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I am not Catholic, far from it - a Southern Baptist, but I would be hesitant to blame all this on Boston College.

We all know this world, our nation itself, no longer tolerates the Bible or a Christian worldview. Institutions of higher learning have been that way much earlier than the general population. Granted, BC is supposed to be a “Christian” college. But, unfortunately, many supposedly “Christian” colleges teach the same falsehoods as the secular institutions.

Now, hear me out. I don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing - IF THEY GIVE THEIR STUDENTS SUFFICIENT TOOLS TO OPPOSE THOSE FALSEHOODS!! But, they don’t!

When I attended seminary, I assumed I would be taught how to answer the world’s false claims regarding God, the Bible, and the Gospel. That was a very naive assumption for I got none of those things at seminary.

Fortunately, I was strong enough in my own faith, and knew of Christian authors and scholars who could counter the heresy I was exposed to. Seminary students would sometimes ask their professors why were they teaching us this stuff - they told us that they wanted us to be prepared for the falsehoods we would face in the real world.

Again, all of that is fine and good, if they then help you find how to counter these falsehoods. But, they really didn’t. They told us they expected us to do that on our own.

I can appreciate working and digging out information on my own, but without guidance and ignorance of resources, just sink or swim - well, the result was that some students sank. On top of that, the faculty didn’t seem to care.

That seminary, and several others, were finally revamped (during the 1980’s) and solid Christian scholars were placed in charge of those institutions (or, at least they were - I don’t know what they are like now).

My point is that many Christian colleges and seminaries do well at teaching their subjects - but, they don’t, for the most part, teach Christian apologetics. Either the faculty are unaware of those resources, or, they really believe the anti-Christian, ungodly stuff that’s being taught as “scholarship” regarding Biblical inerrancy, the integrity of Biblical manuscripts and scholarship, and orthodox Christian doctrine.

You must train students in solid Christian doctrine (what we believe and why we believe it), the absolute integrity of the Biblical manuscripts that we have today and the strong foundation for the inerrancy of Scripture - and, how to counter, be aware of, and how to answer the world’s falsehoods regarding these issues.