John Garvey President of the Catholic University of America and Andrew Abela dean of the School of Business and Economics take to the Wall Street Journal today to defend CUA 39 s decision to accept a 1 million donation from the Charles Koch Foundation nbsp The Koch Foundation has made gifts t
Matt Emerson
Matt Emerson is the author of Why Faith? A Journey of Discovery (Paulist Press, 2016). His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including America and The Wall Street Journal.
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Fides et Irrational: Evangelizing Among Fragile Minds
Developing a healthy, authentic religious life requires, writes Matt Emerson, requires “a diversity of experiences and a period of trial and error.”
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The Wall Street Despair
At The Atlantic Kevin Roose author of the forthcoming book nbsp Young Money Inside the World of Wall Street 39 s Post-Crash Recruits briefly previews his three-year journey with upstart tycoons-in-the-making eight young quot Wall Street workers quot According to Roose life in Manhattan was
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Common Core Struggles
The Common Core is heading the way of the Affordable Care Act into a rising wave of opposition Apparently it is not what people expected Long opposed by conservatives the New York Times reports that quot the newest chorus of complaints is coming from one of the most liberal states and one of
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Awakening the Supernatural Self
Educators must invite students to see vocation not as a job but a path to spiritual freedom.
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News Roundup: Notre Dame’s Lawsuit & The Value of Testing
In the Wall Street Journal today a couple of items of interest for educators The first is a story about the lawsuit filed by the University of Notre Dame against the Obama administration concerning the contraception-coverage requirement under the healthcare law In quot Judges Push Back on Notre
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The Controversial ‘Noah’
Hollywood producers worry Christian viewers will object to “dark and intense” Noah.
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In Praise of Students
The nation 39 s Catholic Schools recently marked Catholic Schools Week and during the recent celebration it seems we heard as usual a lot about Catholic education in the abstract Commentators spoke of Catholic education in terms of large concepts — character formation moral formation and of
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A Blogging Examen
On The Ignatian Educator, Matt Emerson shares the “filter questions” he runs through when preparing his posts.
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Wise Words on Prayer
quot I think most people mistake prayer with receiving an answer quot nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp – Words of a student of mine a sophomore when I asked him about his faith life