The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic CollegeThe Center for the Advancement of Catholic Higher EducationRENOVOThe Catholic Higher Education BlogThe Cardinal Newman Society"...a public conscience for Catholic higher education,"Father Matthew Lamb, Ave Maria University"...a voice crying out in the wilderness,"Father Benedict Groeschel, CFR"...simply one of the most effective Catholic apostolates in America,"Brian St. Paul, editor InsideCatholic.com
(8/19/09) Including a superior general, a wartime military chaplain, and a well-known television bishop.
The Catholic University of America (CUA), in Washington, D.C., is unique among Catholic institutions of higher education in that three of its alumni currently have cases open by the Catholic Church to consider them for sainthood. All three were priests and are called Servants of God by the Church. Rev. Theodore Daniel Foley, C.P. graduated from CUA in 1944 and was eventually elected superior general of the Passionist order. Rev. Emil Kapaun, who graduated from CUA in 1948, was a military chaplain who displayed great self-sacrifice and died as a prisoner in the Korean War. The well-known prelate and television personality Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen graduated from CUA in 1920. Archbishop Sheen was one of the American Catholic Church's leading scholars, evangelists, preachers and missions fundraisers. Read more about the virtuous lives and causes for these possible Saints at CUA’s special “Year for Priests” website. The Catholic University of America is featured in The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College for its strong Catholic identity. Now a free online resource, the 2nd edition of The Newman Guide will be published in September 2009. Source: The Catholic University of America
