How I Stayed Catholic At Harvard

A Harvard graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and devout Catholic tells you everything you need to know about keeping your faith at a modern university. Drawing on her recent experience, Aurora Griffin shares forty practical tips relating to academics, community, prayer, and service that helped her to stay Catholic in college.

She reminds us that keeping the faith is a conscious decision, reinforced by commitment to daily practices. Aurora’s story illustrates that when you decide your faith matters to you, no one can take it away, even in the most secular environments and under strong peer pressure. Throughout the book, she shows how being Catholic in college did not prevent her from having a full college experience, but actually enabled her to make the most of her time at Harvard.

Aurora encourages students who are about to begin their formative college years or those already in college, that the most valuable parts of college life–lasting friendships, intellectual growth, and cherished memories–are experienced in a more meaningful way when lived in and through the Catholic faith.