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Hey, I’m currently a high school senior trying to discern my college choice. I feel like God is calling me to Creighton University. I’m already accepted and have scholarships etc. I was wondering what other thought about Catholic colleges. What was your experience?
 
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Hey, I’m currently a high school senior trying to discern my college choice. I feel like God is calling me to Creighton University. I’m already accepted and have scholarships etc. I was wondering what other thought about Catholic colleges. What was your experience?
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It depends which one you go to. 🙂

The National Catholic Register puts out an annual Guide to Catholic Colleges. They send out a questionnaire to various colleges who then respond to questions regarding Catholic identity.

Some people go to Catholic colleges and lose their faith while others go to public colleges and find their faith. It all depends on the school and the Catholic presence there (as well as the individual, of course).

I’m not familiar with Creighton, so I can’t comment on them specifically.
 
Hey there.
I am a Creighton alumn.
It is a jesuit University. To some that may be a deterrant, to me it was what drew me there. I am also an alumn (undergrad) of anothe Catholic University, which I loved dearly, but of which I have to say, I got more spirituality from CU than from my undergrad college. It is what you make of it. Any Catholic University will give you a chance to develop your roots, you just have to be aware that there may be points of dsiagreement, in which case you should choose on the side of the Churche’s teachings and not those of your “alma Mater”
Academically, CU is wonderful and Omaha is really cool too ( regardless of what some people tend to say about the MidWest!!!)
Let me know what your decision is!👍
 
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Hey there.
I am a Creighton alumn.
It is a jesuit University. To some that may be a deterrant, to me it was what drew me there. I am also an alumn (undergrad) of anothe Catholic University, which I loved dearly, but of which I have to say, I got more spirituality from CU than from my undergrad college. It is what you make of it. Any Catholic University will give you a chance to develop your roots, you just have to be aware that there may be points of dsiagreement, in which case you should choose on the side of the Churche’s teachings and not those of your “alma Mater”
Academically, CU is wonderful and Omaha is really cool too ( regardless of what some people tend to say about the MidWest!!!)
Let me know what your decision is!👍
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How lucky to find someone:D Thanks for the (name removed by moderator)ut. Putting in what you get out seems to be the case with faith.
 
Someone in these threads was dissing Notre Dame. A recent garduate replied, noting the fact that there were dissident professors there; and at the same time there were active professors and students who had no problem with the Magisterium. It has been a bit since I read the rebuttal, but I think he said that there was Eucharistic Adoration for those who wished.

It is really true that you get out what you put in. It is also true that words like “liberal” and “conservative” are loosely used, and if the listener does not know where the person using them stands on the spectrum, then the listener has no useable information with which to measure the speaker’s content.

In other words: I have both liberal and conservative friends. My liberal friends think I am an arch-conservative, somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun. And a couple of conservative friends think I am somewhere to the left of Trotsky. For both groups, my measurement is from where they stand.

There are people whose faith would be endangered in many, if not most Catholic colleges and Universities because they are immature in their faith, easily swayed by whatever they hear and unable to discern what the Church teaches from what the next professor says. They might also be endangered in a secular or denominational school, even if it had a really strong and faithful Catholi youth ministry. They would need to go to a school that hews the line from start to finish.

There is nothing wrong at all with the latter for a school, but if you are well grounded in your faith and not subject to being swayed by the breeze that eminates from the mouth of the next “guru” professor, then you should look at other criteria in evaluating where you want to go. And keep in mind that, unless scholarship money is an issue, one can generally transfer to another school if the first choice isn’t working.

I graduated from “Notre Dame West” - the University of Portland. My faith was not endangered by going there - on the other hand, it was a whole lot of years ago that I went. Were I to do it over again, I would probably choose Oregon State. But then, I wouldn’t get a degree in Philosophy again, either.
 
Hi Magnus,

I can’t comment on Creighton as I didn’t go there, but I did attend Franciscan University in Steubenville and Ave Maria Law and Univ. of St. Thomas for law school.

All I can say is decide carefully. I’m not sure how you are financially, but private schools are expensive and (sometimes) not worth the difference in price. I went to FUS for two years so the cost wasn’t too exorbitant but I know the bills from a private college can pile up over 4 years.

Anyhow, finances aside, FUS wasn’t a “bad” school per-se. Since this is the Traditional Catholic forum, I can be rather blunt and say that when I was there (2003-2005) the atmosphere was not friendly to Tradition at all and requests for a TLM on campus met with extensive opposition. Happily, today, that has changed and FUS has a regular TLM on campus (and in downtown Steubenville). Anyhow, it all rather depends on what you want to do and how important the Catholic mission of the school is to you. A school like CUA or Georgetown may be Catholic in name, but objectively, they may be quite different (I had that experience at St. Thomas).

Newer, smaller schools like Ave Maria have problems too which cannot be discounted but there are also many benefits such as a close community and students who (for the most part) share your zeal for the Faith as well as helping the new school succeed. Its generally much easier to implement activities than in a larger school as well (e.g. we had a spontaneous TLM Sunday Mass group at Ave that formed more or less organically).

I wish you all the best in finding a school!
 
My rule of thumb is that if it’s followed by an SJ I don’t trust it any farther than I can kick it, but the rule can be overturned upon finding evidence to the contrary. All I can say, though, is that I find it very hard to believe that any one of the Jesuits better-known schools has been left untouched by the order’s precipitous decline in fidelity. That’s not about rivalry either, because I’ve never had much respect for the CSCs who run my alma mater of Notre Dame, which I used to timidly endorse as “more good than the real, serious bad” but as of this weekend will stop endorsing altogether (this year’s commencement honoree: Pres. Obama, showing that while all the signs from students are for improvement all the signs from the administration are ever more firmly for decay and betrayal).
 
Joe_5859 said:
It depends which one you go to. 🙂

The National Catholic Register puts out an annual Guide to Catholic Colleges. They send out a questionnaire to various colleges who then respond to questions regarding Catholic identity.

Some people go to Catholic colleges and lose their faith while others go to public colleges and find their faith. It all depends on the school and the Catholic presence there (as well as the individual, of course).

I’m not familiar with Creighton, so I can’t comment on them specifically.
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I attended a Catholic college for women in the late 60s and lost my faith while there…largely my fault and also I was heavily influenced by cultural changes all around me.
 
Providence College is really good, too! I found the Dominican spirituality to be intellectual, humbling, and inviting all at once.
 
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