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what non-believers believe By Diogenes | August 16, 2008 4:27 PM

"I have yet to let Jesus enter my life, but I admire Warren," writes Alan Wolfe in a New Republic essay. 

Well you didn't expect a New Republic writer to be a born-again Christian, did you? 

Just one thing: Wolfe is the director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Jesuit-run Boston College.

Now why would an allegedly Catholic school choose an agnostic to direct a center on religion and public life? 

But wait, you say. Is it fair to conclude, from that one sentence, that Wolfe is a non-believer? Maybe he was making some subtle point. Let's fast-forward to the end of the article, and find:

If a better balance between religion and politics is to come about, it will because of what religious leaders do, and not because of what non-believers such as myself want to happen.

 OK, let's ask the question again: Why would an allegedly Catholic school choose an agnostic to direct a center on religion and public life?

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• Posted by: samuel.doucette1787 - Aug. 19, 2008 4:23 PM ET USA

  Because the key word is "allegedly" -- BC stopped being Catholic long ago. It's an Americanist heretical school masquerading as Catholic.

• Posted by: Sir William - Aug. 17, 2008 7:04 PM ET USA

  adamah, My son was born 12 years ago on July 31. I do not think it a coincidence that reforming the Jesuits is his heart's desire.

• Posted by: Catholicity - Aug. 16, 2008 9:05 PM ET USA

  Because they're post-modernists and they believe that, in the interest of "inclusivity," they are obliged to act as though God didn't exist. We don't want the world to think ill of us, you see. St. Paul called it "caring about what man thinks, not what God thinks."

• Posted by: adamah - Aug. 16, 2008 7:25 PM ET USA

  My son was born this past July 31st----feast of St. Ignatius. I pray that someone rise to reform the order so that its schools adhere to Church teaching and proudly proclaim it.