Edgewood College, Madison
A visit to Edgewood College, February 2013
On Feb 6, 2013 I visited Edgewood College in Madison, WI to see if there was any reasonable possibility that I, a believing and practicing Catholic, could get an education there that was supportive of my Faith. Edgewood College is sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa and considers itself a Catholic college in the Dominican tradition, though it is really highly secular and when there is religion involved unfortunately it tends to militate against Catholic beliefs. I went on a Wednesday because I am a daily Mass goer and that is the...
read moreSacred Heart Academy, Edgewood, A Backward Glance (in 1900)
This article on Sacred Heart Academy (the predecessor of Edgewood High School–there was not a college there yet) appeared in the Saint Clara Academy, Sinsinawa magazine The Young Eagle, in 1900. A BACKWARD GLANCE. Sacred Heart Academy, Madison Wis. DEAR EAGLE: AS each month draws near its close, we Edgewood girls look eagerly toward the southwestern corner of our state, watching for the coming of the ever welcome “EAGLE” which brings sweet tidings of the “Mound girls” and the dear Sisters who are helping them...
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Dominican priest and Missionary Apostolic
in Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois
in pioneer times.
Builder of 20 churches, founder of 30 parishes,
founder of the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa.