Eight months into his presidency, advocates of “school choice” wonder if the president will be able to deliver on his promise.
Catholic Education
Posted inFaith, Your Take
How did your faith change in college?
Readers who attended secular colleges were less likely to report that their faith was strengthened in college.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholic campuses should look outward to the larger church
Colleges and universities need to broaden their call to discipleship to stretch beyond the campus.
Posted inFaith, News
Notre Dame great Ara Parseghian was a supporter of school’s Catholic faith
Legendary University of Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian died Aug. 2 at age 94.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A better way to teach teenage boys about the Virgin Mary
Talking about Mary at an all-boys Jesuit high school isn’t easy. But art helps.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Pastoral work and theology cannot be separated
The distinction between the disciplines of theological work and how these function in our common life is necessary.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
The President of Notre Dame on the Goals of Catholic Higher Education
This week’s podcast features John Jenkins, C.S.C., the president of the University of Notre Dame. Father Jenkins recently wrote a cover story for America marking the 50-year anniversary of the Land O’ Lakes Statement, a seminal document on Catholic higher education in the United States. The document, issued in 1967, has been contested in the […]
Posted inFaith, News
Report: Hundreds of boys abused at German choir school
At least 547 members of a prestigious Catholic boys’ choir in Germany were physically or sexually abused between 1945 and 1992, according to a report released Tuesday.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
It is time to get past the snobbery against pastoral theologians
Pastoral theologians are attentive to the actual experience of believers trying to live their Christian lives.
Posted inFaith, Features
The document that changed Catholic education forever
Although most agree that the Land O’ Lakes statement has had a pervasive influence on Catholic higher education over the last 50 years, many have seen its influence as unconstructive or simply pernicious.