Because Sunday Mass can be one of the few familiar things for Catholic freshmen as they arrive for college, Saint Paul’s Catholic Student Center on campus at UW-Madison has grown their freshman ministry to help more freshmen.
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Advice to students, new and old
Last week I offered some remarks at the matriculation ceremony for Thomas Aquinas College in California. Since I would give the same advice to any Catholic students reentering the school year, I thought I would share my thoughts here.
A few months before I was named bishop, I gave another lecture at Thomas Aquinas College. I was asked to deliver a talk that I thought was going to be a little too heavy. It was late at night, I had flown in from Chicago and driven up the California highway, and I thought, “Oh, this talk is going to bomb.”