Lynne Robinson plans to retire in August, capping a 42-year career at the Catholic university in Emmitsburg during which she touched countless lives throughout the athletic department.
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Why Harrison Butker’s commencement address was a solid ‘goal’
Directly addressing today’s loneliness epidemic, the Kansas City Chiefs kicker proceeded to offer the class of 2023 some powerful countercultural advice.
NDMU, St. John join forces with programs for graduate students
Notre Dame of Maryland University continued its push to diversify its educational options.
Catholic universities must be missionary in spirit, pope says
Catholic universities must be outward looking and prepare their students to engage with the world’s problems rather than teaching rigid ideas, Pope Francis said.
‘Eye-opening experience’ the church needs is found in Eucharist, says U.S. apostolic nuncio
Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, said he is “convinced that the church today is in need of an eye-opening experience,” similar to the experience of the two disciples who encountered Jesus along the road to Emmaus following the Resurrection, but who did not recognize him until they shared a meal.
Notre Dame of Maryland University partners with Mount St. Mary’s University to address nursing shortage
In response to nursing shortages growing more critical every year in Maryland, the leaders of Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore and Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg have signed a partnership to enable graduates of Mount St. Mary’s to earn their nursing degrees.
Phone-in active shooter threats at Catholic universities, other colleges part of ‘swatting’ trend
Shelter-in-place orders were issued April 13 at two Catholic universities in Washington, with all-clears declared shortly thereafter, as part of an apparent wave of false threats made against schools throughout the nation the same day and in recent weeks.
Maryland entrepreneurs get support for start-ups at local Catholic universities
Two area Catholic universities are doing their part to cultivate entrepreneurism. Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore and Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg both offer programs and resources that are helping support the next generation of innovators.
Catholic Charities’ William J. McCarthy Jr. named Loyola’s Business Leader of the Year
Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business and Management has named William J. McCarthy Jr., executive director of Catholic Charities of Baltimore, as its 2023 Business Leader of the Year.
Bishop calls ‘reproductive justice’ lecture series with abortion doula ‘scandal,’ ‘unworthy’ of Notre Dame university
A lecture series on “reproductive justice” at the University of Notre Dame is advancing “activist propaganda” rather than “conducting a neutral inquiry or exploring the debates within this field,” Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, in whose diocese the university operates, stated in a sharply written March 21 column.
Trainor to retire from post as Mount St. Mary’s president in 2024
Dr. Timothy E. Trainor, who helped boost enrollment and recently launched an ambitious capital campaign, plans to retire as president of Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, in the summer of 2024.
God and country: Catholic midshipman among growing ranks of women in military service
A summer camp when she was 17 awakened in Maria E. Weimer the values that would come to define her life: She is a protector, a defender and a believer – and her future would be with the U.S. Navy.