Search Results

  • Section

  • Sort By

  • Reset

Msgr. John C. Cregan, former pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church in Alexandria, was awarded the Academic Circle of Excellence at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., March 24.  

In the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and all the popes since, we hear over and over again that evangelization is the primary task of the church. In fact, in 1990, St. John Paul II declared, "I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the church's energies to a new evangelization."

We recently added the papers of Father Richard John Neuhaus to our university library's collection of important figures in American Catholic history. 

The Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus is the defining event in our history. In that moment, humanity shared in Christ’s victory over death. The empty tomb on the first Easter allows us to faithfully proclaim that we believe in the “resurrection of the body and life everlasting” each Sunday, a certain truth that fills us with hope as we prepare for sanctification in this life for the next. It is this event that allows us to proclaim confidently with St. Paul, “O death, where is your sting!” (1 Cor 15:55).

Popular