Plans for new Catholic medical school move forward as student interest grows

Plans to open a new Catholic medical school in Kansas are moving forward, one that leaders say will be the first U.S. institution fully committed to training doctors to adhere to church teachings about the dignity of every human life.

Located on the Benedictine College campus in Atchison, Kansas, the Saint Padre Pio Institute for the Relief of Suffering, School of Osteopathic Medicine is being developed at a time when other schools are losing medical students due to woke ideology and controversial medical practices.

Although the medical school is not open or accepting applications yet, Stephen Johnson, director of marketing and communications at Benedictine, told The College Fix that they already have received “a lot of interest from potential students.”