More Converts , More Vocations, More Catholic Success On the College Campus

Since 1998 at the University of Nebraska Newman Center :

... more than 250 students convert to Catholicism, including a record 30 this coming Easter. Last year’s group of Easter converts included Robert Weir, a one-time Protestant who entered UNL agnostic with “strongly anti-Catholic” leanings.. ....

.....Nearly 60 UNL students who have been active in the Newman Center have become Focus missionaries during Father Matya’s watch. Also during that time, 48 students have entered the seminary, and a dozen have become religious — Franciscans, Capuchins, Augustinians, Carmelites and others .......

...... UNL’s Newman Center has been so successful that it now has a problem — a lack of space. The two daily Masses in the St. Thomas Aquinas chapel attract 300 students total. The four weekend Masses, though, have standing-room-only attendance — more than 1,200 students. To address that, the Newman Center has launched a $12-million campaign to tear down the 51-year-old existing facility and construct a new center (7,200 square feet) and a church that seats 640 Mass participants. Plans include 60-student Catholic fraternity and sorority houses. About $6 million has been raised....

I think we have AGAIN find a key cog into returning American Catholicism to full health at all levels. How often do we have too see this repeated to get it. Read it all at Quenching a Thirst Nebraska-Lincoln’s Newman Center Has Track Record With Conversions and Vocations