When Anne Marie Becraft established her school in the midst of the nation’s and the church’s slaveholding elite, she powerfully declared that the lives of black people, especially women and girls, mattered.
Catholic Education
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Coronavirus prompts some Catholic colleges to halt international programs
Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, canceled its spring break study abroad program to Italy and several colleges have posted warnings about individual travel during the break on their websites.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Classical education is countercultural. It’s time to bring it back.
Anyone dissatisfied with the current state of elementary and high school education might ask why we don’t return to classical educational models.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
After student protest, Creighton University endorses plan to begin divestment from fossil fuels
Last November, 85.8 percent of voting students—2,438 in total—supported a nonbinding referendum that urged university trustees to sell off the then-10.6 percent of the university endowment that was invested in fossil fuel corporations by 2025.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Chicago’s $90 million plan to save its Catholic schools
Smiles have been plentiful at St. Ethelreda since Jan. 29, when the Big Shoulders Fund and the Archdiocese of Chicago announced a partnership that will inject more than $92 million into 30 Catholic schools.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic and public school teachers begin to strike in the face of education cuts
The job actions, which come alongside strikes by other teachers’ unions across the province, reflect a new breaking point in relations between public educators and the Progressive Conservative government of Ontario, led by Premier Doug Ford.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Catholic colleges finally win independence from the federal Labor Board
A federal court has ruled that religious colleges cannot be ordered to recognize adjunct faculty unions. John Garvey, the president of the Catholic University of America, explains why.
Posted inFaith, Features
How can Catholic colleges welcome the L.G.B.T. person?
Father James Martin on how to best care for people who have probably doubted they are loved by God.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
In an age of extreme individualism, Catholic schools are more important than ever
Traditional values can help individuals stay out of poverty, writes Kathleen Porter-Magee, and Catholic schools are still teaching them—resisting the slogan “do what feels good.”
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
How James G. Blaine became the face of anti-Catholicism in education
And what the editors of America magazine had to say about Blaine amendments