To provide quality formation—human, academic, spiritual and pastoral—to our future priests is a sacred duty. We would be able to do this better if we had fewer seminaries, all of them excellent ones.
Catholic Education
Posted inFaith, Features
Catholic schools attracted students during the pandemic. Can they keep them?
Schools face changing realities, including geographic population shifts, questions about affordability and a generation of parents who are less likely to participate in Catholic life than their parents or grandparents were.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic schools in 2023 at a glance
Catholic schools have endured a whipsaw from the Covid-19 pandemic in recent years.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The charter school model has not-so-hidden dangers for Catholic education
Oklahoma has approved public funding for what would be the nation’s first Catholic charter school. What could be the trade-offs in terms of autonomy and religious freedom?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholic colleges: Do less if you want to save your religious mission
Many Catholic colleges are facing an existential crisis. The prudent strategy is to identify what makes them distinctive and seek a niche where they can flourish.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic universities say the end of affirmative action threatens their values and religious liberty
Calling the 6-to-3 decision handed down Thursday “more than disappointing,” the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities said that the court “ignores the more-than-apparent effects of continued racism in our society.”
Posted inFaith, Features
Young LGBT Catholics need to know they belong in the church. I’m creating a curriculum to tell them that.
Our hope is that, by the time a young person begins asking questions about their own sexual orientation, they already trust that there is a place for gay people in the Catholic Church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Jesuit Roger Haight’s lifetime of theological achievement
Roger Haight, S.J., was honored by the Catholic Theological Society of America this past weekend in Milwaukee for his contributions to academic theology and the church, a well-deserved tribute to a scholar who has endured much for his vocation as a theologian.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic virtual school approved by Oklahoma board would be first religious charter in the U.S.
A state school board in Oklahoma voted Monday to approve what would be the first publicly funded religious school in the nation, despite a warning from the state’s attorney general that the decision was unconstitutional.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
How Catholic high schools can address the teen mental health crisis
Life-threatening mental health concerns affecting U.S. teens have reached a crisis point, complicated by a laundry list of social issues.