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Abbot Placid Solari, 70, chancellor of Belmont Abbey Catholic College in Belmont, North Carolina. / Credit: Belmont Abbey CollegeBelmont, North Carolina, Apr 6, 2023 / 12:15 pm (CNA).What s needed in today s college environment is diversity, said Abbot Placid Solari of Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina.But his definition of diversity is not the one most people are used to hearing about. The 70-year-old, spectacled abbot told CNA that though sorely needed, "religious diversity is not the diversity people want," most especially not in academia.Forgoing his normal lunch after Mass and noonday prayers, Solari sat in his office for an interview on a rainy Friday in March.Inside the 100-year-old-plus Benedictine monastery, located in the town of Belmont, a suburb of Charlotte, Solari answered questions in a quiet voice, reflecting on his 23 years as abbot at North Carolina s only Catholic college.The college experience today is almost always associated with either binge-drink