Newman Centers - United States

United States

St. John's Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—formerly known as the Newman Foundation—is the largest in the nation and has been considered one of the model Newman Centers in the United States. It encompasses three main entities: St. John's Catholic Chapel, Newman Hall, and the Institute of Catholic Thought. St. John's Catholic Newman Center finished an expansion/renovation in August 2008. St. John's is in the Catholic Diocese of Peoria. It is one of the few Newman Centers that also encompasses a large undergraduate housing, through the University's Certified Private Housing program, having over 600 live-in residents, a cafeteria, etc. Other Newman Centers/Programs in the Peoria Diocese include the Augustana Catholic Campus Ministry, Galesburg Newman Club, Monmouth Newman Club, Newman Foundation - Bradley University & ICC, St. Francis of Assisi Newman Center, and Salve Regina Newman Center at Eureka College.

Active since 1946, the St. Philip Neri Catholic Newman Center serves the students and neighboring community at the University of Tulsa. The center is rich with students of all faith levels who seek to grow closer to Christ. Ministries include Sunday Mass, weekday Masses, men's and women's discussion groups, community service days, and retreats.

The Newman Catholic Center of Newark, New Jersey encompasses the three communities of Rutgers-Newark, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Essex County College. At the center, located immediately next to the Pro-Cathedral of Saint Patrick in Newark, students join a dynamic faith community participating in Sunday night student Masses, weekday Masses around the campuses, bible studies, catechism, a weekly philosophy brew, homeless outreach and prison ministry, retreats, adoration, social fun, and more. The Newman Catholic Center of Newark is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

EIU Newman Center at Eastern Illinois University- Services Catholic students at EIU. The center started as the Catholic Study Club in 1939, when Father Thomas Connolly and Mrs. Dorothee Coleman opened up Coleman's home to thirteen students at what was then Eastern Illinois State Teacher's College. The current Newman Center, finished in 1999, houses meeting spaces, ministry offices and the beautiful St. Philip Neri Chapel. The EIU Newman Center is also the home of Eastern's Student Volunteer Center.

Cornell had one of the first Newman Clubs, organized in 1888. The Newman Club eventually matured into a full-fledged campus parish, the Cornell Catholic Community.

St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Newman Center at Illinois State University—formerly known as the Newman Club—is one of the strongest Newman Centers for fostering vocations among young Catholic adults. The Newman Center proves this with its six newly married couples in 2008, three ordained priests, and currently twelve seminarians studying for the priesthood. St. Robert Bellarmine's is in the Catholic Diocese of Peoria.

John Paul II Newman Center at the University of Illinois, Chicago— serves the largest Catholic student population in the Midwest and one of the largest in the country. UIC has 25,000+ students to which over 15,000 are Catholic. The John Paul II Newman Center in 1999 established the Arthur J. Schmitt Chair in Catholic studies for students to study the Catholic faith and receive college credit for doing so. Currently, students may receive a minor in Catholic studies. Of the other programs the John Paul II Newman Center offers, Vocation Discernment is a key focus as they average 10-15 students each year who study to become priests and religious brothers and sisters. The Integritas Institute for Ethics, a third program, seeks to educate students on the importance of ethics and morality among students in various colleges around campus. The John Paul II Newman Center is in the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.

All Saints Catholic Newman Center at Arizona State University serves the students, faculty, and staff of ASU, and also has an active community of all ages and backgrounds. All Saints is in the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix.

St. Mary's Catholic Center at Texas A&M University serves the student community there well. They made a bold decision to turn their permanent parishioners into volunteers for the campus ministry and discontinued all other parish programs not related directly to campus ministry. 200 families stayed and the rest went to the other parish in College Station. The Catholic Campus Ministry Association has done presentations before national audiences concerning the success of St. Mary's, hoping to inspire struggling ministries at other campuses.

The St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Newman Center is located on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. It serves the students of UNLV as well as the surrounding community. The center offers Sunday Mass, Daily Mass (during the school semester), Praise & Worship nights, volunteer and service opportunites, social events, and bible studies throughout the school year.

The Newman Catholic Student Center Parish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Duke Newman Catholic Student Center at Duke University serve two of the larger Catholic Campus Ministry programs in the region. The Newman Centers provide activities such as Masses and prayer services, dinners, social events, and service opportunities such as the Alternative Spring Break program. The Diocese of Raleigh, NC also has Newman Centers at NC State, Elon University, UNC-Wilmington, and East Carolina University.

The Middlebury College Newman Club meets on Sundays for student mass. The club is associated with St. Mary's Catholic Church, found right next to the college's campus.

The St. Thomas More Newman Center is at the University of Missouri and it also serves the campuses of Stephen's College and Columbia College (Missouri) in Columbia, Missouri.

New Mexico has a Newman Centre in Saint Albert at New Mexico State University. The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque hosts the Aquinas Newman Center. Socorro, NM also has a Newman Center—St. Patrick's—which is hosted by New Mexico Tech. Silver City, NM has St. Francis Newman Center at Western New Mexico University.

The Diocese of Lexington, covering 50 counties in Central and Eastern Kentucky, maintains Newman Centers at eight of the Commonwealth's colleges and Universities, including Berea College, Centre College, Eastern Kentucky University, University of Kentucky, Morehead State University, Union College, Georgetown College and Transylvania University. The Diocese of Covington maintains at least one Newman Center at Northern Kentucky University.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has a Newman Center that serves the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and Chatham College. It is run as part of the Pittsburgh Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.

Rolla, Missouri, has a recently renovated Newman Center that serves Missouri S&T, and hosts monthly spaghetti dinners for campus students.

Kirksville, Missouri has a Newman Center that serves Truman State University that is active in the community.

Prominent Newman Clubs in the Southern California region include the California State University (Cal State) Long Beach Newman Club, the Cal State Fullerton Newman Club, & Cal Poly Pomona Newman.

Central California has a Newman Center at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

The Diocese of Sacramento has three Newman Centers, the Newman Catholic Community at California State University, Sacramento, the St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center at California State University, Chico and Newman Center at University of California, Davis.

University of Hawaii Manoa has a Newman Center that also serves as the school's Catholic Campus Ministry. The center also goes by the name Holy Spirit Parish which draws parishioners from the surrounding community. Center is currently run by the Jesuits' under the Diocese of Honolulu.

The University of Chicago's Calvert House is also a Newman Center that serves as the center for Catholic life and service at the University.

The Archdiocese of Agana (the capital of Guam, territory of the United States) has a Newman Center for The University of Guam and Guam Community College, and is open to high school students as well.

The Roncalli Newman Center is a church with parish status in the diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin. It is currently host to many students, as well as several hundred families, and functions as a normal parish.

Florida Institute of Technology has a Newman Club / Catholic Campus Ministry which had 20 active members in 2008. It is led by Fr. Doug Bailey and does various service project, spiritual activities, and outdoors and fun activities throughout the fall and spring semesters.

University of Maine also has a Newman club and center. In 1946, the Newman Center (also known as Our Lady of Wisdom Parish) was established for the Catholic students, faculty, staff, administrators and their families at the University. The original building was located in a former restaurant on the other side of College Avenue. The current Newman Center was dedicated in 1971.

University of Southern Maine has a Newman club. It operates out of the interfaith office.

University of California, San Diego has a Newman Center. It operates out of the Center for Ethics and Spirituality on campus, and is run by priests of the Dominican Order.

University of Massachusetts Amherst has a Newman Center located right off its campus. The Center offers Mass, but its most popular aspect is the cafe in the basement, which served breakfast all day, lunch, and dinner. It also has ping pong tables and other recreational activities to inspire the campus community and to welcome non-Catholics inside, without the need to attend Mass.

The State University of New York at Potsdam and Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY share a joint Newman Club that actively seeks to live a full life, rooted in Christ. The Newman Club, based at Saint Mary Church, often shares in Theology on Tap discussions, weekly dinner and meetings, praise and worship, and Mass on the two campuses.

At the University of Evansville, the present-day Newman Center house was purchased from the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity in 1964, and after renovations, it was blessed and dedicated by Bishop Henry Grimmelsman on October 10, 1965, in the last year of his great tenure as the first Bishop of Evansville, a see and diocese created for him.

The University of Cincinnati has St. Monica-St. George Newman Center.

A list of other US Newman Centers has been kept up to date by the Newman Center at Caltech