opportunity for Eucharistic Adoration in your parish. Unfortunately, I would have to travel quite far outside my own area for Eucharistic Adoration.
It doesn't meet the criteria of a lot of Catholics as a "top Catholic university" not just mine. Kreeft didn't make a general statement, he wrote that Boston College is one of America's top Catholic universities. In the secular world that may be accepted as a fact but in the world of Catholic academia it isn't and it shouldn't be, whether or not you think it's true. In the distant past, I would have agreed that Boston College was a top Catholic univeristy. That is no longer true.
Accepting Kreefts' claim without question, as some of the people on this thread have, indicates what kind of mediocrity passes as "top" in the world of Catholic education. It also shows how gullible some people are. Institutions claiming to be Catholic should be held to a higher standard, both moral and academic, not "generally accepted standards". A "top Catholic university" doesn't employ people like Mary Daly or Michael Himes, it doesn't bestow honorary doctorates to people like Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and it doesn't allow people like Paul Cellucci to deliver commencement addresses. BC doesn't live up to his claim and that's a fact and I'm not the only Catholic who knows that.