Catholic Universities

Catholic University Alumni Protest DeVos' Upcoming Speech. A group of alumni from a conservative Catholic university is asking the Florida school to rescind an invitation to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to speak at the school's graduation. April 15, 2018, at 12:47 p.m.. Catholic University Alumni Protest DeVos' ...

MILWAUKEE -- An organization claims Catholic values are being threatened over a "Pride Prom" at Marquette University. An online petition has thousands of signatures to stop an LGBT event slated to take place Saturday at the university. University leaders say despite the opposition, the event will go on as ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNS) — The Indonesian government has chosen two top Catholic universities to help underdeveloped universities improve their quality of education. Ucanews.com reported that Atma Jaya Catholic University in Jakarta and Soegijapranata Catholic University in Semarang are among ...

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin - Students at Marquette University are moving forward with plans for a “Pride Prom” celebrating the school's LGBT community despite an online petition from a Catholic group asking the Jesuit school to block it. Marquette University's LGBTQ+ Resource Center promoted Saturday's ...

Desiree Cordero Rios, who had just begun her freshman year at a university in Puerto Rico when Hurricane Maria struck, poses for a Feb. 1 photo at The Catholic University of America in Washington. The university said in November that it would take up to 40 students who were enrolled in colleges or ...

This year's NCAA basketball tournament was one for the books for Catholic universities. You might even say the ball was in their court. That's because for the first time, Catholic university teams won both the men's and women's national championship games. The women's team, the Fighting Irish from the ...

Yes, I'm going against Sister Jean during Easter weekend, but I'm not completely on my own. Remember this bit of history. 'Nova was named after St. Thomas of Villanova, and that school is the oldest Catholic university in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Holy Week, after all, is not just for Chicago.

''I also had a chance to visit the house of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa's sisters, in Washington, which is not far from Catholic University.'' Pilot photo/CardinalSeansBlog.org ...

In an effort to assist those impacted by Hurricanes Irma and Maria that hit Puerto Rico last September, The Catholic University of America announced in the fall that it would be accepting up to 40 students currently enrolled in colleges or universities in Puerto Rico as visiting students for the spring 2018 ...

The editorial board of The Hoya, the school newspaper at Georgetown University, has called upon the institution to legitimize a pro-abortion group on campus, claiming that the school should “protect the free exchange of ideas” and formally recognize the student organization even though it stands directly ...

Hannibal Buress' microphone was cut off and he left the stage early during his performance last night at Loyola University Chicago, the Catholic institution's newspaper the Loyola Phoenix reports. He was cut off after he reportedly alluded to the Catholic church's history of child molestation and sexual ...

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The top financial administrator of a Catholic university in Miami has resigned rather than step down from the board of the parent company of a manufacturer of weapons, including semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15, which was recently used in the mass shooting at Marjory ...

The Catholic University of America has joined the nearly 300 other universities that have pledged to not hold the disciplinary records of prospective students, who have been penalized for peacefully protesting gun violence, against their application status. Student protests across the country have developed ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The top financial administrator of a Catholic university in Miami has resigned rather than step down from the board of a company that manufactures weapons, including automatic rifles such as the AR-15, which was recently used in the mass shooting of students at Marjory Stoneman ...

The symposium was held at The Catholic University of America to celebrate the completion of the cataloging of nearly 100 boxes of papers by Father Neuhaus donated to the school's American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives. The papers include his correspondences, publications ...

A newly hired chief financial officer of a Catholic university outside Miami resigned Tuesday after uproar over her recent appointment to the board of one of the nation's largest firearms companies, the same company that manufactured the weapon used in last month's mass shooting at a Florida high school.

Father Richard John Neuhaus, the founder of the Institute for Religion and Public Life and its magazine, First Things, was remembered during a March 7 symposium at The Catholic University of America for his dedication to ecumenical dialogue and belief in the importance of religion in the public square.

Julia G. Young is a historian of Mexico and Latin America at the Catholic University of America. A few years ago, I taught an undergraduate course on migration at the Catholic University of America. During one lecture, I compared nineteenth-century Italian migration and contemporary Mexican migration to ...

Sunyani, Feb. 23, GNA – The Catholic University College of Ghana (CUCG) chapter of the Entrepreneurship Action in US (ENACTUS), a student social enterprise group, has been crowned the ultimate winner of the 2018 national Duapa Challenge competition. The Duapa Challenge is a social innovation ...

It was a day of creativity and collaborative thinking, as students at The Catholic University of America in Washington recently competed to develop high-tech solutions for helping Washington's homeless population. The students were participating in Hacking Homelessness, the university's first-ever ...

Using modern choreography and costuming, the show will feature a cast of Catholic University students representing every class - freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior. Director Jay Brock, clinical associate professor of acting and directing, notes that the production parallels many issues and recurring ...

Food business incubator Mess Hall and Catholic University's Busch School of Business will team up for a new mentoring and internship program at Mess Hall's Northeast D.C. facility. The two will create the “Learning Lab," creating educational content for Mess Hall members that focuses on strategy, ...

Last month DePaul University's student paper asked where all the Catholics are at the nation's largest Catholic university, with more than 22,000 students. Not only is its new president not a Catholic priest for the first time in its 120-year history, but DePaul's first-year population that identifies as Catholic has ...

Student-Written Plays To Premiere At Catholic University The Catholic University of America Department of Drama is presenting two original plays by M.F.A. playwriting candidates in February: River Like Sin by Lindsay Adams and The Knot by Liz Maestri. The playwrights' creativity will be brought to life in ...

New Orleans, La., Feb 12, 2018 / 12:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Of the 106 historically black colleges in the United States, only one is Roman Catholic - Xavier University of Louisiana. But Xavier is also the only Catholic college, of the United States' 251 Catholic colleges, to have been founded by an American-born saint.

Washington — The landscape and traditional way of doing business may be changing, but Catholic higher education still has much to offer communities, the country, and the world, speakers said as the 2018 Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting began Feb. 3 here. This year's ...

A Catholic priest is accused of sexual misconduct on the campus of St. Gregory's University in Shawnee and former students and faculty have questioned whether officials at the now-shuttered college failed to properly investigate complaints. Two women have filed a lawsuit against the university, which ...

Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the apostolic constitution on Catholic higher education, says that "a Catholic University's task is to promote dialogue between faith and reason." That seems natural enough. Universities are concerned with knowing, and faith and reason are complementary ways of getting at the truth.

The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., has notified Archbishop Chaput that Catholics of the Philadelphia Archdiocese donated $178,442 to the university's recent national collection. A letter to the archbishop from CUA President John Garvey dated Feb. 21 noted that 280 students of the ...