Christendom College News

Christendom College honored Archbishop Charles Brown and Mrs. Anne Carroll during its commencement weekend, May 10-12.

Christendom College Theology Professor Eric Jenislawski is delivering a two-part lecture series on "Faith Alone? A Catholic Perspective on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans."

Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia, recently announced that it will hold its summer conference this July focusing on Catholic history. The College indicated that the event will be in memory of the late Catholic historian and founder of Christendom, Dr. Warren H. Carroll.

Christendom College has announced that Archbishop Charles Brown, Papal Nuncio to Ireland, will deliver the commencement address on May 11. In addition, Mrs. Anne Carroll will be honored with an award.

"Despite assurances from the Administration to the contrary, this mandate would still insist that every employee at Catholic universities and colleges be enrolled in an insurance regiment that includes abortion causing drugs," said Monsignor Stuart Swetland.

The director of English language programming for Vatican Radio, Sean Patrick Lovett, is scheduled to speak on "Evangelization in the Year of Faith" at Christendom College on April 15.

Five Newman Guide universities made Kiplinger Personal Finance Magazine's Top 100 Private College list as "best values."

Christendom College President Dr. Timothy O'Donnell and students from the school were on-hand in Rome for the election of Pope Francis.

A large portion of the Christendom College student body recently sacrificed their spring breaks to spend time serving the poor on four different mission trips, the College reported.

Christendom College President Dr. Timothy O'Donnell was a guest on EWTN Radio's Celtic Connections on February 23.

In response to Pope Benedict XVI's resignation, several Catholic university presidents participated in an exclusive Cardinal Newman Society symposium examining the Holy Father's legacy on Catholic higher education.

Nuns and friars will descend on the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia later this week as Christendom College hosts its annual vocations fair from February 22-24. 

As part of the Institute of Catholic Culture, Christendom College professors are offering free lectures during the month of February.

Catholic university presidents and faculty reacted with surprise and admiration towards Monday's news of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation. Others took the opportunity to attack his legacy.

College of Saint Mary Magdalen President George Harne pledged his fidelity to Pope Benedict XVI at the third annual Ex Corde Presidents' Roundtable and Forum at Christendom College.

Francis Cardinal Arinze, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, spoke on "The Year of Faith and the Apostolate of the Laity" at Christendom College on Monday, February 4, as part of the college's Major Speakers Program. The talk was based upon Cardinal Arinze's forthcoming book that examines the role of the laity in transforming the culture.

Francis Cardinal Arinze, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, will deliver a talk entitled, The Year of Faith and the Apostolate of the Laity, to students and faculty at Christendom College

While official figures haven’t yet been released, organizers estimate that between 500,000 and 600,000 people participated in the Jan. 25 March for Life in Washington, D.C.

On February 1-2, Christendom College will welcome Catholic college and university presidents to its Front Royal, Va., campus as it hosts the Ex corde EcclesiaePresidents’ Roundtable.

Thomistic scholar and author, Rev. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., delivered the annual St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture on January 28 at Christendom College.

A recent study commissioned by the U.S. bishops demonstrates the importance of Catholic education in people’s choosing to enter a religious order.

This week’s 40th anniversary of the tragic Roe v. Wade ruling is marked by the participation tomorrow of several faithful Catholic colleges and universities in the Washington, D.C., March for Life.

Diocese of Arlington, Va. Bishop Paul S. Loverde recently celebrated Mass at Christendom College and blessed the radio tower and transmitter of the school’s new Catholic radio station.

Thomistic scholar and author, Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., will deliver the annual St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture on Monday, January 28.

Christendom College is announcing the launch of its new EWTN Catholic radio station WXDM 90.3 FM. The station officially started uninterrupted broadcasting on Friday, November 30, according to a press release.

Cardinal Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, will serve as the Chairman of the Honorary Dinner Committee for Christendom College’s 35th Anniversary Gala dinner.

More than 225 students, faculty, and staff at Christendom College protested prayerfully at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic this past weekend — making it the biggest abortion protest in the university’s 35-year history.

Many Catholic colleges and universities are taking part in the “Year of Faith” proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI, with spiritual and academic activities aimed at strengthening faith on campus, according to a new report published by The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS).

The Cardinal Newman Society today released the 2012-2013 edition of The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College with significant new features, as well as a new companion magazine for Catholic high school students and their parents titled My Future, My Faith.

Three colleges that appear in The Newman Guide for their fidelity to Catholic teaching were recently honored by the American Council of College Trustees and Alumni for the strength of their curriculum. Many others received high marks as well.

The Cardinal Newman Society has signed and helped organize Catholic college signers for a court brief in support of lawsuits filed against the Obama administration by Belmont Abbey College and Wheaton College.

Just days after he was named the new Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, Bishop James Conley urged students at Harvard University to heed Blessed John Henry Newman’s warnings about the dangers of moral relativism, according to EWTN.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has named a former Christendom College official to lead the bishops’ Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development, which oversees the troubled Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).

Christendom College president Dr. Timothy O’Donnell traveled to Ireland last month to deliver three lectures at the 50th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin.

On a recent episode of EWTN’s “Sunday Night Prime,” Father Benedict Groeschel interviewed Christendom College graduate Deacon Sabatino Carnazzo about his apostolate, the Institute of Catholic Culture.

"Community and Family in Contemporary American Political Discourse"

What a missionary, a Norbertine and an Irish priest of 54 years have in common

New chaplain was missionary priest in DR for 5 years.

Benedictine College hired Christendom's former Dean of Student Life.

O'Donnell: "The laity is called to excercise their apostolate as a leaven in the world."

The college is "joyfully Catholic."

New concentration fits in well with Theology

Miracles Exhibit Visits Christendom

Two of the older colleges included in The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College: What to Look For and Where to Find It have announced that they have record enrollment numbers for the 2007-08 academic year.

Year-Long Celebration to Include Francis Cardinal Arinze, Archbishop Raymond Burke and Father Benedict Groeschel

The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, NH recently announced a round of faculty and staff appointments