Fr. Charlie McCoy, C.S.C., was ordained to the priesthood April 18, 2009, at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. While the oils were still drying on his hands, he was sent to the University of Portland to teach in the math department (as he has a PhD in math from Notre Dame) and to be a priest in...

After ten years working at Moreau Seminary, Fr. Pat Neary, C.S.C., answered the call in June to become rector of the Holy Cross Formation House in Nairobi, Kenya. In this series, "Into Africa," Fr. Pat will chronicle his missionary adventures with Holy Cross in East Africa. In this first...

Deer Porte, the annual seminarian camp, came to end earlier this morning as the seminarians packed up and headed back to Notre Dame for final preparations for the academica year. Credit for the successful camp this year really goes to Matt Kuczora, the third-year seminarian who served as the...

One of our Old Collegians continues our reporting from the annual seminarian camp: Deer Porte has been going really well and has been an excellent way to transition into the school year. Rather than jumping from home right into school, camp has allowed us to get back into the rhythm of community...

With the beginning of the camp, I realized that I had missed my brothers in the seminary more than I had thought. It has been great to see everyone again and finally catch up on the various activities everyone participated in over the summer. It has also been great to welcome the new guys into...

Today the 49 seminarians from Old College and Moreau Seminary along with their formation staffs left Notre Dame for their annual camp to begin the new year of formation. In Holy Cross, the tradition of starting the new seminary year with a camp dates back to 1905 when the seminarians spent two...

Another one of our Holy Cross priests from Family Theater Productions is making the news. Fr. Wilfred "Willy" Raymond, who is actually the Director of Family Theater Productions in Hollywood, is also giving his time as a chaplain to the Los Angeles Dodgers. As the article relates, Fr. Willy got...

Besides the larger crowds, including the many cardinals and diplomats, there was not much else about the Angelus on Sunday or the Audience on Wednesday that screamed something truly historic, truly unprecedented was taking place. Both the Angelus and the Audience stuck to their basic scripts and...

"As the white smoke started billowing out of the chimney and the bells began to ring out across Rome, people immediately started flooding into the St. Peter's Square from all over," writes Fr. Andrew Gawrych, C.S.C., from St. Peter's Square. "They streamed through the Bernini columns so that...