While the overall child poverty rate may be historically low after a recovery from the pandemic, there are more specific measures of economic vulnerability for children that are still alarming.
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Several Catholic colleges will require Covid-19 vaccinations in the fall
As Catholic colleges grapple with how to reopen in the fall, many are already saying they will require their students to be vaccinated for COVID-19 and some schools are also mandating that staff members be vaccinated.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The human right to education is incomplete if Catholic school is not an option
The right to an education should respect parental priorities for what values should be learned in school, writes Quentin Wodon of the Global Catholic Education project, and that means school choice.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Down with Zoom school! Up with mystics! The case for the contemplative classroom
How do we speak to a generation that, at least on the surface, seems less and less prepared for the difficulties it will face?
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Our religious studies programs are in trouble. Here’s what we miss out on if we don’t save them.
The diminishing place of religion in higher education and for Christianity’s diminishing place in academia are a great loss to our educational institutions and intellectual life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Can we reimagine the sacramental life? Ask this poet/farmer/educator.
In this time when so much seems to be falling apart, the writer/philosopher/farmer Michael Martin is reimagining and even building anew.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Undocumented college students need financial aid now. They can’t wait for comprehensive immigration reform.
We cannot continue to punish the children of immigrants and create a caste of undereducated residents, write Mary Beth Yount and Michael M. Canaris. All college students should be eligible for federal loan and grant programs.
Posted inFaith, Features
Priests and lay women work together every day. The church is finally starting to train them together, too.
The human formation provided in integrated formation models for the priesthood results not only in healthier, more well-rounded priests but also helps advance the vision of Vatican II.
Posted inFaith, News
Vincent Rougeau named president of the College of the Holy Cross
On July 1, Vincent Rougeau, the dean of Boston College Law School, will become the next president of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.
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Catholic school enrollment is at its lowest in 50 years, new report says
Catholic school enrollment figures for the current school year—significantly impacted by the pandemic—dropped 6.4% or more than 111,000 students from the previous school year, which is the largest single year decline in almost 50 years.