Faithful Catholic Colleges Or Colleges With Strong Catholic Presence/n

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La Crosse has an amazing Newman center with a great priest. I even drive more than an hour on sunday to see him.

What does your sister wanna study?

[scardella]

[quote name='Revprodeji' post='1084666' date='Oct 5 2006, 01:53 AM']
What does your sister wanna study?
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I think that's a very important question here... Some of these colleges have good reputations in some fields, but not as good in others. On an academic level (in my field), I probably could've done much better going elsewhere (I went to FUS, BS in Comp Sci). However, the Catholicism of FUS was so overwhelming that I couldn't say no. I think, though, that I knew I could handle myself when I got out into the field anyway, but I had difficulty finding a job afterward.

That said, I can recommend FUS and OLHCC from personal experience (at least in terms of Theology). I'm awfully tempted to apply to the master's program in Theology that just started at OLHCC. They've only got 3 theology profs, but I know two of them, and they are amazing. And FUS is FUS. It's simply amazing.

Edited October 5, 2006 by scardella

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='beata_virgo_maria' post='1084465' date='Oct 4 2006, 11:29 PM']
Thanks, I meant to say only a faithful newman center if the University wasn't Catholic. But, I am trying to find names of faithfull Catholic University's also.
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The University of Nebraska in Lincoln and the University of Illinois (or is it Illinois University?) in Champagne-Urbana both have awesome Newman Centers.

Try to look for a place that has the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), which is an amazing organization.

[url="http://www.focusonline.org/campuses.html"]http://www.focusonline.org/campuses.html[/url]

[rkwright]

Texas A&M has the second largest group of Catholic Students in the U.S. last I heard...

somewhere around 15,000. Extremely active parish.

[missionseeker]

Southern Catholic College is awesome. mostly. lol

the food isn't so grand and they don't offer a lot of majors yet but they do offer psychology, i'm not sure which concentrations and stuff but they do offer it.

www.southerncatholic.org

if you have any questions feel free to pm me.

[beata_virgo_maria]

[quote name='Revprodeji' post='1084666' date='Oct 4 2006, 11:53 PM']
La Crosse has an amazing Newman center with a great priest. I even drive more than an hour on sunday to see him.

What does your sister wanna study?
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She's undecided, but is looking at maybe psychology or pre-law. I don't think she really knows yet. Thanks for all the ideas though, they help a lot. It's been difficult since (sadly) most of the Catholic Universitys in the Pasific Northwest are not faithful at all to the Church's teachings. (At least all of the ones that we've looked into.)

[Theoketos]

Benedictine College is a VERY good School.

The University of Dallas is awesome.

[fearundercontrol]

[quote name='thedude' post='1084563' date='Oct 5 2006, 12:42 AM']
I actually met someone who wanted to do graduate school in counseling or something at Franciscan U. Apparantly you can study it from a Christian focus.
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Definitely. I've taken one psychology course there so far (which I LOVED), and my professor was great about putting certain things in light of Catholic teaching. One of my history professors did a really great job of that, as well. You should see the descriptions for the sociology courses. Many of them have a Christian focus!

I would not recommend Magdalen College. I have not heard good things about it. I'll have to find the names of one of the colleges I visited, because it definitely was a no, even though it sounded good from what I read.

Franciscan is wonderful. Your sister should do an overnight visit there. (Really she should do an overnight at any place she is considering. It gives you a much better taste of the college than a simple tour. My sister said that her overnight stay is what helped her rule out one of the colleges that she thought would actually be good.) Franciscan really does have a lot to offer, and I know both charismatics and non-charismatics who attend there. (I'm kind of in the middle myself.)

A friend of mine is attending Catholic University and loves it. I'll come back and give you more detailed feedback from her later.

If I come up with any others, I'll let you know.

Peace,
Allison

Edited October 5, 2006 by fearundercontrol

[Dudette]

Anybody know anything about Belmont Abbey College?

So far I'm applying to the University of St. Thomas (in Minnesota) and Benedictine College (gahh, I sooo wanna go there!) but I'm interested in hearing more about Belmont.

[Veritas]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1084457' date='Oct 4 2006, 08:17 PM']
Christendom College in Front Royal is a very faithful liberal arts college (and if your sister decides to become a nun they will forgive any loans she takes out with them)... they do not have a Newman Center, though.
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WOW!!! I didn't know about the nun thing -that is AWESOME!!! Does their website talk about that at all?

[quote name='notardillacid' post='1084467' date='Oct 4 2006, 08:32 PM']
University of Minnesota and University of North Dakota both have faithful Newman Centers
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Hmm.... what I heard most recently about the U of M Newman was NOT faithful -but I could be wrong... Anyone on campus?

[Veritas]

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If you're in the pacific northwest, especially, you should know about Thomas Aquinas in California -it's AWESOME! Totally orthodox. They have tons of alum who have gone on to religious life at places like Nashville Dominicans and the DSMME.

One of "America's Top Colleges" there are no textbooks and no lectures. .It's all Socratic Method and primary sources. Really, check-out their website:


[url="http://www.thomasaquinas.edu/about/index.htm"]http://www.thomasaquinas.edu/about/index.htm[/url]


If I could do it again, I would have loved to have gone there (although UST St. Paul, MN Catholic Studies is solid -the campus as a whole has some serious gaps -most notably in "Womens Studies, Justice and Peace, Sociology, Psychology, and English"). Theology and philosophy are getting better, just take these classes, along with English, from anyone who cross-teaches in Catholic Studies and they'll be solid, i.e. orthodox.

Edited October 13, 2006 by Veritas

[Tindomiel]

Notre Dame is becoming a lot more faithfully Catholic from what I hear, although they're by no means perfect yet. That's my first choice school though. They do have a lot more educational options than many smaller Catholic colleges, which is why I hope to go.

[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

[quote name='Tindomiel' post='1090691' date='Oct 13 2006, 03:39 PM']
Notre Dame is becoming a lot more faithfully Catholic from what I hear, although they're by no means perfect yet. That's my first choice school though. They do have a lot more educational options than many smaller Catholic colleges, which is why I hope to go.
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God bless you in the application process. It's really competitive now. I got deferred early action last year and waitlisted during the regular process. I got notice on my graduation day that they would not be using the waitlist. Maybe I'll try and transfer...

[Tindomiel]

[quote name='thedude' post='1090716' date='Oct 13 2006, 04:15 PM']
God bless you in the application process. It's really competitive now. I got deferred early action last year and waitlisted during the regular process. I got notice on my graduation day that they would not be using the waitlist. Maybe I'll try and transfer...
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Thanks. I am fairly worried about it, especially as they require homeschoolers to take a bunch of extra SAT IIs, and I haven't studied French for the foreign language one long enough to make me confident about it. But I have prayed several novenas to St. Therese about the matter, and she answered me overwhelmingly positively, so... God's will be done.

[Dudette]

[quote name='Dudette' post='1090572' date='Oct 13 2006, 11:09 AM']
Anybody know anything about Belmont Abbey College?

So far I'm applying to the University of St. Thomas (in Minnesota) and Benedictine College (gahh, I sooo wanna go there!) but I'm interested in hearing more about Belmont.
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bump for my question!