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Going off to college is one of the scariest and most exciting parts of young adulthood. Having gone through it recently myself, and now working closely with college students as a FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) missionary, I have found that the first few weeks of a new fall semester are unlike any other experience. Freshmen in college have a unique opportunity to begin to split from their families and to decide what is truly important to them. For the first time in their lives, they have a much freer rein to do what they want. They have so many new choices in front of them: what to study, how to spend their free time, what they will eat for dinner and, more importantly, what faith (if any) they will practice.
The Class of 2025 the largest in the history of the college.
WASHINGTON — More than 40 percent of Trinity Washington University's full-time undergraduate students opened their emails from the university July 23 to learn they will start the school year with a clean financial slate, because the university paid off their outstanding debts.
A new program helps students work with marginalized communities.
Over the summer, students from Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington participated in two different service learning camps — Food-for-Life and Housing-for-Life — where they volunteered for three days at local nonprofits and participated in community initiatives.
A growing number of students have been taking a timeout from academics for a year to gain hands-on learning experience in the world outside the classroom.
NAIROBI, Kenya — As they marked the Season of Creation, Catholics in Africa celebrated the Congo Basin as the second "lung" of the earth and called for its protection to fight climate change.
After Mass Sept. 14, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, a young man told his mother he was thinking of joining the priesthood. During a healing service following the Mass, the 14-year-old and his mother approached the altar. There, at the foot of the cross, Deacon Leo Flynn prayed over the young man and anointed him with blessed oil. Later that night, Deacon Flynn asked the shy teenager if he wanted to be a priest.
The Stella Marina ministry helps parishioners create 1,200 supply kits for newborns to be sent to Haiti.
