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While the future of Catholic higher education tends to look increasingly bleak, with widespread abandonment of the Faith, financial scandal, and an overall secularization, a solidly Catholic liberal arts college is being created in San Francisco by a core group of students, teachers, administrators, and friends of the now-closed Campion College. The idea of a new Catholic institute of higher education started during the dismantling of Campion College of San Francisco, a two-year Catholic liberal arts college that announced to its students and faculty in June that it was closing due to the cessation of funding by the Guadalupe Associates,...

Who Is Catholic?New conservative colleges say existing institutions lead students away from the true faith Chart: New Conservative Catholic Colleges Colloquy Live: Read the transcript of a live, online discussion with David O'Brien, a historian of American Catholicism at the College of the Holy Cross, about the staunchly conservative Roman Catholic colleges that have been recently established in the United States. Easy-to-print version E-mail this article Subscribe By BURTON BOLLAGNaples, Fla. Every evening at 9 o'clock a group of students and faculty members gathers between two four-story student residences -- one for men, the other for women -- and sets off on...

  Physician Assisted Suicide & the Future of DemocracyFriday, October 3rd, 7:30 pm A talk by Professor Raymond Dennehy of Campion CollegeProfessor Dennehy will discuss euthanasia, covering all aspects of the topic: how the procedure nullifies freedom and the right to life, and is thus anti-democratic; and how pre-Nazi Germany and contemporary Holland offer ample evidence for the slippery slope leading from voluntary to involuntary euthanasia.Raymond Dennehy has debated abortion, euthanasia, and homosexuality on television, radio, and university campuses for over 40 years. He is the author of Reason and Dignity and Anti-Abortionist At Large, and was honored in 1999...

Reassignment of Fr. Fessio, S.J., Editor of Ignatius Press Dear Friends of Ignatius Press, I have been assigned by my Jesuit superiors to become associate chaplain at Santa Teresita Hospital in Duarte, California, beginning May 1, 2002. At the same time they confirmed my ongoing mission as director of Ignatius Press. I am to have no role, public or private, in the latest initiative of Ignatius Press, Campion College of San Francisco, which is a wholly owned subsidiary. The Board of Directors of Guadalupe Associates, Inc. (which does business as Ignatius Press) has elected as President and Chief Operating Officer,...

SAN FRANCISCO, (CWNews.com) -- Father Joseph Fessio, the Jesuit priest who founded Ignatius Press, has been reassigned to serve as a chaplain in a hospital in Los Angeles. Although Father Fessio will be allowed to continue his work as a director of Ignatius Press-- which is based in San Francisco-- he has been ordered under obedience not to play a role in Campion College, the new Catholic liberal-arts institution being founded by Ignatius Press. Father Fessio received his new assignment from the California Jesuit province after a dispute with the administration of the University of San Francisco (USF), a Jesuit...