"Called to Glory" is the theme of this year's National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis, Ind. As in past years, the Holy Cross Office of Vocations and several seminarians will be there helping the high school students present discern their vocations and thus discover how God is calling...

"Fr. Charles Sheedy, C.S.C., was a man for all seasons and a Holy Cross priest for all people," writes Fr. Nick Ayo, C.S.C., profiling this month's Holy Cross Hero. A former Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Notre Dame and the inspiration behind the First year of Studies, Fr. Sheedy is...

"Regardless of who wins the 'best soiree' award," writes Old Collegian Joe Krivos after the epic Les Misérables soiree, "Thursday evenings are the time that the Holy Cross Seminary Community has to come together, to forget about the rigors of our academics for a short while, and just...

"While we strive to teach our parish children the fundamentals of their Christian faith and Catholic religion so that they understand what they are participating in at Church," writes Fr. Jim Fenstermaker, the pastor of Holy Cross Parish in South Easton, Mass., "our most important task is to...

On October 17, 2011, the one year anniversary of the canonization of St. André Bessette, Holy Cross inaugurates the Year of the Brother as a year of thanksgiving, celebration, and prayer. Br. Thomas Giumenta, C.S.C., kicks off the year for us, reflecting on his 43-year journey as a Holy...

"Father, I hear you're a real hard guy in the classroom. Now, when you're in the dorms or just around campus, everybody says there isn't a nicer, friendlier, priest at UP." Regardless of the reputation's validity, I began to reflect that maybe this combination of toughness in public settings and...

This month over two million Peruvians, including parishioners from our Holy Cross parish, will take to the streets in Lima to march in procession with their beloved Señor de los Milagros. As Fr. Don Fetters, C.S.C., shares in his monthly post, "The simple lesson of this tremendous...

"Father, can you hear my confession?" Fr. Andrew writes that although all priests are accustomed to hearing those words, "they are not the words I usually expect to hear shouted at me from across the quad. And yet that is just what happened to me this past football Saturday at Notre Dame."

Three young men have recently entered our formation program in Chile as candidates to the community. As one of them, Gabriel Adrián Fuentes Velasco, writes in sharing his story, "This may seem like madness in the times we live in, but I tell young people to open their hearts to Christ...

"During my studies in the seminary," recounts Fr. Brent Kruger, C.S.C., "I had had a professor who opened the Scriptures for me in a way that I had never experienced before. My mind and heart were fired by the possibilities of being able to study the Bible." Now, working on his dissertation on...