campus ministry
Ministry to the mentally challenged creates bonds, shares love
BY JOHN GALLAGHER STAFF WRITER “You know you’re my family, right?” Caesar, one of the Franklin House residents who is on the receiving end of Franciscan University’s Ministry to the Mentally Challenged, never ceases to remind those student participants that their work is truly important.
Women support Red Light Ministry through prayer, sacrifice
BY SARAH ALLISON STAFF WRITER Female students of Franciscan University have formed an intercessory prayer team to support the young men participating in Red Light Ministry as they pray quietly outside a strip club in Weirton, West Virginia, every week. Mary Beth Vernau, founder of Prodigal Daughter Ministries, along with other female students, envisioned the […]
Reaching the hearts of Pittsburgh’s homeless through communication, compassion
BY JOHN GALLAGHER STAFF WRITER It takes three vans of seven individuals roughly 90 minutes on the streets of Pittsburgh to make an incalculable impact. Every Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m., students pile into university-sponsored transportation. Sixty minutes and 59 rosary beads later, Franciscan University’s Homeless Ministry goes to work under a pedestrian bridge in […]
Fighting for life every Saturday
BY PABLO BOTEYO STAFF WRITER Jan. 22, 1973, the day of the United States Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade, is a date that resonates in the hearts of many students, families, church members and others throughout America. It is the day a struggle started, a struggle for lives that we did not know […]
Sharing courage through testimony: Prodigal Daughter Ministries
BY MATTHEW EBBERWEIN STAFF WRITER Feminism, abortion, human trafficking and abuse are a few of the topics addressed by Prodigal Daughter Ministries, the blog run by a speaker, retreat leader and theology and catechetics major at Franciscan University. Mary Beth Vernau created Prodigal Daughter Ministries as a starting point to focus her ministerial career for […]