Catholic Legal Education

I just finished reading a book about Ignatian Spirituality that observed that "When Ignatius agreed to found colleges, he was providing (in modern terms) 'graced' institutions through which the word and kingdom of God could be spread more widely.  He also recognized that people in positions of responsibility and power influenced the structures of society, even to the extent of controlling them, and so were able to make those structures and institutions 'graced' or sinful means of promoting or hindering the kingdom of God."

Reading that caused me to reflect again on a question many of us have considered and some have written about - the question of what it means to be a Catholic law school.  Although I recognize that different institutions will have different answers to that question, I hope that it means that we seek to be 'graced' institutions in the Ignatian sense of the term.

I'd be interested in hearing from others concerning the extent to which their schools think and talk about this question at an institutional level.

Susan