(1/26/10)  St. Gregory’s University (SGU) announced last week the formation of the Office of Faith, Integration, Development and Evangelization (FIDE).  The new office will focus on collaboration with campus offices, with particular emphasis on recruitment of new students, and connecting with Church offices and with various external communities, with the goal of responding to the U.S. bishops’ call to “look at the signs of the times and respond to the needs of the Church by meeting the needs of students in the world today and inspiring generations yet to come.”  SGU’s vice president for mission and identity said that as a Catholic university, SGU “has a relationship to the Church that is essential to its institutional identity,” referencing Ex corde Ecclesiae.  He said that FIDE will seek to enhance that relationship and “promote the witness of Christ, who is the Word made flesh, as it permeates all aspects of the university.”  University officials said that the new initiative “is in direct response to the Holy See’s call for renewed fidelity to the Roman Catholic character of its more than 400 colleges and universities around the world.”  St. Gregory’s University is featured in The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College, now a free online resource, for its strong Catholic identity.  Source: St. Gregory’s University