I do get a bit tired of these jokes.  Honestly, I think BC is the best Jesuit school in the country, mostly because I’ve always thought it was the firmest in its Catholic, Jesuit identity.  Loyola New Orleans, I love you like my mother, but, with the obvious caveat that New Orleans is 8,000 times better than Boston, BC does everything Loyola does and does it better.  It’s just a really solid Jesuit school.  And now it’s focusing on its Catholic identity.  That’s good, but I don’t feel like it really slipped up in the first place:

During the tenure of the current BC president, the Rev. William P. Leahy, the university has taken multiple steps that emphasize its Catholicness, strengthening its relationship with the Archdiocese of Boston, creating a new institute studying Catholicism in the 21st century, absorbing the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, and even canceling classes once each fall for a campuswide open-air Mass.

But the school has also emphasized its diversity, establishing minors in Jewish and Islamic studies.

About 70 percent of the student body at BC is Catholic. Student leaders interviewed were uniformly supportive of the new emphasis on symbols, and Dunn said he has heard no complaints from students.