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St. John’s Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mass attendance up at various colleges in wake of Charlie Kirk assassination

Sep 15, 2025

By Amira Abuzeid

In what some are calling “the Charlie Kirk effect,” people across the nation have decided to go to church since... Read more

Patrick Callahan, director of the Newman Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture, founded in 2015 by Bishop James Conley for education in the New Evangelization

This college’s Newman Institute is attracting non-Catholics with its ‘Catholicism 101’ class

Dec 18, 2022

Almost half of the students who signed up for the Catholicism 101 class at the University of Nebraska’s Newman Institute... Read more

This program wants to help incoming college students keep their faith

Jun 18, 2018

For Catholic high school students on their way to college, faith runs the risk of being lost in the shuffle... Read more