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Denying Campus Club Funds Works in Favor of Pro-Life Group
BY Steve Weatherbe
November 22-28, 2009 Issue 
Pro-abortion activists on university campuses
across Canada are finding their efforts to suppress the pro-life voice are
sometimes self-defeating.
Last
month hundreds of University of Victoria students witnessed a debate that
pro-abortion groups on campus didn’t want to happen and a graphic... READ MORE
Opting Out of Hooking Up
BY Thomas L. McDonald College Men Are Meeting to Encourage Purity in Each Other
November 1-7, 2009 Issue
Men have
always struggled with issues of sexual purity, but a young man entering college
in the 21st century faces challenges undreamed of by his predecessors.
Only a few generations ago, sexual
material was confined to under-the-counter publications, bawdy playing cards,
and seedy bars in bad... READ MORE
Catholic Identity College Guide
BY The Register Always in 'Resources' Above See how Catholic universities answer 10 questions about their Catholic identity.
October 18-24, 2009 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, 30 schools agreed to take our survey.
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Pro-Life Initiative
BY THOMAS UEBBING Notre Dame President to Join March for Life in Washington
October 18-24, 2009 Issue
The controversy over the University of Notre Dame’s
honors to pro-abortion President Obama at its May 17 commencement has led some
pro-life advocates to question whether the university is pro-life — or even
Catholic.
But
it appears Notre Dame is trying to take the high ground.
Holy
Cross... READ MORE
Life After Graduation Includes Service
BY Amy Smith Recent College Graduates Take Time to Volunteer
October 11-17, 2009 Issue
Their
diplomas may be in hand, but not all graduates go straight to work or graduate
school. For many Catholic college graduates, life after graduation includes
time for volunteering — and they have found what Pope Benedict XVI commented on
in his latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate... READ MORE
Fraternity Once for Excluded Catholics Enjoys Spiritual Revival in U.S.
BY Kimberly Jansen
October 4-10, 2009 Issue
On a college
campus, it isn’t uncommon to hear of a 21st birthday “bar crawl” where a group
of students stops at as many taverns as possible in one evening — often leaving
the guest of honor so intoxicated he can barely walk home.
Members of the Phi Kappa Theta
fraternity at the University... READ MORE
Ins and Outs of College Funding
BY Lori Hadacek Chaplin
September 27-October 3, 2009 Issue
College
tuition costs are on the rise. According to the College Board (College
Board.com), the cost of a private four-year college averages $25,143 (up 5.9%
from last year); a public four-year school costs about $6,585 (up 6.4% from
last year).
“College costs can often be shocking
to parents... READ MORE
Midwestern College Dedicates Marian Shrine
BY Joseph Pronechen
September 27-October 3, 2009 Issue
ATCHISON, Kan. — Benedictine College
has always felt a special connection to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The college
thanked her this year by building Mary’s Grotto near the heart of the campus.
With hundreds gathered on Sept. 8,
the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Archbishop... READ MORE
Keeping Catholic at College
BY Amy Smith
September 27-October 3, 2009 Issue
The college
years are a wonderful time to grow in faith. Students just need to know how to
stay “plugged in” on campus so they graduate with both their degrees and their
faith.
Faith factor. Do your
homework. Check out Catholic campus ministries as you research prospective
colleges. Visit to... READ MORE
School House
BY Monta Monaco Hernon College Wants to Make Pregnant Students Feel at Home
September 27-October 3, 2009 Issue
The monks of
Belmont Abbey in Belmont, N.C., hope to provide college women who become
pregnant with the resources they need to choose life.
A Charlotte-based organization
called Room at the Inn is raising the money to build and staff a residential
on-campus maternity and after-care facility on... READ MORE
Catholic Fiction Finder
BY Amy Smith Editor Talks About New Division of Sophia Institute Press
September 20-26, 2009 Issue
Have you been looking for good Catholic fiction?
So is Sophia Institute Press.
Regina
Doman, author of several Catholic
fairy-tale novels for teens, and her husband, Andrew Schmiedicke, are freelance
editors/agents for Chisel and Cross Books from Sophia Institute Press.
Doman
spoke about the... READ MORE
Students Learn to Bring Christ to Peers at ‘School of the New Evangelization’
BY Susan Klemond
August 23-September 5, 2009 Issue
Colleen D’Andrea and
fellow students at
Texas State University’s
Catholic Student
Center want to be
bearers of Christ’s image — so they
can set their campus on fire.
Inspired, some say, by grace
from the Jubilee Year and at the
same time disillusioned with the
secular culture, a growing... READ MORE
Christ in the City
BY Thomas L. McDonald Secular University in New York Getting Focus on Faith
September 13-19, 2009 Issue
Bringing the
Catholic faith to students in the middle of secular ground zero is a daunting
task, but that’s the challenge facing the new team of Focus (Fellowship of
Catholic University Students) missionaries at New York University.
Centered in the heart of Greenwich
Village, NYU is the largest... READ MORE
Belmont Abbey’s Health-Plan Battle
BY Dana Lorelle Federal Action Facing Catholic College Bodes Ill for Conscience Clauses
September 6-12, 2009 Issue
Once again, the president of a
Catholic college in North Carolina is declaring that he would sooner close the
institution than violate the teachings of the Church.
The first time William Thierfelder
made that remark was last year, when Belmont Abbey College was confronted with
a discrimination... READ MORE
Life Preparation at Magdalen
BY Justin Bell
August 9-22, 2009 Issue
If someone were to comment that
Magdalen College’s campus is “kind of secluded,” the college’s president,
Jeffrey Karls, might be apt to tell them the location is by design. The campus,
outside of Warner, N.H., is quiet, but also close to amenities such as
Manchester-Boston Regional Airport... READ MORE
Gonzaga President Steps Down and Into New Life
BY Anthony Flott
July 26-August 8, 2009 Issue
Jesuit Father
Robert Spitzer leaves behind a Gonzaga University dramatically different than
it was when he became the university’s president. He also leaves behind his
share of detractors and unwavering supporters, some of whom are bankrolling his
future endeavors.
After 11 years leading the... READ MORE
Denver’s Augustine Institute Spreads Message Through DVD Courses
BY Joseph Pronechen
July 12-25, 2009 Issue
DENVER — In Wichita, Kan., newly
married Mary Kroupa wanted to earn a master’s degree in theological studies
from the Augustine Institute in Denver, but relocating was impossible. Her
friends in Atlanta and Wisconsin were in the same situation.
In Glenwood Springs, Colo., high
school teacher... READ MORE
Only Catholic College in Georgia Graduates First Class
BY PAUL A. BARRA
June 28-July 11, 2009 Issue
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. — The first and
only Catholic college in the state of Georgia celebrated its first commencement
exercise May 16. At the same time, the pioneering, lay-founded Catholic school
also announced a new affiliation that could drive its future growth.
Southern Catholic College is... READ MORE
Sacramental Storyteller
BY EDWARD PENTIN Flannery O’Connor Explored the Work of Grace in People’s Lives, Professor Says
June 21-27, 2009 Issue
Flannery
O’Connor was not only one of America’s most accomplished authors of the 20th
century — she was also a devout Catholic whose writings reflected her deep
faith.
Henry Edmondson III, a professor of
public administration and political science at the Georgia College and State
University,... READ MORE
Education Behind Bars
BY Anthony Flott Catholic College Contributes to Reducing Recidivism
June 14-20, 2009 Issue
Like other
college students, James Shehan and Tuan Huynh have dreams of making a
difference. Shehan hopes to mentor troubled youth and keep them off the
streets. Huynh wants to become a biblical counselor.
Unlike other college students,
Shehan and Huynh are convicted murderers.
Both are serving... READ MORE
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