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.
Higher Education
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Reject the cult of ‘intelligence.’ You’re worth more than that.
Any science that seeks to measure our worth by measuring one trait or another is science gone wrong.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Affirmative action is Catholic social teaching in action. We still need it.
Thoughtfully administered affirmative action, as endorsed by the U.S. bishops decades ago, is an incontrovertible part of our shared task to fight racism and promote equal opportunity.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Jesuit-educated Dr. Anthony Fauci to teach at Georgetown University
Georgetown University announced Monday that it has appointed Dr. Fauci the Distinguished University Professor in the School of Medicine’s department of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Do Catholic universities have a future?
The central concern of the Rev. James Heft in his new book is not only how “to preserve the continuity of the Catholic intellectual tradition, but also recognize how it might be adapted.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Faith in Focus
Writing music for the women of the Passion helped me embrace the contradictions of being Catholic
The Notre Dame Folk Choir was like a family I did not want to leave behind.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Can you be a theologian outside of academia? I’m going to find out.
A doctorate in theology does not qualify you for much outside of being a theology professor, and I have been nothing but a graduate student or professor since I was 21.
Posted inFaith, News
Traditional Latin Mass moves off Steubenville campus after Vatican restrictions
A Catholic university in Ohio is making alternate arrangements for students to attend what is commonly called the “traditional Latin Mass,” after the local bishop implemented recently issued restrictions from the Vatican.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
A Catholic bookworm’s guide to March Madness
America isn’t always great about sports coverage—but college basketball has been an exception, particularly when it comes to March Madness.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The Cambridge critics who revolutionized the way you read
With his new book ‘The Critical Revolutionaries,’ Terry Eagleton focuses on the scholars who revolutionized literary study and foreshadowed the New Criticism movement that became widespread in mid-century American universities.