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Article: Saint Mary's University: the Catholic years, 1838-1971.
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- Catholic Insight
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- December 1, 2005
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Saint Mary's University, an institution of more than 8,000 graduates and undergraduates, located in the south end of Halifax, appears Roman Catholic, even Jesuit. Its name sounds Catholic and the main building, named after Archbishop Thomas McNally, holds its crosses high. The chancellor is the Jesuit Archbishop of Halifax, the chaplaincy run by a young Jesuit, Father Con Mulvihill, and there is a fairly well-attended university mass Sunday night in Canadian Martyrs, the Jesuit parish located on the edge of the campus. Still, Saint Mary's is a modern secular university with an Anglican president and a student body that is mostly indifferent to, and ignorant of, the goals ...