Frightful Fire Easter Morning at Thomas Aquinas College Chapel – New England campus

Frightful Fire Easter Morning at Thomas Aquinas College Chapel – New England campus

admin April 14, 2023 0 Comments

Early Easter morning, as head chaplain Fr. Greg Markey opened the chapel door at Thomas Aquinas College, New England campus, thick black smoke rushed out the door and in his face.  He quickly grabbed a fire extinguisher and tackled the blaze, only slightly diminishing the raging flames. It wasn’t enough to douse the flames devouring…

Being Thankful, Breaking the Poverty Cycle, and Education as a Battleground

Being Thankful, Breaking the Poverty Cycle, and Education as a Battleground

Tim Von Dohlen December 14, 2022 0 Comments

Beginning to think about Christmas gets a power boost as we get into Advent and the four Sundays before Christmas day. Sharing the daily Bible readings of the Mass and the stories in the various daily devotionals we read gets Pat and me in a reflective mood. There is no question that the world changed…

Desperate Plea from Ukranian Catholic University: What’s really going on in Ukraine

Desperate Plea from Ukranian Catholic University: What’s really going on in Ukraine

admin February 24, 2022 0 Comments

We at Catholic Business Journal have personally met with the head priest and top administration of, and learned about, the Ukrainian Catholic University during our attendance at previous years’ Napa Institute.  We learned they are the only — ONLY — Catholic university in the Ukraine and that they have managed to maintain a consistent, though…

Notre Dame Students Go to War over ‘Woke’ Catholicism

Notre Dame Students Go to War over ‘Woke’ Catholicism

admin November 9, 2021 0 Comments

NR—It is a sad reality that, among students at the University of Notre Dame, it is becoming unacceptable to share Catholic Church teaching on matters of human identity and sexuality. A few weeks back, Notre Dame senior Mary Frances Myler — who serves as editor in chief of the Irish Rover, an independent student newspaper…

A Student Speaks Out: Catholic University of America cancels Abby Johnson, campus pro-life club devastated

A Student Speaks Out: Catholic University of America cancels Abby Johnson, campus pro-life club devastated

admin February 9, 2021 0 Comments

When I decided to return to class at Catholic University of America in the spring, I knew things would be different. I was ready to face the challenge of the COVID-19 restrictions, as well as the political climate revolving around the election and BLM movement. What I was not ready for was to watch as…

New Catholic University: Faith and Science – STEM Degree Programs at Catholic Polytechnic University

New Catholic University: Faith and Science – STEM Degree Programs at Catholic Polytechnic University

Ken Lambert September 30, 2019 0 Comments

A 2017 national survey stated that up to 74% of Catholic youths and teens (between 12 and 20 years old) will leave the Church before their 21st birthday. Some will come back to the Holy Apostolic Church later in life, and some with join a Protestant or Evangelical church. Unfortunately, many will never return to…

How a Kansas humanities program shaped a generation of Catholic leaders

How a Kansas humanities program shaped a generation of Catholic leaders

admin September 3, 2019 0 Comments

Hope in the workplace!  Sometimes in our work, especially in our efforts to integrate our faith in every aspect of our work and decisions, it can feel like we’re fighting against windmills.  But we underestimate God’s ability to use our feeble efforts for his greater glory.  As Fr. Benedict Groeschel once told me, “God can…

The Land O’ Lakes Statement Caused Devastation For 50 Years

The Land O’ Lakes Statement Caused Devastation For 50 Years

admin August 13, 2019 0 Comments

Catholic Business Journal—You may not be familiar with the Land O’Lakes Statement, but it radically—radically—changed Catholic higher education from the date of its signing in 1967 by major Catholic college and university presidents until 1990, when Saint Pope John Paul II issued Ex Corde Ecclesiae.  Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the apostolic constitution for Catholic universities, soundly…

In Academia as in Government, Personnel Is Policy

In Academia as in Government, Personnel Is Policy

admin April 8, 2019 0 Comments

News is that Providence College, where I taught for 27 years, will be getting a new president in 2020. He won’t have troubles with money or buildings. For re-establishing the Catholic faith as the school’s foundation, and aim, and reason for existence, he will face, outside of the theology department, a nearly universal hostility from a faculty…

University of Notre Dame Students and Alumni Protest University’s Choice of Radical Pro-Abortion Obama as Commencement Speaker

admin May 17, 2009 0 Comments

May 17, 2009 — As the University of Notre Dame administration this year boasts securing the most aggressively pro-abortion president of the United States ever, Barrack Hussein Obama, as its 2009 Commencement Speaker, not far away a large — very large — gathering of faithful students, alumni and others gather in protest. In the 10-minute…