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September 2010
Academic Mass marks beginning of September trimester
On September 1, a Mass was offered at CDU for all of the students and staff. Traditionally the start of the academic season is celebrated with the Mass of the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who is the Spirit of the Wisdom of God. And so in the words of John Paul II, a university "[dedicates] itself to every path of knowledge, aware of being preceded by him who is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life"(8), the Logos, whose Spirit of intelligence and love enables the human person with his or her own intelligence to find the ultimate reality of which he is the source and end and who alone is capable of giving fully that Wisdom without which the future of the world would be in danger." (Ex corde de Ecclesiae, article 4). Read Father's homily from this Mass
August 2010
Not Trusting Grace
Read Father Bramwell's column that recently appeared at The Catholic Thing. More.
Mass topic of new CDU online seminar
CDU will offer a new online seminar August 9-30 on understanding the Mass. The three-week seminar, "The Mass: History, Theology, and Spirituality," will be taught by Father Paul deLadurantaye. More.
July 2010
Undergraduate dean presents paper at conference in Germany
Father Bevil Bramwell, undergraduate dean at CDU, participated in the German/American Colloquium in Munich, Germany from July 24- 31. The Colloquium's theme focused on Tolerance. Father Bramwell presented a paper Benedict XVI:Tolerance Makes 'Space' for Truth. To read Father's presentation
June 2010
CDU opens September enrollments early so students can beat the tuition increase
CDU is opening September enrollments early this year to provide students the opportunity to enroll in the Sept. 2010 trimester at May 2010 trimester tuition. Although tuition increases for the new year are low, graduate students can realize a savings $30 for a three credit course and undergraduate students a savings is $57. On Thursday, July 1, new tuition rates will be charged when enrolling in September classes. View September online courses
May 2010
CDU Board Expands in Number and Stature
At the first meeting of the Board of Trustees in 2010, six new members were appointed as trustees of the University. These new members increase the number of CDU trustees to eighteen and add a diversified range of expertise to the university's board. MORE
Graduate dean's book is Knights of Columbus Book of the Month
In Dr. Royal's book, The God That Did Not Fail: How Religion Built and Sustains the West (Encounter Books, 2006), he examines the history of religion from the ancients to the present day, demonstrating that religion is a permanent and essential part of human society. Royal is also president of the Faith & Reason Institute and a member of Ambrose Council 8403 in Annandale, Va.
April 2010
Free radio seminars from Catholic Distance University
In partnership with EWTN, CDU Presents is a free weekly radio program that explores a variety of Catholic topics. The program airs on Sundays at 9:00 p.m. EST, on stations carrying EWTN radio programming. More
CDU president writes for USCCB's Year for Priests
Throughout the Year for Priest, USCCB has published monthly articles about priests by renowned women of faith. CDU president Marianne Evans Mount was asked to write an article about CDU founder, the late Bishop Thomas J. Welsh. Read article
February 2010
From Antarctica to Virginia - via Tahiti
It's fitting that a man born in South Africa and now residing in Washington, D.C., is associated with Catholic Distance University (CDU). Distances have been a significant part of Father Bevil Bramwell's life. More
Best selling author for Our Sunday Visitor now editing The Catholic Answer
Church historian Dr. Matthew Bunson has just been named editor for the Catholic publisher's leading magazine,The Catholic Answer. Bunson is also a professor of Church history at the Catholic Distance University in Virginia and a senior fellow of the Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology, founded by Dr. Scott Hahn, in Steubenville, OH. More
January 2010
Academic Mass marks beginning of January trimester
On January 12, a Mass will be offered at CDU for all of the students and staff. Traditionally the start of the academic season is celebrated with the Mass of the Holy Spirit. More
Father Bramwell talks at Society of Catholic Social Scientists
CDU's undergraduate dean and professor will speak at the Society of Catholic Social Scientists annual conference to be held at the University of Mississippi, October 30-31. His paper examines the thought of Charles Taylor in The Secular Age and Joseph Ratzinger in his Truth and Toleration to come to some conclusions about the meaning of secularity and the way in which Christianity is the answer to the problem.
CDU president presents at SPHS conference
CDU president, Marianne Evans Mount, Ph.D. is presenting her thesis document at the upcoming Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences conference, October 29 -31, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Marianne will be speaking at a session entitled "Phenomenology of Education." The SPHS is an international multidisciplinary group of social and human scientists who are engaged with the philosophical tradition of phenomenology and other related perspectives.
August 2009
The Mass of the Holy Spirit offered at CDU for all students and staff
On August 31, a Mass was offered at CDU for all of the students and staff. Traditionally the start of the academic season is celebrated with the Mass of the Holy Spirit. This is an invocation of the Spirit of God to aid us all students, professors and administrators in doing what we need to do to achieve our purpose which is to learn the wisdom of God. As the Responsorial Psalm says today: “Lord, send out your spirit and renew the face of the earth.” May we be renewed at the start of this trimester through our learning and when we know the wisdom of God may it touch our hearts and make us truly his servants.
CDU staff share day of reflection at the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
On August 20, CDU's anniversary, the staff traveled to Emmitsburg, Maryland to share a day of reflection at the shrine of the school's patron saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton. Father Bramwell offered Mass in the Shrine's chapel and the staff visited the Basilica, Stone House, White House, and the Alter of Relics.
July 2009
Changing Times -- Changing Methods -- Timeless Truth
CDU student Mark McElrath writes on how CDU is a transformative instrument of higher learning. More
September trimester offers courses in theology, history, and scripture
CDU's September trimester offers over 22 online graduate and undergraduate courses and five online seminars for graduate, undergraduate, and noncredit. More
June 2009
Undergraduate dean to speak at The German-American Colloquium
There will be a colloquium in Munich in Germany in 2010 on the theme of Tolerance. The colloquium is known each year as The German-American Colloquium. Thanks to Prof. Jude Dougherty, a member of the Board of CDU, Fr. Bramwell, the Undergraduate Dean has been invited to give a paper at the colloquium. Fr. Bramwell will be explaining Benedict XVI’s theology of tolerance in the issue of the relationship between Catholicism and other religions.
CDU News Archives 2009
Rev. Bramwell named undergraduate dean for CDU
CDU is a Yellow Ribbon school
Father Bramwell writes on The Pope's Words in Amman
Father Bramwell writes on Pope Benedict XVI and the Environment
Stimulus bill changes may help CDU students
Remembered at home -- final goodbye to Bishop Thomas J. Welsh
Bishop Thomas J. Welsh: A living icon of the Good Shepherd and of hope
Gospel of St. John and Canon Law among courses for CDU January session
CDU News Archives 2008
Gospel of St. John and Canon Law among courses for CDU January session
25 Years of Distance Learning
CDU online seminars feature politics and the Crusades
Faith & Family's 2008 Catholic Identity College Guide
Theology of the Body, biblical Greek among topics for
CDU trimester
CDU offers seminar on the Mass
Twenty-five years of helping Catholics study their faith
The Catholic Distance University: Silver Jubilee Mass 6.08
CDU offers online seminar on Pope's new encyclical
Book of Genesis topic of new CDU seminar
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CDU’s graduate dean Robert Royal, Ph. D. has the honor of introducing Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago, at a special event to be held at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome on Wednesday, October 7. Cardinal George will speak on his new book, The Difference That God Makes. The event is sponsored by the Pontifical Institute "Redemptor Homins," by the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Faith and Reason Institute in Washington, and the Lumen Christi Institute in Chicago.
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