BDN features Newman Center in article on Catholic churches’ efforts to draw UMaine students
The Bangor Daily News featured the Our Lady of Wisdom Newman Center, a campus ministry center at the University of Maine, in an article about efforts by local Catholic churches to attract more UMaine students. The Parish of the Resurrection of the Lord, which includes Catholic churches in Old Town, Bradley and Indian Island in addition to the Newman Center, has launched a $3.5 million campaign to remodel and repair buildings. Renovations to the Newman Center would account for $2.2 million of the campaign, with an end goal of addressing the building’s lack of energy-efficient design and attracting more Catholic UMaine students to worship there, the BDN reported. The Newman Center was built in 1972 as a modern replacement for a log cabin where masses had been held previously, and has been the only Catholic church in Orono since the closure of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in 2009, according to the BDN. WABI (Channel 5) also reported on the center’s campaign for the needed repairs.