A New England space for students to grow in faith

Northeast Catholic College is located in Warner, New Hampshire, and has 90 students and five majors: great books, literature, philosophy, politics and theology. Most of the student body and faculty are practicing Catholics. The college first offered classes in 1974, director of

Emmitsburg shrine points to rich local history

Nestled in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains is the town of Emmitsburg — a bastion of American Catholicism. The sleepy mountain town is about a two-hour drive north of Washington, D.C., and just south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, located in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Emmitsburg

Student trips provide space for conversion

The Catholic faith is a tactile, incarnational faith. It is a faith of long memory, including the memory of physical things: relics and books, and places for pilgrimage. It is also a lived faith, one in which we are called by Jesus

A pilgrimage to heaven, on and off campus

Last September, 70 students out of a total of about 90 attending Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire, piled into a charter bus and headed to New York for the three-day Pilgrimage for Restoration in New York. They joined

Ave Maria promotes faith at every step

Ave Maria University in southwest Florida is a newer Catholic college, having been established in 2003, but it has a vibrant campus ministry program, which includes five priests serving the needs of its 1,052 students. Students are encouraged to participate in daily Mass

Faith and science working together

Writing commands in computer code, attaching sensors and connecting circuit boards are usually not the first things that come to mind in connection with an extracurricular activity at a Catholic liberal arts college. But that is exactly what students in the robotics

Against ‘autonomy’ that denies human dignity

“The Church must work in the coming months with unions, workers, the elderly, and the poor to counter the growing imperialism of market mechanisms within American public life,” said Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego at the third “Erroneous Autonomy” conference

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