re: Catholic Universities - What’s Catholic about them?

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Meh. Rice is "pretty damn good." Baylor is okay. Certainly not worth the price.

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Rice is 16 is the US NEWS rankings. Baylor is 78.

Also, most smart kids aren't paying anything near the advertised total at Baylor. I had friends that went there because it was cheaper for them than UT after scholarships.

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What’s Catholic about them?

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The girls put out like Catholic girls do.

Before I attended LSU, I was on scholarship at an NAIA Catholic college.

It was a Jesuit school, and theology courses were mandatory.

I was essentially kicked off the basketball team and out of school after the fall semester my sophomore year for accurately describing the “theology” being taught as anti-Christian and straight from Anton LeVay’s Satanic Bible.

“Liberation Theology,” as the Jesuits call it, is virtually indistinguishable from Satanic principles, and as a Christian I couldn’t get on board with that nonsense.

Hope that helps OP.

Four Religious based courses are required at Loyola, but it doesn't necessarily have to be Catholic. My daughter went to Catholic schools basically her entire life all the way through her BS.

Yes even Catholic and other denomination schools focus more on eductation than religion, but there is still a religious aspect to most of them.

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Alternatively, these "snake handling" and "glossolalia" schools (Texas Christian, Baylor, Liberty) are nothing too different than your K-12 fly-by-night "Christian academies" that are developed into old, run-down malls or shopping centers.

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You've clearly never stepped foot on at least one of these campuses and don't know WTF you're talking about. I can't speak to Liberty (and don't really remember much about TCU's campus), but Baylor is definitely not a "developed into old run-down mall" and is pretty damn expensive.

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There’s a few extra religious statues. There is a church or chapel ON Campus as opposed to adjacent to campus.

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There is a Catholic chapel across from the UC on UNO’s campus, or it least there was in 1990. I would also consider Christ the King as essentially being on LSU’s campus, though it may not be officially. Don’t have much other experience, but clearly there is only one touchdown Jesus that I’m aware of in the US.

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Drinking does occur even at catholic universities. Shocker...lol.

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Since when have Catholics cared about alcohol consumption?

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Alternatively, these "snake handling" and "glossolalia" schools (Texas Christian, Baylor, Liberty) are nothing too different than your K-12 fly-by-night "Christian academies" that are developed into old, run-down malls or shopping centers.

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Holy shite...

Where are you getting your information?

St. Joseph in St. Benedict, Louisiana is an undergraduate seminary. St. Joseph Abbey makes the caskets, and now honey, not the seminary next door.

Notre Dame du Lax, in Indiana, is such a confusing place. They have that grotto of the Blessed Mother, the basilica which is beautiful, and all of the residence halls and many other buildings all have beautiful chapels. Then they invite pro-aborts. to speak at commencement exercises and give them awards.

In 1964 a number of influential academics at Catholic universities met at a place called Land-o-Lakes to set up a framework so that the academic endeavours could be detached from the strictures of Catholic teachings. This is the point when most Catholic universities began to look more like secular universities with crucifixes in the classrooms.

The Newman Society lists colleges that are authentically Catholic and grades them according to their orthodoxy.

The Newman Center at UNO is still there and open. I know the priest pretty well.