If colleges are concerned about mission, why not simply prioritize hiring practicing Catholics?
Catholic Education
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
The economic model for college is broken. Catholic social teaching points a way forward.
Catholic universities must make a coordinated effort to engage bigger economic questions, like why a college degree is valuable and how to fund education.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Notre Dame and Georgetown among schools sued over financial aid conspiracy
The University of Notre Dame and Georgetown University are among a group of 16 private educational institutions named in a lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to fix student financial aid distribution formulas among them.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
‘It isn’t Latin or Greek I’m teaching, but how to think’: Memories of a formative Jesuit educator
As a young teacher at Canisius High School in Buffalo, N.Y., John W. Donohue, S.J., worked with Thomas J. Jones, the senior member of the lay faculty: “From him I was to learn more about the practice of teaching than from any book or course in education.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Supreme Court leans toward blocking Maine program that excludes religious schools
In oral arguments that took nearly two hours, several of the justices found fault with the state’s decision process in determining just how religious a school was to decide if it could participate or not.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Cardinal Czerny: Theology must be grounded in pastoral experience
Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., in a speech at Regis College in Toronto, said that pastoral experience, more than any church document, should be the material of theological reflection.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
‘Getting nasty emails is not new’: Jesuit high school president isn’t backing down from a controversial vaccine mandate
Principal Bob Ryan knew his decision to require Covid-19 vaccinations or frequent testing would be controversial. What he did not anticipate was what he has called a concerted “campaign to impugn Brophy.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Teacher fired by Catholic school over same-sex marriage wins appeal to continue lawsuit
The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Nov. 23 that an Indiana trial court “committed reversible error” when it dismissed a former teacher’s lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Indianapolis earlier this year.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
The Great Ignatian Challenge turns a Thanksgiving food drive into a (friendly) Jesuit competition
Jim Rowen discusses the genesis of the Great Ignatian Challenge, a yearly competition among Jesuit high schools to see which institution can bring in the most donations for local charities.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Jesuit university student group’s Planned Parenthood fundraiser draws backlash
Students and alumni at Loyola Marymount University are railing against a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood that a student group is hosting on Friday, Nov. 5.