An article in The Washington Post features good news for parents who hope to find Catholic schools capable of providing services for children with disabilites Forty-two percent of Catholic elementary schools in the United States had a resource teacher to help students with special needs in 2008-09
Kerry Weber
Kerry Weber joined the staff of America in October 2009. Her writing and multimedia work have since earned several awards from the Catholic Press Association, and in 2013 she reported from Rwanda as a recipient of Catholic Relief Services' Egan Journalism Fellowship. Kerry is the author of Mercy in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the Thirsty, Visit the Imprisoned, and Keep Your Day Job (Loyola Press) and Keeping the Faith: Prayers for College Students (Twenty-Third Publications). A graduate of Providence College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she has previously worked as an editor for Catholic Digest, a local reporter, a diocesan television producer, and as a special-education teacher on the Navajo reservation in Arizona.
Catholic Health Care and the Quarterback
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning has served as a spokesperson for St Vincent rsquo s Catholic hospital in Manhattan since 2006 and he plans to continue this work mdash but from now on he rsquo s doing it for free The New York Post reported that Manning will no longer accept compensation f
Beer, Baseball and the Archbishop
Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York spoke to a packed bar in midtown Manhattan Monday evening for the city s first Theology on Tap lecture of the year His topic of choice was the papacy in honor of the feast of the Chair of Peter and the talk was filled with a number of interesting and entertain
Outsourcing Drama Education
High-school drama departments often are known for being creative mdash although not necessarily their hiring methods But Providence High School a Catholic institution in Burbank California recently attracted attention from the Los Angeles Times after it chose to hire two professional actors ra
Who’s Funding the Apostolic Visitation? (and other questions)
Mother Mary Clare Millea answered a number of questions from NCR s John Allen recently and the conversation is worth reading Allen asks some great questions about the next steps the cost of the visitation and whether Cardinal Rode already has made up his mind about the state of Religious life in
Do Catholic Colleges Help Students Stay Catholic?
A new CARA study shows that Catholics students attending Catholic colleges are less likely to stop attending Mass than those who attend public universities but the results also reflect a diversity of viewpoints on social and political issues among young Catholics The study surveyed 14 527 students
Celebrate Catholic Schools (and the women who built them)!
As a young child I loved Catholic Schools Week this year Jan 31-Feb 6 During my elementary-school years my school s celebration often included activities such as coloring a poster or bookmark with the Catholic Schools Week logo attending a school-wide Mass or eating a free ice cream sundae
This Girl’s Life: A young woman comes of age in “An Education”
In “An Education” Jenny is a bright sixteen-year-old who feels trapped in her early-1960s English town.
Of Many Things
The most unusual Winter Olympics sports are often my favorites.
Giving up on the Death Penalty
Last October the American Law Institute the group that established standards for the death penalty in America voted to withdraw its support of the practice it helped to define This decision according to New York Times columnist Adam Liptak represents a tectonic shift in legal theory In his
