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:

How to participate

The Survey

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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

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

Music After College

BY Joseph Pronechen

Catholic Alumni Use Their Talents to Sing Something Beautiful for God

July 13-19, 2008 Issue

World Youth Day will feature the talents of many young Catholics, but one is a veteran World Youth Day performer.

Sarah Bauer was featured in Faith & Family magazine’s Everyday Apostles section along with other young Catholic alumni who have become musicians. Here are their stories.