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Waking up the Catholic echoes

Our Take. First and foremost, a university exists to enlighten minds of its young students

Theology courses still at the core of Catholic curriculum

Catholic College Special Section article. By Gerald Korson. They remain vital to sustaining a school’s identity, students’ faith at institutions of higher learning

Thank you, Notre Dame

This column has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. Controversy gives us chance to tackle issues of identity, authority and academic freedom

Teresa Tomeo: A wake-up call from the pope

We must get out of spiritual comfort zones and take a stand against the moral relativism of today. (Subscription required)

Risque play reignites academic freedom debate

Performances of 'The Vagina Monologues' at 19 Catholic campuses, including Notre Dame, are seen as a capitulation to secular culture

Questions remain after Notre Dame

This column has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. Debates over identity, authority and abortion continue to reverberate among U.S. Catholics

Pro-life students face hostility on college campuses

By Emily Stimpson. Opposition may come from administration or fellow students, but national group can provide assistance

Our Take: A plea not to blend into background

Just as the Church favors vibrancy, so, too, should the faithful stand out — especially in an increasingly secular society

Northeast faithful losing connection to Church

By Brian Fraga. Region with rich Catholic heritage experiences low Mass attendance, diminished sense of sin.

New Catholic University president wants school to be bastion of intellect, virtue

By Russell Shaw. John Garvey, the school’s third lay leader, takes helm at a university with a strong Catholic identity. (Subscription required)

New 'Catholic identity' bishop for Notre Dame

By John Norton. After school commencement controversy, young bishop-scholar pledges ‘close pastoral relationship’

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: JFK's Houston speech

His influential Sept. 12, 1960, address to pastors reflected a mind-set that prevailed among Catholics

Meet three Catholic retirement communities

In Focus article. By Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller. Religious identity, Catholic sacraments, access to priests, community life at center of seniors’ homes

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor for May 3, 2009

Letters to the Editor

Lettters to the Editor about Mass attendance, Islam, sports, and Catholic identity

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor about higher education, child abuse, Catholic identity and welfare.

In Focus: What every Catholic needs to know about the Church's uniqueness

This article has free access. By Mark Shea. The Church’s uniqueness necessarily involves it with all human belief systems of the world. Here’s how

In Focus: Leading churchman explains why Catholic schools matter

By Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan. Experts in the field respond to Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s remarks about how to ‘recover our nerve and promote our schools for the 21st century'.

Identity tempest

This editorial column is free for all visitors. How Americans Catholics can turn this crisis of Catholic identity into a 21st-century success story.

Hospital debate sets stage for bishops' response

By Ann Carey. Push back by Catholic facility in Arizona and large trade group highlights issue of who speaks for Church. (Subscription required)

Helping colleges, universities boost their Catholic identity

By Emily Stimpson. Recently relocated center aims to promote truth of faith, academic excellence at Catholic schools. (Subscription required)

Harvard Knights of Columbus sail against secular tide

By Dennis Poust. Council offers its members spiritually affirming environment at secular school

Greg Erlandson: Extra, read all about Catholic media outreach efforts

In a rapidly changing media world, the Catholic press must keep up in order to fulfill its mission

Greg Erlandson: As the world turns

Back to the future? A middle-aged Catholic sees something familiar in next generation of priests

Fostering American Catholic intellectual life

By Russell Shaw. Catholic University president explains importance of forming good people as well as good thinkers. (Subscription required)

Experts respond to Archbishop Dolan's remarks on Catholic schools

In Focus article. Experts weigh in on the future of Catholic schools. (Subscription required)

Error of Americanism

By Russell Shaw. Notre Dame's invitation to Obama fits pattern of cultural assimilation among U.S. Catholics

Editorial: Weakened bishops

The CHA statement was an astonishingly direct attack on the bishop’s authority.

Editorial: Secular expectations

‘There is a difficult path to tread between fundamentalism and a lack of courage.’

Editorial: Purely unafraid

‘Those of you who are believers long to tell your friends that the treasure dwelling within you is meant to be shared, it raises questions, it calls for reflection.’

Editorial: Catholic school conundrum

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. The Church ‘never looks for reasons to turn anyone away from a Catholic education’ but needs to have discretion to create an environment conducive to its aims.

Don't let Notre Dame's decision steal your joy

By Teresa Tomeo. Pro-lifers step up fight for human life in face of Notre Dame's invitation to the president

Column: Hospital's dangerous precedent

By Leonard J. Nelson lll. Hospital’s defiance of bishop over morality of procedures sets stage for more secularization.

Catholicism in Brazil finds itself at crossroads

By Alejandro Bermudez. Fewer Brazilians call themselves Catholic, but new charismatic movements attract young faithful

Bishop D'Arcy: What the Notre Dame controversy should teach us

By Bishop John M. D'Arcy. Bishop says Catholic universities must abandon "defensive, absolutist and narrow" vision toward academic freedom

Academic freedom and Catholic identity

In an exclusive interview, Holy Cross Father John Jenkins defends his controversial stand

A return to meatless Fridays?

By Emily Stimpson. As bishops in England and Wales reintroduce the penance, a look at why it matters for all Catholics

A Pastor’s View: Value of Parochial Schools

By Neil Wack, C.S.C. A parochial school adds to a parish's "Catholic identity." (Subscription required)

A new translation for a Church that's reclaiming its identity

By Greg Erlandson. Decades in the making, new text comes at a moment in our history that is a unique convergence

A new landmark moment for U.S. Catholicism?

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. The Notre Dame controversy is emblematic of a tension in the U.S. Catholic Church that dates back at least a century

A New Day in the Church in the U.S.?

By Bevil Bramwell, O.M.I. The sexual abuse scandals could and should lead us to a recovery and deepening of our Catholic identity.

‘Live and let live’

By Msgr. Owen F. Campion. This has long been prevailing attitude of Catholics, but it will not serve them well at election time