Miguel Bezos, the immigrant father of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has donated $12 million to a Catholic school in Delaware that housed and educated him when he arrived as an unaccompanied minor from Cuba in the early 1960s.
Catholic Education
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
‘You can’t find God in following what other people tell you to love’: lessons from my Jesuit high school teacher
A graduate of a Jesuit high school in conversation with his English teacher from three decades ago on Ignatian and Jesuit education.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The pandemic exposed how broken our Catholic schools are. But it also created an opportunity for change.
What Catholic schools are returning to is anything but “normal.” But the pandemic strategy of collaborating and sharing best practices can bring renewed success.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Chesterton High School opens in Iraq, with an emphasis on classical education
In the fall, Mar Qardakh School, a kindergarten through ninth grade Catholic institution, will open a high school, the Chesterton Academy of St. Thomas the Apostle, in the northern Iraq city.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
Should Catholic Schools Teach Critical Race Theory?
And what does Catholic Social Teaching have to say?
Posted inArts & Culture, Dispatches
Is cursive dead? Not for this Catholic school 5th grader
Caitlyn Ngo, a student at St. Edmund’s Catholic Academy in Brooklyn, N.Y., was recently crowned the Fifth Grade Grand National Champion in the 2021 Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
The Jesuit High School in Florida that welcomed 22 teenagers into the Catholic church this year.
The sacraments took place within two socially distanced school Masses on May 13 and 14.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
From 1990: Doctoral programs in theology at U.S. Catholic universities
In 1990, Thomas F. O’Meara, O.P., addressed the need for Catholic university faculties of adequate number and quality as well as the problem of educating Roman Catholics in schools largely separate from the numerous Catholic areas and traditions.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
From 1990: Will there be Catholic theology in the United States?
The Rev. Matthew Lamb argues that if the education of theologians is the foundation of Catholic education, hiring trends in Catholic universities suggest an ongoing “Protestantization” of religious education at Catholic colleges and universities.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Theology departments can’t just focus on academics. Spiritual and moral formation are needed, too.
Since theological study has moved from the seminary to the university, departments of theology must find creative ways to develop intellectual scholarship within lives of prayer and service.