On The Ignatian Educator, Matt Emerson asks: What can we do to encourage excellence of soul?
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Catholic Schools Week Begins
As most readers probably know this week is Catholic Schools Week The theme is quot Catholic Schools Communities of Faith Knowledge and Service quot In announcing the week the USCCB noted About 2 1 million students are currently educated in more than 6 600 Catholic schools in cities suburbs
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Theology as a Second Career
The number of older adults joining seminaries is on the rise. On The Ignatian Educator, Matt Emerson asks: Why wait?
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Congratulations to Georgetown
A big congratulations to Georgetown University the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in the country which today celebrates its 225th Anniversary As the school 39 s website noted On this day in 1789 the university 39 s founder Bishop John Carroll obtained the first deed for the land on w
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Phoenix’s Expansion of Charter Schools
The New York Times reports that the city of Phoenix has an ambitious new agenda to expand its charter schools The goal is to open 25 high-performing schools over five years within 220 square miles of the Phoenix Union High School District The district in South and central Phoenix whose largely po
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The Coachella Fest Faithful
What does the “liturgy” of an outdoor musical festival offer young people that church does not?
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Respecting our Roundedness
Writing at The Atlantic teacher Andrew Simmons worries that high schools treat middle- and low-income students differently when conveying the reasons for attending college In short Simmons argues that schools encourage upper-income students to see post-secondary learning as a path of intellectual
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Of Helicopters and Skeletons: Life in Ignatian Education
The below reflection was published originally at my old site the precursor site for this blog on February 16 2013 It was one of my first posts for quot The Ignatian Educator quot and was originally titled quot The Ignatian City quot I decided to republish it here for my new America readers
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The Self-Scrutiny of Pope Francis
I am reading one of the new books about Pope Francis this one a collection of interviews that he gave when still a cardinal It 39 s titled Pope Francis His Life in His Own Words One of the questions he addresses is quot How do you examine your life and your ministry before God quot The humi
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Appreciating Ian Barbour
Ian Barbour the great scholar of science and religion died on December 24 2013 He was 90 The Jan 12 2014 New York Times contained a brief overview of his life and work sketching out some of the reasons for the immensity of his influence and the significance of his work His first book quot