The specific provision I have in mind, Adrian, is the declaration that the University's "Catholic identity" "depends upon the continuing presence of a predominant number of Catholic intellectuals on the faculty." I quite agree that the typical lofty declarations of Mission Statements are ordinarily taken for the PR that they are. That is true in the corporate world as well. But this faculty composition provision is of a different order, and yet it has been widely disregarded by departments that pay no heed to whether their hiring practices promote or undermine the requirement of a faculty dominated by (genuinely committed) Catholics. When most of the faculty oppose taking an applicant's religion into account at all, as the Baylor study showed to be the case at Notre Dame, what you have is a faculty most of whom are willing to trash a policy that has been settled upon after careful consideration as essential. What this means to me is that, if the Administration were to decide to exercise its undoubted authority to take whatever action is necessary to enforce this policy, no one would have ground to object, though doubtless many would, and vociferously. Since there is little evidence that the former is likely, however, we are unlikely ever to get to the latter.