NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 C1 nal Catholic R C2 AQUINAS COLLEGE Natio egiste The r’s C2 AUGUSTINE INSTITUTE C2 AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY C2 AVILA INSTITUTE C2 BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE C2 BENEDICTINE COLLEGE C2 CAMPION COLLEGE AUSTRALIA C2 CATHOLIC DISTANCE UNIVERSITY C2 THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA 2016 C3 CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE CA Y C3 DESALES UNIVERSITY THOLIC IDENTIT COLLEGE GUIDE C3 DIVINE MERCY UNIVERSITY C3 DONNELLY COLLEGE C3 FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE C3 HOLY CROSS COLLEGE C6 INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE C6 JOHN PAUL THE GREAT CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY C6 PONTIFICAL JOHN PAUL II INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES ON MARRIAGE AND FAMILY C6 LIVING WATER COLLEGE OF THE ARTS C6 MARYVALE INSTITUTE C6 MOUNT ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY C7 NEWMAN COLLEGE IRELAND C7 NORTHEAST CATHOLIC COLLEGE C7 OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY C7 SACRED HEART MAJOR SEMINARY C7 ST. GREGORY’S UNIVERSITY C8 SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE C8 SCHOOL OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES AT ST. CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARY his National Catholic Register resource is made possible through C8 THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE the cooperation of bishops, college presidents, our benefactors C8 THOMAS MORE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS and our advertisers. This year, 35 schools went on record in answer C8 UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS to these questions: C8 UNIVERSITY OF MARY T C8 UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS Text of the Questionnaire We Sent to Catholic Colleges C8 WALSH UNIVERSITY C8 WYOMING CATHOLIC COLLEGE 1. Did the president make the public “Profession of Faith” and take the “Oath of Fidelity”? 2. Is the majority of the board of trustees Catholic? 3. Is the majority of the faculty Catholic? 4. Do you publicly require all Catholic theology professors to have the mandatum? 5. Did all Catholic theology professors take the “Oath of Fidelity”? 6. Do you provide daily Mass and posted times (at least weekly) for individual confession? 7. Do you exclude advocates of abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, cloning or advocates of the redefinition of marriage as commencement speakers and/or recipients of honorary degrees? 8. Do you exclude sponsoring campus groups and clubs that are not in line with Catholic teaching (examples: abortion- and LGBT-related clubs)? If allowed, please explain. 9. Do you prohibit coed dorms? 10. Do your student health services prohibit referrals to abortion businesses? SHUTTERSTOCK Catholic Colleges Produce Abundant Vocations known Catholic universities have needed to order my life.” sure to engage in behaviors that go Graduates Serve slowed to a trickle. When presenting “the truth as a against the faith, but peer pressure God as Religious “It is the natural fruit of a faithful whole,” he continued, “considering instead which encourages holiness. It Catholic education,” said Anne For- religious life becomes a normal results in fostering vocations to the And Priests syth, TAC’s director of college rela- thing for young Catholic men and priesthood and religious life.” tions and assistant to the president. women to do.” Tom Sofio, a spokesman for Fran- BY JIM GRAVES “Our whole way of life at the col- Integrated into the curriculum ciscan, added, “Our students know lege encourages students to think was the sacramental life of the that priests and religious are valued n the 2007 issue of Seminarium, about their vocations.” Church; the college founders, for here just as much as students going a publication of the Vatican’s The college welcomes vocations example, intentionally scheduled into nursing or social work or any ICongregation for Catholic Edu- directors and religious community daily Mass at a time when nothing other major area we offer.” cation, Thomas Dillon, the late representatives to the campus to else was scheduled so that those on Father Bristol also participated in president of Thomas Aquinas Col- speak to students, and many male campus had no reason not to attend. Franciscan-sponsored missions in lege (TAC), authored an article out- students are part of TAC’s acolyte Father Kelly said, “When I was Third World countries, where he lining his view of why his lay- program. there, I saw students’ spiritual lives developed skills that help him in his administered, co-educational col- But a more significant factor, For- improve. Our students, for example, priesthood today. Volunteering in a lege had produced such a high num- syth believes, is the school’s thor- were sponsoring their own Rosaries Guatemala orphanage, for example, ber of vocations to the priesthood oughly Catholic environment, which or forming choirs so they had the helped him learn about working with and religious life (https://Thoma- includes four daily Masses and four chance to pray the Divine Office.” ENCOURAGING VOCATIONS. Thomas Aquinas College’s acolyte program, children, which helps him when he sAquinas.edu/catholic-life/voca- campus chaplains available to stu- Franciscan University of Steu- with Father Cornelius Buckley. Courtesy of Thomas Aquinas College works in his parish school. Engaging tions-flourish). dents for confession and spiritual benville, Ohio, has seen similar suc- in door-to-door evangelization in a Since TAC’s founding in 1971, direction. cess. It has a larger student body, since 2004. he said, “as you’re around so many mission in Jamaica, he continued, about 11% of the student body — cur- Father Brendan Kelly is a TAC with approximately 2,500 on-cam- Franciscan grad Father Mark Bris- young people on fire for their faith.” taught him that he must go out into rently numbering nearly 400 — have alum (Class of 1985) and a pastor and pus students, and was founded in tol was ordained for the Diocese of Fellow students and professors his neighborhood today to invite pursued vocations to the priesthood seminary professor for the Diocese 1946. It has 700-plus alumni who Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2016. He was posi- encourage vocations, Father Bristol people to church. or religious life; today, TAC has 65 of Lincoln, Neb. For him, one of the have become priests and religious, tively influenced in his vocation by said. He recalled a math class in The university’s vocations influ- ordained alumni and 45 religious sis- strongest factors leading him to the with about 400 still living today. Franciscan’s discernment program: which the professor began by talking ence reaches beyond its student ters and brothers who are alumni. priesthood was TAC’s curriculum. Among its programs to promote “We prayed together, learned about the saint of the day. “We saw body; Franciscan sponsors 23 TAC is one of a handful of small, As he said, “The college showed vocations, Franciscan offers an together and supported one another our professor living out his faith in a annual weekend youth conferences faithful Catholic colleges in the U.S. me the consistency of truth with annual vocations fair and a “Priestly as we discerned our vocations.” very public way.” in June and July in 13 states and two producing vocations at a time when the Catholic life — and that this Discernment Program,” which has The program is enhanced by the In Franciscan student households, Canadian provinces that draw more vocations from far larger and better- truth is something to which I prepared 115 men for ordination liturgical and social life on campus, he continued, “There is no peer pres- CONTINUES ON PAGE C4 NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER, SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 C2 ere are the 35 schools that each answered 10 teaching in seminaries. Coed Dorms: We have six residence Questionnaire Sources questions about their college’s institutional halls. Five of the six are single-sex, and only one is coed. It is reserved standards and campus culture. A check mark for upperclassmen, and each floor is he Catholic Identity College Questionnaire offers objective questions about a university’s Catholic identity. indicates a positive answer to our Catholic divided by men and women. Visita- tion policies are enforced in this hall, We designed the questionnaire so that a “YES” answer reflects essential elements of the renewal of Cath- H identity question. Schools’ comments expanding upon a as they are in all of our residential olic identity called for by Pope St. John Paul II’s 1990 apostolic constitution on higher education, Ex Corde “Yes” answer and explaining a “No” answer are included, halls. This upperclassmen residence Ecclesiae (Out of the Heart of the Church), its 2000 “Application to the United States,” canon law and other hall provides those students who live T as well as additional comments. View online at NCRegis- there an opportunity to demonstrate relevant Church documents. ter.com / “Resources.” the ability to live in an adult commu- nity while at the same time upholding The Institution 3 NO COED DORMS themselves and their colleagues to n President’s Oath: Canon 833: The president of a Catholic university is personally bound to make a profession of excellence and virtue. Aquinas College N/A HEALTH SERVICES OKAY faith, according to the formula approved by the Apostolic See, in the presence of the chancellor or diocesan bishop or a delegate at the beginning of the term of office. 4210 Harding Pike School’s Comments: Benedictine College The “Profession of Faith” and the “Oath of Fidelity,” Acta Apostolicae Sedis, 1989: The obligation of a special oath Nashville, TN 37205 Institution: Ave Maria University is 1020 N. Second St. of fidelity has been extended to presidents of Catholic universities. (615) 297-7545; toll-free (800) 649- a Catholic liberal arts institution of 9956 higher learning devoted to Mary the Atchison, KS 66002 n Catholic Board: U.S. Application: To the extent possible, the majority of the board of trustees should be Catho- AquinasCollege.edu Mother of God, inspired by St. John (913) 367-5340 lics committed to the Church. Enrollment: 384 (fall 2015) Paul II and Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, Benedictine.edu n Catholic Faculty: U.S.