Sometimes it is helpful to realize that the same types of issues that our frustrate our church (and church owned universities) also frustrate other churches (and their church owned universities).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ca ... tp&pc=U531
The article above tells us that "85 percent of Catholic young adults stop practicing their faith within ten years of their confirmation, with many of them lapsing during college." It calls for church owned schools to be safe places for parents to send their kids knowing that they will be surrounded by religious instruction and religiously minded peers.
To insure against this, some parents and students invest in faith-based education, often at greater cost than other choices. That’s why it is essential that colleges that use their “Catholicism” as a recruiting tool to attract graduating high-school seniors and their families live out their faith and accept the challenges of not only educating students for their future career paths, but also of instructing them in the beliefs the Church holds, preserves, and spreads.
This very much reminds me of the letter that was cited in Elder Hollands address.
I would hope that BYU professors would be bridging those gaps between faith and intellect and would be sending out students that are ready to do the same in loving, intelligent and articulate ways.
The article then spends a good amount of space arguing for why these Catholic universities should refuse to cover (through their insurance contracts) artificial forms of birth control.
As much as I sympathize with fearing that my children will not continue the traditions that they were raised in. This stuff about birth control seems like a needlessly silly "sky is falling" moment to me. Of course, perhaps my perspective is because our church has moved on from that particular battle ground. The most current advice from LDS church leaders is that family size and child spacing is a matter that is between each married couple and God (no intermediate necessary). How much time, tears, and prayer is our current leadership expending on the birth control question?
I wonder if some others look at our current struggle with LGBTQ+ individuals and feel like it is similarly silly?
"It is not so much the pain and suffering of life which crushes the individual as it is its meaninglessness and hopelessness." C. A. Elwood
“It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God’s moral government of the universe, but to give one courage, through faith, to go on in the face of questions he never finds the answer to in his present status.” TPC: Harold B. Lee 223
"I struggle now with establishing my faith that God may always be there, but may not always need to intervene" Heber13