‘Faithful Catholic Colleges’ See Increase in Enrollment
“We keep hearing people refer to a ‘Newman movement’ because these faithful Catholic colleges just keep growing and setting the example of how to attract families today”
It turns out that people who want to go to a Catholic college, want the school to be actually Catholic and not progressive. Who knew?
The College Fix reports:
‘Faithful Catholic colleges’ see enrollment boom
“Faithful Catholic colleges” are seeing an increase an enrollment according to a new report.
The interest in theologically sound colleges comes due to the work of the Cardinal Newman Society, which publishes a guide of faithful colleges.
“We keep hearing people refer to a ‘Newman movement’ because these faithful Catholic colleges just keep growing and setting the example of how to attract families today,” President Patrick Reilly told The Daily Signal.
“According to a release from the organization, Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina saw its largest incoming class ever (1,654 students) for the 2023-2024 school year, a 10% increase from last year’s enrollment numbers,” the conservative news outlet reported.
“A light shines brightest in the darkness, and increasing numbers of Catholic families are choosing the faithful Catholic colleges recommended in The Cardinal Newman Society’s Newman Guide, ” Newman Society stated in a news release.
“Meanwhile, in Kansas, Benedictine College boasted a record undergraduate class of 2,213 students, marking a 121% growth for the college over the past two decades,” the Daily Signal reported.
Other schools including Catholic University of America and Christendom College have seen similar interest.
Conservative Catholic universities University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, and Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio both welcomed their largest freshmen classes in history.
Franciscan’s increased enrollment has reportedly caused a good problem – daily Masses are standing room only.
Thomas Aquinas College also reportedly hit its capacity, and as noted by Newman Guide, added a second campus in Massachusetts in 2019. The school has a history of producing priests and other religious vocations, such as nuns, as previously reported by The College Fix.
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If masses are SRO, can’t they just schedule an extra mass or two? Or do they like it that way?
There are synagogues that have a service scheduled every 15 minutes, all day long. (Regular morning services usually take about 45 minutes; having one every 15 minutes, with enough time in between for people to come in and out, requires using 4 rooms. Afternoon and night services are much shorter, so it’s feasible to do it with only two rooms, or even one.)
They used to say you can’t be more Catholic than the Pope. Unfortunately nowadays that’s very easy to do, and I’m starting to wonder about ursine excretory habits.
The ones you have heard of are not mentioned.
Notre Dame
Boston College
The Big East schools.
Those are not faithful Catholic, and it’s doubtful whether they’re Catholic in any sense at all.