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Vatican Upgrades Rome Bioethics School
BY Edward Pentin
January 4-10, 2009 Issue 
VATICAN CITY — In a year when the
“culture of death” seemed to win many victories, news from Rome seemed to
provide some hope.
The Vatican gave its highest stamp
of approval to the School of Bioethics at Rome’s Pontifical Regina Apostolorum
College in order to help the faculty reach the top... READ MORE
Donation Transforms Kenya Catholic University
BY Nicole Ficere Callahan Book Project Makes All the Difference
December 21, 2008-January 3, 2009 Issue
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Andrew Sicree spent only a year volunteering at Strathmore
College, a Catholic institution of higher learning in Nairobi, Kenya. But he’s
part of the reason Strathmore is now a university.
In
1986-87, Sicree volunteered to teach computer data processing at what was... READ MORE
Campus Counterculture
BY Stephen Vincent Princeton Effort Gives Rise to Marriage and Family Network
December 14-20, 2008 Issue
The
destructive tendencies of the “hook-up” campus culture caused Cassandra
DeBenedetto, a 2007 Princeton University graduate, to found the Love and
Fidelity Network, which promotes a healthy view of family, marriage and
sexuality.
Register correspondent Stephen
Vincent talked with her after... READ MORE
Strong Faith, State School
BY Justin Bell After 80 Years Newman Center Innovates at Illinois
November 30-December 6, 2008 Issue
Celebrating
its 80th anniversary with a major renovation, St. John’s Catholic Newman Center
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is perhaps the most vibrantly
robust in the nation. With a 584-bed residence hall, cafeteria, on-campus
Gothic-style chapel, course offerings, and 88 young... READ MORE
Telling Truth to Youth About Abortion
BY Nicole Ficere Callahan Human Life Alliance Renews Its Efforts to Change Hearts and Minds
November 23-29, 2008 Issue
Maria
Gagliano of Vanderbilt University heard about Human Life Alliance (HLA) when
she attended a Students for Life of America conference at the University of Tennessee
last fall.
“The Human Life Alliance materials
were so eye-catching and well-researched,” she said. Gagliano’s pro-life... READ MORE
Animals-Rights Voices Grow on Campus
BY Stephen Vincent Discussions about animal-research ethics that were once confined to philosophy courses are showing up as requirements for students in medical and veterinary schools and graduate science programs.
November 16-22, 2008 Issue
NEW YORK
— When considering the use of animals in research, it is easy to find extreme
views.
There are those in academic circles, such as Princeton
University’s Peter Singer, who would afford some animals rights equal to those of humans, as well as
anarchists who attack facilities engaged in... READ MORE
Teaching by Reason and Revelation
BY NICOLE CALLAHAN
November 9-15, 2008 Issue
In last
week’s issue of the Register, Janet Smith, who holds the Father Michael J.
McGivney Chair of Life Ethics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, spoke
about issues in this year’s elections and how a misguided sense of privacy has
corrupted certain laws.
Smith, who is professor of... READ MORE
Spiritual Son of the Fathers
BY Mark Sullivan
November 2-8, 2008 Issue
Mike
Aquilina is the man behind the blog FathersOfTheChurch.com.
Aquilina is well-qualified to talk
about the Church Fathers. He has written a number of books about them,
including The Fathers of the Church: An Introduction to the
First Christian Teachers, The Mass of the Early Christians,
and The... READ MORE
Feminists for Life Rolling Out College Pro-Life Videos
BY Dana Lorelle
October 26-November 1, 2008 Issue
The first in
a series of new pro-life videos aimed at college students features a young,
dark-haired woman addressing an audience at The Catholic University of America
in Washington, D.C. “My name is Melissa Ohden,” she says in the video titled
“Face the Choice.” “I stand before you today... READ MORE
Fordham to Honor Pro-Abortion Justice
BY THOMAS McDONALD
October 19-25, 2008 Issue
In June 2000,
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the majority opinion in the Stenberg
v. Carhart case, striking down the right of states to limit which
forms of infanticide they will tolerate. The text of the decision makes for
grim reading, as Breyer describes the mutilation of a living... READ MORE
Tantum Ergo
BY Katy Carl Nationwide Trend in Eucharistic Devotions on Campus
October 12-18, 2008 Issue
It may be the
degree and careers that keep students forging ahead in the daily grind of
classes, papers and exams. But for more and more Catholic students, their daily
motivator seems to be Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.
Belmont Abbey College, just outside
of Charlotte, N.C., offers the latest... READ MORE
Catholic Identity College Guide 2008-09
See how Catholic universities answer 10 questions about their Catholic identity.
September 28-October 4, 2008 Issue
See the print version here.
The National Catholic Register and Faith & Family college guide is made possible through the cooperation of bishops, college presidents, our benefactors, and our advertisers. This year, 28 schools agreed to take our survey.
Below find:
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Collaboration
BY JOHN MOOREHOUSE New Hampshire College and Catholic Publisher Sophia Merge
September 28-October 4, 2008 Issue
Evangelization
and education. The two go hand-in-hand in the Catholic intellectual tradition.
The English-speaking Catholic world, especially in the United States, has
witnessed a renaissance of sorts over the past 30 years with the flowering of
apologetics organizations, small publishers and... READ MORE
Forming Priests for the New Millennium
BY Joseph Pronechen
September 21-27, 2008 Issue
Legionary
Father Oscar Turrión is a formator at the Pontifical Maria Mater Ecclesiae
International College in Rome.
Last week, he told the Register,
“Formation means cooperating with God’s grace in a man who has been called to
the priesthood.” He said the seminary fosters the formation of... READ MORE
‘Human, Intellectual, Spiritual’
BY Joseph Pronechen Rome Priest Discusses Formation of Priests
September 14-20, 2008 Issue
Forming a
future priest to be alter Christus
(another Christ) is an essential duty. When their seminarians come to Rome to
study at institutes connected to the Vatican, dioceses from all over the world
choose to have them live and be formed at the Pontifical Maria Mater Ecclesiae
International... READ MORE
Year of St. Paul
BY BARB ERNSTER Catholic Colleges Gear Up to Honor The Apostle of the Gentiles
September 7-13, 2008 Issue
Many college
students will be delving deeper into the life
of St. Paul during his Jubilee Year, which almost coincides with the academic
school year. Catholic colleges across the country are celebrating the year by
offering special lectures and courses on Paul and his writings, as well... READ MORE
Forming Future Priests
BY TIM DRAKE Minnesota Seminary Rector Seeks to Instill Evangelistic Spirit in Students
August 24-30, 2008 Issue
Msgr.
Aloysius Callaghan sees Mother Teresa as a model for priests. She once said
that evangelization is “taking the Jesus that is in my heart and putting him
into your heart.”
That’s what Saint Paul Seminary in
the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, where Msgr. Callaghan is rector,
is... READ MORE
When Rome Is Your Campus: Higher Studies in the Eternal City: Not Just for Seminarians
BY Edward Pentin Studying at a university in Rome has proven to be a great experience for many American Catholics — and a challenge as well.
August 17-23, 2008 Issue
ROME: The city of Rome is vacated in August. Even the Vatican comes to a near
standstill.
But
come September and October, things will return to normal, and the city will see
a new crop of students.
For
Catholics, studying or teaching at one of the nine pontifical universities in
Rome, close to the... READ MORE
Catholic Identity
BY STEPHEN VINCENT Cardinal Newman Society Launches Center for Study of Higher Education
August 10-16, 2008 Issue
Addressing Catholic educators during his visit to
the United States, Pope Benedict XVI offered a clear vision of what has become
in some academic circles a controversial point: Catholic identity in colleges
and universities.
Catholic
identity is not found simply in the percentage of Catholic... READ MORE
Humanae Vitae on Campus
BY TIM DRAKE
July 20-26, 2008 Issue
ST. PAUL,
Minn. — On July 25, 1968, Pope Paul VI issued the encyclical Humanae
Vitae. It was met with widespread dissent from Catholic priests,
religious, academics and laity.
Forty years later, faced with a host
of social ills often seen as consequences of the rejection of the... READ MORE
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