| |  | Founded in 1993, the Cardinal Newman Society is dedicated to renewing and strengthening Catholic identity at America's 224 Catholic colleges and universities. The Society focuses its work on assisting students, alumni and school officials; urging fidelity to the magisterium of the Catholic Church; and researching activities both on campus and in the classroom. The Society is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit organization supported by more than 20,000 private individuals, corporations and foundations. |
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| | | Patrick Reilly, President (Biography)
Thomas Mead, Executive Vice President
Joseph Esposito, Director of Research
Evangeline Jones, Dep. Director of Research
Timothy Post, Director of Development
Adam Wilson, Outreach Manager
Cindy Laird, Executive Assistant |
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| | | J. Laurence McCarty, Chairman
Vice President, Serra Club of Arlington. Former Chairman, Christendom College. Retired Vice President, Prudential Insurance Company. Alumnus, College of the Holy Cross and Boston College Law School. Knight, Sovereign Order of Malta.
Patrick J. Reilly, President
Senior Fellow, Capital Research Center. Former Executive Director, Citizens for Educational Freedom. Former Program Analyst, U.S. Department of Education. Alumnus, Fordham University.
Gerrald Giblin, Treasurer
Board of Directors, Catholic Standard. Board of Directors, Men's Leadership Forum. Founding volunteer, Catholic Alliance. Retired marketing executive, IBM Corp. Alumnus, College of the Holy Cross. Knight, Sovereign Order of Malta.
Connaught Marshner, Secretary
Nonprofit consultant. Former Chairman, National Pro-Family Coalition. Former Career Development Director, Christendom College.
L. Brent Bozell III, Director
Founder and President, Media Research Center. Founder and President, Parents Television Council. Founder, CNSNews.com. Executive Director, Conservative Victory Committee. 1998 Alumnus of the Year, University of Dallas. |
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| | | | In Idea of a University, John Henry Cardinal Newman argued that the university is dedicated to the search and transmission of all truth, including the fundamental truths revealed by Christ through His Church. Newman's thought and Pope John Paul II's 1990 Apostolic Constitution on Catholic higher education, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, guide all efforts of the Cardinal Newman Society.
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| | | Today's Catholic university or college certainly can be authentically Catholic. However, the Catholic identity of many Catholic institutions of higher education in the United States has become increasingly clouded and the essential elements of Catholic education have been discarded for the sake of a mistaken notion of academic freedom. Many Catholic colleges and universities have pursued a secular model as the university ideal to a point where their own Catholic identity and mission within the Church is no longer clear.
Our patron, John Henry Cardinal Newman, was a great defender of the principle that the academic nature of a university is strengthened by a strong Catholic foundation and adherence to the teachings of the Church. His Holiness Pope John Paul II further developed this message in 1990 in his Apostolic Constitution on Catholic higher education, Ex Corde Ecclesiae (From the Heart of the Church).
The fundamental purpose of a university education is to seek and discover truth. Through this discovery, man comes to an understanding of God, himself, and the created order. Catholic higher education provides students with the unique opportunity to seek understanding through Faith and Reason, made complete by a free obedience to the Eternal Law. Gaudium de veritate, the joy of truth's discovery, is the treasure entrusted to the Catholic university.
It is with this conviction that the Cardinal Newman Society was established in 1993 to promote awareness within the Catholic academic community of the nature and value of a truly Catholic university education and to seek the faithful implementation of Ex Corde Ecclesiae. |
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