Freshmen outreach and Welcome Week are big parts of each year for the Catholic Campus Ministry at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg.
The budding Catholic Campus Ministry at Shenandoah University fired up the grill and hosted lawn games, raffles and Sunday Mass to open the fall academic semester last month in Winchester.
A block party, complete with mechanical bull-riding, and the opening student Mass both drew big crowds last month as the Catholic Campus Ministry at George Mason University in Fairfax kicked off the academic year.
Teens today need youth ministry more than ever.
According to directors of youth ministry across the diocese, teens need not only a place of belonging and community but also a space that encourages them to build a relationship with God. And if teens aren’t being taught the faith at home, youth ministry is all the more critical.
Marymount University in Arlington welcomed its largest incoming class in the institution’s history last month, setting new enrollment records.
From the very beginning of senior John-Paul Gutschke’s freshman year, he made a promise to himself: he would make a beautiful and inspiring film with the Christendom College community in Front Royal and have it shown in a local theater. Doing so would fulfill a lifelong dream while also pushing him closer to his long-term goal of being in film journalism after graduation.
In the Fall 2022 academic semester, Marymount University in Arlington will offer its students innovative, in-person bachelor’s degree programs in engineering. This comes as the institution expands its offerings of cutting-edge STEM (Science, Technology, Engineer and Math) programs while also gaining recognition as a hub in the national capital region for creating next-generation talent in highly skilled career fields.
Members of the scientific community from Washington, Maryland and Virginia gathered for a Gold Mass in Caldwell Chapel at The Catholic University of America in Washington.
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.
A couple weeks before my three sons left for college, I took each to supper. They chose the restaurant, reflecting their personalities: a Thai place, a steak house, a premium burger grill. I picked up the tab, but I wasn’t there for dinner. I wanted to talk.
