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.
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In new letter, Pope Leo shares 3 priorities for Catholic education amid A.I. revolution
“I call upon all educational institutions to inaugurate a new season that speaks to the hearts of the younger generations, reuniting knowledge and meaning, competence and responsibility, faith and life,” Leo wrote in an apostolic letter.
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Georgetown University names Eduardo Peñalver as next president
Georgetown University’s board of directors unanimously voted to name Eduardo M. Peñalver, president of Seattle University, as the 49th president of Georgetown University in Washington, the Jesuit school announced Oct. 15.
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Seven Saints to Pray to While Studying
While there’s no guarantee praying to these saints will help you earn the best grades, they can hopefully provide some relief from studying stress.
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In ‘St. Vincent,’ anyone can be a saint. Even Bill Murray.
Vincent almost gleefully repels everyone he meets. But as the semi-ironic title of Theodore Melfi’s “St. Vincent” implies, there’s more to him than a first impression might suggest.
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Our Jesuit high school banned smartphones. Here’s why it needed to happen.
By removing phones from classrooms, hallways and community spaces, we are not rejecting the digital world but reclaiming something more fundamental: the capacity to learn, to relate and to be fully present.
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At Jesuit universities, the government’s D.E.I. crackdown is an attack on religious freedom
Now more than ever, it is urgent to stand up for our university’s autonomy to make curricular decisions based on its Jesuit mission.
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Annunciation pastor calls first Sunday Mass after church shooting a ‘humble beginning’
Recalling the fear and the cries from students, parents and school staff to “get low, stay down, stay down, don’t get up” as bullets tore through Annunciation church at an all-school Mass in Minneapolis, Father Dennis Zehren, the pastor, said it marked a new beginning.
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Why the Minneapolis school shooting hits home for Catholic school parents
My heart breaks because the children who have died from gun violence—at Annunciation and throughout the nation—are ours, all of us belonging to one another.
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The INES program at Loyola School brings Jesuit values to middle school girls
“It’s important to amplify women’s voices in Jesuit education, and so that’s why the program, I think, philosophically exists.”