CHOOSING A CATHOLIC COLLEGE

DePaul, Georgetown, Notre Dame, USF, Loyola, Fordham, Boston U. Are these Catholic colleges? Traditionally, yes. Today, however, their Catholic identity is largely cultural. Catholic students who attend these schools, and a host of others, graduate with their Catholic faith damaged, compromised, or dispensed with altogether at a greater rate than would have been the case had they attended a government university. Shocking, no? The following is from an exhausitve report commissioned by the Cardinal Newman Society:

A survey of students at 38 Catholic

colleges—including major universities

like Creighton, Loyola Marymount, Notre

Dame, and St. John’s of New York—

reveals that graduating seniors are

predominantly pro-abortion, approve

of homosexual “marriage,” and only occasionally

pray or attend religious services.

Nine percent of Catholic students

abandon their faith before graduation.

http://cns.winxweb.com/Portals/0/docs/UCLAStudy.pdf

For example, there is a play titled The Vagina Monologues that circulates among college campuses. It favorably describes lesbian activity, masturbation and the reduction of sexuality to selfish pleasure. Promoted by the organization V-Day and performed to support the end to violence against women, often as a fundraiser for women’s shelters, the good intentions of the performers are undermined by the play’s obscene and demeaning content. The following will be hosting this production in 2011:

Bellarmine University
Boston College
College of Saint Rose
College of the Holy Cross
DePaul University
Fordham University
Georgetown University
John Carroll University
Loyola University Chicago
Marquette University
Seattle University
University of Detroit Mercy
Saint Mary's College of California

The University of San Francisco plans to honor Sr. Carol Keehan, the president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, a key supporter of Obama's healthcare bill which would federally fund abortions. Notre Dame honored President Barack Obama with an honorary degree and stage as their commencement speaker in May 2010. And the list goes on and on.

It is incumbent upon Catholic parents and students to read through the wealth of material compiled by the Cardinal Newman Society as an aide to identifying the secular drift in the majority of Catholic colleges, as well as to ascertain the meritorious colleges, often unknown by many, which are striving to be truly worthy of the name Catholic. Below is the list of these eminently worthy schools; refer to the website for particulars:

Aquinas College
Nashville, Tennessee

Ave Maria University
Ave Maria, Florida

Belmont Abbey College
Belmont, North Carolina

Benedictine College
Atchison, Kansas

The Catholic University
of America
Washington, D.C.

Christendom College
Front Royal, Virginia

The College of
Saint Thomas More
Fort Worth, Texas

DeSales University
Center Valley, Pennsylvania

Franciscan University
of Steubenville
Steubenville, Ohio

Holy Apostles
College & Seminary
Cromwell, Connecticut

John Paul the Great
Catholic University
San Diego, California

The College of
Saint Mary Magdalen
Warner, New Hampshire

Mount St. Mary's University
Emmitsburg, Maryland
Providence College
Providence, Rhode Island

St. Gregory's University
Shawnee, Oklahoma

Thomas Aquinas College
Santa Paula, California
The Thomas More
College of Liberal Arts
Merrimack, New Hampshire

University of Dallas
Irving, Texas

University of St. Thomas
Houston, Texas

Wyoming Catholic College
Lander, Wyoming

Campion College
Old Toongabbie, Australia

Catholic Distance University
Online

Our Lady Seat
of Wisdom Academy
Barry's Bay, Ontario, Canada

Pontifical University of
St. Thomas Aquinas
Rome, Italy

Redeemer Pacific College
Langley, British Columbia, Canada