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Fr. Jude DeAngelo’s departure comes after the Franciscan priest took fire last year for blessing an icon that depicted George Floyd as Jesus.WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — The Catholic University of America (CUA) announced Tuesday that Fr. Jude DeAngelo, OFM Conv., will no longer serve as university chaplain starting this summer. In a letter to the university community, CUA President John Garvey wrote that Fr. DeAngelo, a Conventual Franciscan who has served as chaplain for 12 years, “will be concluding his time as University Chaplain this summer.” “In his order it is customary to move priests to new assignments after a set...

William Rainford suspended for tweeting his doubts about Kavanaugh accuser Julie SwetnickWASHINGTON (ChurchMilitant.com) - A dean at the Catholic University of America (CUA) has been suspended after tweeting in favor of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. William Rainford, dean of the National Catholic School of Social Service (NCSSS), tweeted on Sept. 26 from his official university Twitter account: Swetnick is 55 y/o, Kavanaugh is 52 y/o. Since when do senior girls hang with freshmen boys? If it happened when Kavanaugh was a senior, Swetnick was an adult drinking with&by her admission, having sex with underage boys. In another universe,...

The president of the Catholic University of America, the university in Washington founded by U.S. bishops, says it’s going to take years to rebuild trust following recent sexual abuse scandals in the church. And he says non-clergy Catholics will be essential to the process.“It’s difficult to overstate the impact that this has on them on the moral authority of the church. And that’s something that is going to take decades to recover,” said John Garvey, president of Catholic University.Calling On Non-Clergy Catholics To Keep Church AccountableGarvey wrote a letter over the weekend encouraging students to prepare themselves “to take on key roles...

A traditional marriage student group defended its right to exist at a Catholic university Thursday after LGBT students claimed they were a hate group.The student members of Love Saxa, a Georgetown University group which promotes healthy relationships through traditional marriage and premarital abstinence, defended themselves in a mandatory hearing against the complaints of two students, Justin Gasman, the president of GUPride, and Jasmin Ouseph, who claimed that Love Saxa promoted hostility toward LGBT individuals by promoting a view of marriage in line with Catholic doctrine.Amelia Irvine, president of Love Saxa, had to defend the group against the charges, referred Oct....

The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights confirmed that it is investigating allegations that Catholic University violated the human rights of Muslim students by not allowing them to form a Muslim student group and by not providing them rooms without Christian symbols for their daily prayers. The investigation alleges that Muslim students “must perform their prayers surrounded by symbols of Catholicism – e.g., a wooden crucifix, paintings of Jesus, pictures of priests and theologians which many Muslim students find inappropriate.” A spokesperson for the Office of Human Rights told Fox News they had received a 60-page complaint against the private...

Here’s a happy little piece of news: At a time when several large universities — including George Washington University here in DC — have begun to embrace not just coed, but gender-neutral housing, the Catholic University of America this year initiates a plan to convert its coed dorms into single-sex residences once again. This fall, entering CUA freshmen will be assigned to residence halls in which they won’t have to worry quite so much about meeting a member of the opposite sex in the hallway walking back from the bathroom. The following year, the change will extend to both freshman...

Absolutely brilliant! Please check my comments below. From today's Wall Street Journal:Why We're Going Back to Single-Sex Dorms Student housing has became a hotbed of reckless drinking and hooking up. By JOHN GARVEY My wife and I have sent five children to college and our youngest just graduated. Like many parents, we encouraged them to study hard and spend time in a country where people don't speak English. Like all parents, we worried about the kind of people they would grow up to be. We may have been a little unusual in thinking it was the college's responsibility to worry...

<p>MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Marquette University in Milwaukee will begin offering domestic partner benefits to its employees beginning next year.</p> <p>The move by the Catholic, Jesuit university comes about a year after the school rescinded a job offer to a lesbian and scholar at Seattle University. Marquette officials said at the time, rescinding the job offer to Jodi O'Brien had nothing to do with her sexual orientation. But, it triggered heated debate on campus over the issue.</p>

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Polling data form 2009 shows opinion on abortion moving in the pro-life indication and if the attendance at the upcoming Students for Life convention is any indication, the numbers are right on track. Students for Life of America will host a record number of students at their annual pro-life conference. The event, on Saturday, January 23rd at the Catholic University of America in Washington, has been sold out for the last two years.But SFLA is expecting a record number of registrants this year from nearly two dozen states and three countries.Kristan Hawkins, executive director of Students...

The funeral service for former White House spokesman Tony Snow will be open to the public. The service will be held Thursday morning at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of Catholic University in Washington, D.C.The White House announced earlier today that President and Mrs. Bush would attend the service.Details as announced by the Shrine:Mass of Christian Burial for Tony Snow Thursday, 17 July 2008 10:00 am - Funeral Mass - Great Upper Church Open to the Public Doors open at 8:00 a.m. (Will Need to Pass through Security Checkpoint Magnetometers) The Most...

Pro-Abortion John Kerry to Speak at Catholic University of America Invitation violates principle unanimously agreed upon by US Bishops in 2004 By Hilary White WASHINGTON, September 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Catholic University of America (CUA) has invited former presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry to speak on environmentalism and the Iraq war this semester, despite initial opposition by the office of University Center, Student Programs and Events (UCSPE). The Tower, the campus paper of Catholic University, said the UCSPE had initially objected to Kerry's appearance, saying there is an "unwritten" campus rule banning political candidates during an election year. Kerry, who...

May 12, 2007 White House Press Secretary Tony Snow Encourages 2007 Graduates to Love. Addresses CUA's 118th Annual Commencement. WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Tony Snow gave the newest graduates of The Catholic University of America several rules for living — emphasizing the power of love and prayer — at the university’s 118th Annual Commencement exercises, held May 12, 2007. “Think not only of what it means to love but what it means to be loved,” Snow said in his commencement address. “I have a lot of experience with that. Since the news that I have cancer again, I’ve...

The Catholic University of America continues to come under fire from abortion advocates and the NAACP after the college prevented students from organizing an official campus chapter of the nation's oldest civil rights group. CUA officials cite the NAACP's pro-abortion position and the existence of two other minority-oriented groups. On Friday, about 40 students protested at the university carrying signs such as "Is C-U-A the last plantation?" NAACP officials, supported the protesters and said that CUA's decision amounts to a quota system. Last month, CUA and NAACP officials met to discuss the situation. Though both sides met to discuss the...

(CNSNews.com) - Catholic University in Washington, D.C., is putting its principles ahead of the NAACP's protests. Following a discussion with disgruntled civil rights leaders on Wednesday, Catholic University is still refusing to approve a student NAACP chapter. School officials note that Catholic University already has two groups that defend minorities' civil rights -- but unlike the NAACP, those two groups do not support abortion. Press reports said that Catholic University's president, the Rev. David O'Connell, will discuss the situation with students when they return to campus in the fall. NAACP President and CEO Kweisi Mfume has threatened to sue Catholic...

By CANDACE SMITH, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The president of the NAACP is criticizing a decision by Catholic University of America not to recognize a chapter of the civil rights group on campus. "It is outright discrimination and intolerance all rolled into one," NAACP President Kweisi Mfume said Friday, just outside the campus and surrounded by about 20 activists and student chapter leaders from other universities. AP Photo He said it was the first time in decades that a university had not allowed a student chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (news - web...

WASHINGTON -- A Roman Catholic cardinal seen as a top contender to succeed Pope John Paul II has sparked student and faculty protests at Georgetown University with a remark he made about homosexuals in a commencement speech. A letter protesting the speech by Cardinal Francis Arinze was signed by about 70 faculty members at the Jesuit university and delivered Wednesday to Jane McAuliffe, dean of the university's school of arts and sciences. McAuliffe, a specialist in Islamic studies, invited Arinze -- president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue -- to speak on Christian-Muslim relations at the school's graduation...

When the administrators of Catholic University sought a cultural event for the inauguration of the Edward J. Pryzbyla student center, they reached back to a work commissioned for the opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971. Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" has been the focus of a week-long symposium, culminating in two performances last weekend in the Great Room of the new building. The title doesn't tell half the story. Based on the Catholic liturgy interspersed with words by Bernstein, "Godspell" lyricist Stephen Schwartz and even four lines by Paul Simon, it's far more accurately described by its subtitle: "A Theater Piece...