It's Official

As we reported a few weeks ago, The Legion of Christ and Southern Catholic College have agreed to make the school a Legion institution, saying the move will advance Catholic higher education in Georgia.

Southern Catholic College (SCC), a co-educational liberal arts college, claims to be Georgia’s first and only residential Catholic college and describes itself as “grounded in the Catholic intellectual and moral tradition.”

Founded in 2000, it now has more than 200 students from 25 states on its Dawsonville, Georgia campus an hour’s drive north of Atlanta.

Jeremiah J. Ashcroft, president of SCC, said that the Legion’s “experience and leadership” will help attract students from across North America and will help develop programs with other institutions worldwide.

The order is currently the subject of an Apostolic Visitation, following revelations that its founder Fr. Marcel Maciel had fathered a child with a mistress.