“In their efforts to be men who show respect, men who seek to serve, men who want to offer hope, our students offer witness that bad behavior and cynicism do not have to be the end of this story.”
Education
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Five ways to safeguard children everywhere
The U.S. bishops’ Dallas Charter to protect minors is working. Its principles should be applied to all Americans who work with children.
Posted inFaith, Your Take
Do school vouchers serve the common good?
“Tax credits for middle- and low-income parents who choose private schools are fine. But taking away resources from the already sinfully underfunded public school to benefit private schools is wrong on every level.”
Posted inFaith, News
Ex-Marquette president asks name be removed from new hall
A former president of Marquette University has asked the Milwaukee school to remove his name from a new residence hall.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Don’t go back to your school without learning its real rules of discipline
Improve your academic experience by familiarizing yourself with the rights and responsibilities of students, parents and everyone in the school community.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Our teens are leaving the church. Why?
Rejection of the church is rooted in (among other things) a fundamental misunderstanding of what the church has actually taught.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The vocation of the theologian begins with an invitation
Most people just don’t know that their pondering about life, about what really matters, is called theology.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Montessori schools are exceptionally successful. So why aren’t there more of them?
The Montessori Method is not only superior to all alternatives, but categorically so.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
“Students in Catholic schools exhibit more self-discipline than those in other public schools,” study says
A new study conducted by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that children in Catholic schools are less disruptive and have more self-control than their peers in non-Catholic or public schools.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: Mr. Rogers is still a good guy in the documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
The movie about children’s TV host Fred Rogers, directed by Morgan Neville (“Twenty Feet From Stardom”), is sturdy and unavoidably sentimental.