Today we continue our celebration by hearing from Brogan Ryan who gave two years of his life teaching in Catholic schools through the Alliance for Catholic Education. Since its founding in 1994 by Fr. Scully and Fr. Sean McGraw, C.S.C., ACE has become the largest provider of Catholic school...

From our founding, the Congregation of Holy Cross has been committed to Catholic Education as an essential part of the Church's mission of spreading the Good News and establishing God's Kingdom in this world. To mark Catholic Schools Week this year, we have a series of posts highlighting the...

Together with the rest of the Church, we in Holy Cross celebrated the wonderful news on January 14 that Pope John Paul II would be beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI, on the May 1, 2011 – Divine Mercy Sunday. To help us prepare for that grace-filled occasion, we asked the Holy...

Tomorrow marks the beginning of Catholic Schools Week. So on the eve of that great week, it is a great joy to share the news that one of our Holy Cross pastors, Fr. Neil Wack, C.S.C., was named a Distinguished Pastor by the National Catholic Education Assocation (NCEA) for his "outstanding...

Fr. Charlie McCoy, C.S.C., University of Portland math professor, resident priest, and blogger extraordinaire, has sent us his blog for January, and it is another marvelous one about letting the Lord be a guest in our lives. It reminds one of St. Andre Bessette and his ministry as a doorkeeper.

By the decree of The Most Reverend John Vlazny, Archbishop of Portland in Oregon (US), the Downtown Chapel, which had been formally known as St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, has been renamed for the first saint in the Congregation of Holy Cross. Effective as of January 6, 2011, the landmark...

Although the Christmas season officially came to an end last week, Fr. Pat Neary, C.S.C., takes us back one last time in his post this month to that great feast as he shares with us about his first Christmas in Africa, having become superior of our seminary there.

A happy feast day to one and all, as all of us in the Holy Cross family celebrate the feast day of our founder, Blessed Basil Moreau. As celebrations take place throughout the world, we dive into the festivities on our blog with a reflection on Blessed Moreau as a man of prayer, written by Fr...

Ryan Pietrocarlo, one of our Moreau candidates, has submitted this month's post from Moreau Seminary. He and the rest of the seminarians arrived back from their Christmas breaks last week, as Ryan shares, to start the new semester off with a retreat at the Holy Cross Center in La Porte.

One week from today on Monday, January 24, 2011, over a dozen of our Holy Cross seminarians from Old College and Moreau Seminary as well as several of our Holy Cross priests, including Fr. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., the President of the University of Notre Dame, will be participating in the March...