Daily Archives: January 31, 2012

New York Times Misses the Real Story

January 31, 2012 – 3:58 pm

It would be extraordinary for the New York Times to report on Catholic colleges fighting the Obama administration’s mandate for health insurance covering sterilization, contraception and abortifacients. Like the 18 colleges that joined an appeal from the Center for the Advancement of Catholic Higher Education, a division of The Cardinal Newman Society, back in September. Or defiant public statements [...]

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President of Catholic College Featured in Music Magazine

January 31, 2012 – 1:02 pm

Music has been a lifelong passion of Dr. George Harne, the president of the College of Saint Mary Magdalen. Harne holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Princeton and is featured currently in the most recent issue of Musica Disciplina , a scholarly journal published by the American Institute of Musicology. In his study “The Ends [...]

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“Psychic Night” at Catholic College!!!

January 31, 2012 – 11:49 am

Hundreds of students at Cabrini College just outside Philadelphia had their fortunes told at “Psychic Night” earlier this month, according to the student newspaper The Loquitur. Students’ fortunes were told by professional tarot card readers at “Psychic Night” on Thursday Jan. 19, said the student newspaper. This is the second annual “Psychic Night” at Cabrini [...]

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Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life Headlined by Archbishop Chaput

January 31, 2012 – 9:46 am

The Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life at Georgetown University took place on Sunday, January 22, with the goal of educating and connecting college and high school students from around the country on the day before the March for Life. At the conference, students had the opportunity to listen to leading voices in the pro-life movement, [...]

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And the Award for Most Students at the March for Life Goes to…

January 31, 2012 – 8:37 am

The Tower reports that students from The Catholic University of America comprised the largest contingent of students from any college at the March for Life last Monday, January 22.  From the report: Around 500 members of the CUA community stood on the steps of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on January [...]

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Jesuits Honored by White House as Obama Admin Chokes Church

January 31, 2012 – 8:36 am

While Catholic bishops and the lay faithful railed last week against Obama’s HHS mandate for coverage of contraception, sterilization and some abortion causing drugs, two Jesuit priests were honored by the White House for their work in Catholic higher education. Fr. Charles Currie, S.J., president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, and Fr. [...]

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