The ineluctable dilemma for Catholic universities is that it is very hard to find competent intellectuals these days who are willing to pretend to believe in the Virgin Birth, transubstantiation, demons, levitating saints, that Jesus said more than a tiny fraction of the things the Jesus character says in the gospels, that St. Paul wrote the Letter to the Hebrews, that St. Peter ever went to Rome or that anything in the entire Old Testament can usefully be interpreted as a prefiguration or prognostication of the New Testament. Finding competent intellectuals who honestly believe any of these things is virtually impossible.

So you have to choose whether to be a secular university, a cartoon of a university, or a slightly cartoonish, furtively secular, intellectually implausible synthesis hiding behind adamant vagueness. For obvious reasons, they all choose the third option.