I am a black priest in a predominantly white, rural parish. Answering this question is more urgent than ever.
Catholic Education
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
New emergency aid bill would cut most benefits to Catholic schools
Disallowing emergency aid to one part of an affected community and allowing it for another runs contrary to long-held social policy, Catholic education advocates said.
Posted inFaith, Features
The coronavirus gives Catholic universities a chance to strengthen their identity
In the coronavirus epidemic, Catholic educators have a real-world laboratory to evaluate how they make practical the too-often merely conceptual talk about Catholic identity. Do current pedagogies give students what we say they will—a truly distinctive way of being, a way of knowing and a way of responding to life’s most difficult problems?
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Dr. Anthony Fauci to Jesuit grads: ‘Now is the time for us to care selflessly about one another’
A 1958 graduate of Regis High School in New York and a 1962 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, Dr. Fauci encouraged graduating seniors at Jesuit high schools around the country to “be smart, strong and resilient.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Divided court examines if religious schools exempt from discrimination laws
In this case, the court is asked to determine if the fired teachers fell under the “ministers” category and were therefore exempt from job discrimination protections.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic colleges and universities fight to avert fiscal disaster amid the coronavirus pandemic
What is the way forward for Catholic colleges? Most Catholic institutions are doing their best to survive on their own resources while hoping for an additional stimulus package from Congress.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Quarantine and Zoom lessons have taught me the value of in-person Catholic schools
Her five sons are keeping up with the curricula at home, writes Rachel Lu, but there is something missing: The energy and sense of purpose of a complete Christian community.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Cardinal Dolan’s praise for President Trump was a pastoral failure
Too often, our bishops respond by answering the questions that they wish people had instead of the ones they actually do have, Sam Sawyer, S.J., writes. It is a pastoral failure of communication that stems from a failure to listen.
Posted inFaith, Features
A visit to the rural Catholic college that has 171 students, 12 horses and zero textbooks
At Wyoming Catholic College, students study great books and the great outdoors.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
Readers react to Trump’s call with the U.S. bishops on Catholic education
On April 25, Catholic leaders joined a conference call with President Trump that was supposed to be about Catholic education. The aftermath of that meeting elicited many strong responses from America’s readers.