Yesterday nbsp I wrote about nbsp the connection between education and Emmaus noting that in failing to recognize Jesus the disciples were failing to recognize not just the person of Jesus but by extension truth itself This has direct implications for educators and education It is not enough t

On the Ignatian Educator, Matt Emerson asks: what kept the first disciples, and what keeps us, from recognizing the resurrected Jesus right in front of them?

Good news is emerging from Milwaukee As reported by the the Journal Sentinel A Catholic work-study high school aligned with a nationwide network of schools will open in the fall of 2015 in a south side Milwaukee suburb the Midwest Jesuits nbsp of the Wisconsin and Chicago-Detroit Provinces and th

Boston College announced today that Secretary of State John Kerry will deliver the address at the school 39 s 138th commencement exercises According to the student-run newspaper The Heights Kerry a 1976 graduate of Boston College Law School will also receive an honorary doctor of laws degree

The search for truth begins in great questions Without great questions a soul never awakens to its own possibilities The Church has always understood this In nbsp Nostra Aetate nbsp the Second Vatican Council 39 s nbsp Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions t

Writing in today 39 s nbsp Wall Street Journal Josh Mandel says quot it is becoming increasingly hard to defend the vanishing of shop class from the curriculum quot According to Mandel nbsp Too many young people have four-year liberal-arts degrees are thousands of dollars in debt and find the

On the Ignatian Educator blog, Matt Emerson reflects on what Jesus' post-Resurrection call "to go to Galiliee" means for students in Catholic schools.

Among much to read and consider this Holy Saturday and Easter weekend I commend to readers Rod Dreher 39 s wonderful and searingly honest essay in today 39 s Wall Street Journal wherein he discusses Dante 39 s Divine Comedy nbsp and the profound ways it helped nbsp him through a very difficult

Over at First Things Matthew Gerken reports that Yale 39 s quot campus pro-life group mdash after a year in which they participated in meetings and even helped raise money for the organization mdash became the first group in living memory to be denied membership in the Social Justice Network of D

The Gospels reveal two threshold moments of disownment Everyone is familiar with Judas 39 s betrayal but we forget about Peter nbsp At one of Jesus rsquo most desperate hours during his trial before the Sanhedrin His crucifixion imminent Peter denied knowing Christ Peter The rock Three ti