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Posted inBooks
Review: A Jesuit high school whodunit
Anna Bruno’s ‘Fine Young People,’ set at St. Ignatius, an elite Jesuit high school in a Pittsburgh suburb, operates as a whodunit on multiple levels simultaneously.
Posted inNews
After abortion advocacy controversy, professor withdraws from Notre Dame institute appointment
A professor at the University of Notre Dame has declined a research appointment at the school, following weeks of outcry from students, staff and several U.S. Catholic bishops, over her prominent advocacy for abortion.
Posted inJesuit School Spotlight
AMDG: An adventure of faith and service for Jesuit high school students
The new program, sponsored by Boston College and funded by Lilly Endowment, Inc., brings together 600 participants in a yearlong faith exploration and service journey.
Posted inShort Take
Graduates of Catholic colleges must develop qualities that A.I. can never provide
A.I. may be superb at repackaging existing information. But what about originality? Breakthrough ideas? Grace-filled epiphanies?
Posted inCatholic Book Club
Knute Rockne and the legacy of Notre Dame football
To Notre Dame fans as well as to a certain portion of the American Catholic populace, Knute Rockne remains a mythic figure—the founding father of the legend of the Fighting Irish.
Posted inFaith and Reason
The key to good teaching? Vulnerability.
Vulnerability can be a sign of hope in these fragile times. But how do we teach our students to be vulnerable?
Posted inDispatches
Catholic sisters educate visually impaired children for free in Nigeria
Visually impaired children escape lifelong poverty with the education they receive from Catholic sisters in Lagos, Nigeria.
Posted inLast Take
R.I.P. Paul Tagliabue: the commissioner who brought Catholic values to the NFL
While Paul Tagliabue, who died on Sunday, is remembered for his long and successful tenure as commissioner of the NFL, he was also a devoted philanthropist whose causes included Jesuit education and L.G.B.T.Q. ministry in the church.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Leo declares St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church and co-patron of Catholic education
Pope Leo XIV declared St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church, also declaring the saint co-patron with St. Thomas Aquinas of the church’s educational mission.