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.
Catholic Education
Posted inJesuit School Spotlight
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.
Posted inFaith and Reason
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.
Posted inNews
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.
Posted inFaith in Focus
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.”
Posted inFaith, News
NBC’s Tom Llamas says Jesuit education deepened his faith, pushed him to always do his best
When Miami native Tom Llamas was named “NBC Nightly News” anchor following the retirement of Lester Holt, one of the first phone calls he placed was to the rector/president of his Jesuit high school alma mater.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Can theology survive the crisis in Catholic higher education?
The world of academic theology is facing the cumulative effect of long-building forces, forces reshaping not only theology but the entire structure of higher education.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
How Catholics can make school choice programs a tool for social justice
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling denying state funds to a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma. What should American Catholics be asking about public funding for school choice?
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
A March Madness to remember: The St. Joseph’s Hawks’ 2004 N.C.A.A. run
In 2004, the St. Joseph’s University men’s basketball team made a long run in the N.C.A.A. tournament, falling just short of the Final Four. This excerpt from Aaron Bracy’s ‘A Soaring Season’ tells part of that thrilling story.