Ministries

Universities

"We shall always place education side by side with instruction; the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart. While we prepare useful citizens for society, we shall likewise do our utmost to prepare citizens for eternal life."

(Blessed Basil Moreau, C.S.C.)

In 1841, when the Congregation of Holy Cross was in its infancy, Fr. Moreau sent missionaries from France to the United States to educate the people of the New World. Their mission was to educate minds and hearts in the Gospel of Jesus Christ so that the people they served would be successful here and in the hereafter. The goal was to make these educational institutions "one of the most powerful means for good in the country." (Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C.)

University of Notre Dame (1842)
Notre Dame, IN

University of Portland (1902)
Portland, OR