Taking women seriously as students, staff and faculty means that the Jesuit institution considers them as essential to its mission.
Education
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘The Chair’ was uncomfortable to watch as a recent college grad. And that’s the point.
Social justice scandals play out in Netflix’s newest hit “The Chair”, echoing college campuses across the country. The show’s empathy is remarkable, but as a recent graduate, some scenes hit too close to home.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
In defense of a classical education
Classical education provides students with exactly the analytical tools that they need—logic, philosophy, rhetoric, poetry, history—to both grasp and critique the great books, taking both their original context and their modern significance into account.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
‘I am very grateful I taught girls’: teaching theology at a Jesuit school for young women
A graduate of Regis Jesuit High School in Denver interviews her former theology teacher on her experiences in and out of the classroom.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
‘When does it end?’ Parents on the most stressful back-to-school season of the pandemic
Families are trying to be hopeful and trying to keep perspective. But they’re also anxious, frustrated and exhausted.
Posted inFaith, Features
Richard Rohr’s Living School is no utopia. But it taught me to love our imperfect world.
The school offers an accessible but thorough examination of the Christian contemplative tradition by combining online study with in-person symposiums.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Blended virtual learning, longer school days and fidelity to the magisterium: The experiment that could change the future of Catholic education
A new Catholic secondary school in the Archdiocese of Boston will combine virtual instruction and in-person activities. The founder of Lumen Verum Academy, Thomas W. Carroll, writes about this new model.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
How do you teach high school boys to love?
A Jesuit education invites students to love themselves and the world anew.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Whatever and ever Amen: Two Gen-X Catholics remember classic retreat songs.
Did the singer-songwriter era come about specifically to fill a demand by retreat directors for a poignant soundtrack to accompany the spiritual epiphanies of 16-year-olds?
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Forget Plato’s philosopher-kings. We need philosopher folks.
What if instead of a few philosopher-kings magnanimously steering the unruly mob, we focused on building a democracy full of philosopher folks?