Hence, there can finally be no conflict between true faith and true reasoning, however much it may seem otherwise at the present moment. We live in a world of diversity, a world in which we are charged to live in peace, to make community with those different from us in myriad ways. We need to learn how to live in such a world. Let me tell you a fact about you as a group, a fact you may not know. When our wonderful enrollment management folk talk to students who choose to come here, they give many good reasons.
People are comfortable here.
Every person must feel that friendship. Each one of us must make it a reality. You have come to a university that dares to be different, to value the Catholic heritage in an age of indifference, to have a chapel at the center of the campus in an age in which faith is mocked or relegated to mere emotionality, to support the largest Campus Ministry in the known universe, to seek truth virtuously when expediency is the watchword in politics, in business, and in our society. Leave now - and we will welcome you back when you are ready. V. Dare to be different in what you do.