译文:像罗马天主教会和其他古老的机构一样,该机构-仍然是私下里而不是公开地-质疑其过去关于能力,权威,招生以及课程学习的假设是否真的与20世纪90年代的问题相关.
it is asking- still in private rather than in public- whether its past assumptions about faculty,authority,admissions,courses of study,are really relevant to the problems of the 1990's.这部分分解为
it is asking whether its past assumptions are really relevant to the problems of the 1990's
就很容易看得懂了.