I think the rest, the acquaintance with other traditions, can be had in other ways. Whereas you're probably forced to at least examine Catholicism through a core curriculum in a Catholic university. You're gonna be talking in just a second about religion as it relates to public policy and, being on a college campus, I would expect there's going to be a liberal atmosphere in the room. Because i'll come in and find out how original Northwestern students really are. If its' the same old questions, you'll get the same old answers.
Religion is a vision, but it's a vision that makes moral demands, so religion is a normative system.
And public policy is concerned with norms, so you've got a conversation between two normative systems. A religious person wants to see that there's as little disagreement between the two systems as possible or else you're always living with enormous tension, and eventually, if the division between the two normative systems becomes so great, well then you have to face martyrdom, as has often been the case in history. Because in the end it's the religious vision that brings you eternal salvation or human fulfillment, not something less than that.