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Hey everyone. My husband and I are both thinking about going back to college. My husband is wanting to go to a Catholic college or university to study the Catholic faith. He was raised Catholic but he doesn't know or understand much about the Catholic Church and that is why he is wanting to go to college and study the Catholic faith. As for me, I'm wanting to go to a Catholic college or university to study to become a Catechist or possibly a missionary. The problem is, I don't know which Catholic universities or colleges are orthodox in their teaching. We both want to make sure we find a college or university we can go to which is thoroughly orthodox. I know of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Catholic Distance University, and the Catholic University of America. As far as I know, they are all very faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church. I'm hoping that we can find a Catholic college or university where we can study from home. Doing online studies would be by far the best for us since it would be too expensive for us to travel.
 

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Is Saint Joseph of Maine any good? My husband applied to them.
I attended that school for a time. Nothing wrong with it but a good percentage of the faculty are not actually Catholic. My philosophy professor was an Episcopalian. It's not my first choice to return to. I thought some of the course work was not really college level, but that seems to be a common failing of predominantly online programs.
 
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Ave Maria

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I attended that school for a time. Nothing wrong with it but a good percentage of the faculty are not actually Catholic. My philosophy professor was an Episcopalian. It's not my first choice to return to. I thought some of the course work was not really college level, but that seems to be a common failing of predominantly online programs.

Thank you very much for the insight!
 
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I thought of one other detail. St. Joseph's was largely self paced. You got the course and had a certain number of weeks to complete all the units but there wasn't necessarily a weekly requirement. And if you wanted you could work through it all much faster than the allotted time.
 
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Ave Maria Gratia Plena
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I thought of one other detail. St. Joseph's was largely self paced. You got the course and had a certain number of weeks to complete all the units but there wasn't necessarily a weekly requirement. And if you wanted you could work through it all much faster than the allotted time.

Thank you very much for your insights into this college. I appreciate it.
 
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