The Supreme Court has limited the consideration of race in admissions, but Catholic schools may still pursue diversity by selecting students likely to advance social justice after they graduate.
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Posted inFaith, Features
Bill Russell, K.C. Jones and the Black players who made basketball history at San Francisco’s Jesuit university
Men’s college basketball’s finest squad did not come from one of the N.C.A.A. powerhouses of the past three decades, but from the University of San Francisco, where Bill Russell led the team to consecutive national championships in 1955 and 1956.
Posted inFaith, Your Take
How Jesuit universities can stay true to their identity
Three Jesuit university leaders reflect on Cardinal Blase J. Cupich’s piece exploring how Jesuit universities can hold true to their mission.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Pope Francis has challenged theologians. But are we bold enough to respond?
In his new apostolic letter, Pope Francis called for a new hermeneutical and methodological framework that is not averse to confronting the complexities, fragilities and vulnerabilities of our times.
Posted inGoodNews, Politics & Society
In South Africa, an education program changes a refugee child’s life
Three2Six offers a basic education to undocumented migrant and refugee children, many of whom are barred from South Africa’s public schools because of their residency status.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
When the Vatican investigated Margaret Farley for her book on Catholic sexual ethics
In 2012, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared that ‘Just Love,’ by Margaret Farley, R.S.M., could not be used in Catholic classrooms. It was a different era in the church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
A Jesuit Thanksgiving football tradition turns 100
On Nov. 23, the Fordham Prep Rams and the Xavier Knights will meet on Thanksgiving Day for the 100th time, a landmark matchup for the fourth-oldest high school football rivalry in American history.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
The Gen Z Catholic Retreat Music Playlist
Whether you know it as Kairos, Spark, Magis or Encounter, we bet there was a song playing in the background that involved a banjo, a scraggly-bearded lead vocalist and lyrics about finding yourself through struggle.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Jesuits and nuns team up to bring education to vulnerable African girls
There are just under 20 million primary-grade girls out of school in sub-Saharan Africa. The Bakhita Partnership for Education is working to change that.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Dear Catholic high schools: Don’t make theology an afterthought
High school is the perfect time to engage teenagers.