Because of the high stakes involved for students, the Cardinal Newman Society is launching a campus outreach program based on Catholic teachings on sexual ethics, human life, marriage, love, and personal responsibility.

The program’s mission is twofold:

• Build cultures on Catholic campuses that support, by way of Catholic values, an assumption of chastity.

• Provide students on Catholic campuses a clear understanding and respect for Church teachings on sexuality, marriage and human life.

The Cardinal Newman Society will seek to fulfill this mission by working toward the following, measurable goals:

• Demonstrate significant reductions in risky and immoral student behavior including sex outside of marriage, homosexual activity, and abortion.

• Demonstrate significant increases in student support for Church teachings on sexuality, marriage, and human life.

• Demonstrate improved policies and expanded programs on Catholic campuses designed to achieve the above goals, with increasing support and participation among Catholic college and university officials, faculty, and staff.

A key aspect of this program will be the development and collection of measurable data to establish benchmarks and track progress toward these goals.