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Over 40 majors in undergraduate, graduate, and professional education programs
We make it easy to find your way into our community.
Saint Joe鈥檚 is the place where student life and community life come together.
A rich tradition in Catholic education for more than a hundred years.
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The Second Vatican Council has been called 鈥渢he most significant religious event since the 16th-century Reformation and certainly the most important of the 20th century.鈥� Why? Because it allowed the Catholic Church to rediscover its deeper identity. Yes, the Church is a hierarchical institution, but it鈥檚 also a sacrament, a mystery, a servant of the [...]
How does one truly pay honor to those who laid the foundation of Saint Joseph鈥檚 College? Pay honor to those who successfully built on this foundation? Pay honor to those who faced the multiple challenges of these 100 years gone by and brought them to happy resolution? Of any number of approaches available, I am [...]
Over the summer, Sister Marie Henderson, RSM, drove across the country from Michigan to bring something unusual and precious to campus. Finishing the final leg of the long trip, she parked her Chrysler PT Cruiser in front of Xavier Hall to make the delivery. Carefully wrapped in the back lay a nearly life-size bronze statue [...]
Dr. Patricia Ireland鈥檚 family is well-traveled. Her two sons recently returned from missions in Africa, and her daughter is leaving for a service trip to Mexico. Dr. Ireland is making a shorter, though no less significant, voyage: She鈥檚 moving from Dominican College in Orangeburg, N.Y., to Saint Joseph鈥檚 College in Standish, Maine, to become the [...]
Born and raised in Houlton, Maine, Sr. Anne Fitzpatrick 鈥�64 has been a Sister of Mercy for 53 years. Her father worked at Madigan Hospital, which was sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, so she knew many of the nuns as a child. She says her father would fix the nuns鈥� rosary beads for them, [...]
I鈥檓 not sure how it happened, but over the past couple of years, I鈥檝e become more and more interested in Mary. Some of it undoubtedly stems from my interest in the paranormal, and, in a sense, nothing is more paranormal than the divine. As a scientist, I also believe that everything is understandable. I grew [...]
In a classic, against-all-odds David vs. Goliath battle, America鈥檚 marginalized farm workers formed a successful union because they won the hearts and minds of the American consumer. In that fight for social justice, where countless volunteers made victory possible, one of them was one of our own. 鈥淗e is my Martin Luther King,鈥� says Pauline [...]
Saint Joseph鈥檚 College has appointed Rev. John McHugh, O.F.M., Cap., as campus chaplain. An ordained Catholic priest and Capuchin Franciscan Friar, he has a long history of serving on college campuses. Father McHugh spent 17 years at Dartmouth College, first as an associate chaplain and then as director of the Catholic Student Center. After leaving [...]
Everyone in the entire gymnasium stood and clapped. Sister Marilyn Lacey, RSM, had just told the graduates at this year鈥檚 Commencement to 鈥淕et Engaged, Get Lost, Get Gratitude.鈥� She explained how her life opened to God鈥檚 flow when she stopped crossing things off her daily 鈥渢o-do list鈥� and stepped outside her comfort zone to help [...]
Welcome to the core curriculum's religion class. 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 really know what to expect,鈥� says Kathleen Gilbert 鈥�14 when asked about her class called Intro to Judeo-Christian Tradition. 鈥淚鈥檓 not really religious 鈥� so I didn鈥檛 know much about the Bible before I took the class. Now, I have a deeper understanding of Christianity and [...]
