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May 2013

May 24, 2013

Cardinal Dolan’s Commencement Speech: “Let Me Tell You the Secret of Notre Dame…”

This is pretty wonderful: Cardinal Timothy Dolan's 2013 commencement speech at Notre Dame: Thank you,...

May 23, 2013

Service, Scholarship and Speaking in Tongues

And now for something a little different, from Canada: Pacific Academy in Surrey considers itself...

May 04, 2013

Educator says Catholic job offer was withdrawn after speculation that he is gay

Details of a surprising discrimination claim, from Wisconsin: A day after Regis Catholic Schools announced...

May 03, 2013

Plans approved for first mixed Catholic and Protestant school campus in Northern Ireland

Not so long ago, this idea would have been unthinkable: Northern Ireland's first shared education...

May 02, 2013

Carnegie Mellon president apologizes for “highly offensive” pope parody

You may remember this story from earlier. Details: A Carnegie Mellon University coed's semi-nude papal...

May 01, 2013

Gonzaga reverses decision, recognizes Knights of Columbus

You may remember this story from a few weeks back. Now, an update: A March...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Woman student in art parade dresses like pope—but naked from the waist down—UPDATED

But wait, there's more: At an annual art school parade [at Carnegie Mellon University], a...

April 29, 2013

BREAKING: Student shoots himself at Catholic high school in Cincinnati—UPDATED

Details: A student shot himself with a gun in front of classmates at his Cincinnati...

April 25, 2013

School says lesbian teacher was fired over “spousal relationship,” not because she’s gay

Details: A former teacher who said she was fired for being gay said she was...

April 22, 2013

When Catholic schools close

From The Record in Northern New Jersey comes this lengthy look at why Catholic schools...

April 17, 2013

Ohio Catholic school fires teacher living with gay partner

Details: A gay physical-education teacher who was fired from a Catholic high school in Clintonville...

April 05, 2013

Students start blog to support embattled chaplain

This is really quite remarkable. At a secular university, Catholic students have banded together to...

April 05, 2013

Catholic university blocks student group because it’s Catholic

You can't make this stuff up: Spokane's Gonzaga University has denied a Knights of Columbus...

April 04, 2013

Two gay college students try to have priest fired because he counsels students not to have sex—UPDATED

Is this from The Onion? No: Two gay seniors at George Washington University say they feel alienated because the...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

New York Catholic high school says gay teenagers can attend dance together

It will be interesting to see if this actually goes forward as planned—and what the...

March 22, 2013

California bishop delays requiring teachers to sign “morals” agreement

You may remember this controversial decision from a few weeks back. Now, the bishop is...

March 07, 2013

Notre Dame’s next commencement speaker: Cardinal Dolan

I can't think of a better choice for the Fighting Irish, can you? From the...

March 05, 2013

What we have come to: Yale marks “Sex Week” with workshop on bestiality, incest

According to its web page, Yale University traces its roots "back to the 1640s, when colonial...

March 05, 2013

Virginia school elects the new pope: Pope Sebastian I

Habemus papam! It happened yesterday at St. Louis School in Arlington, Virginia. In a post,...

March 01, 2013

California diocese requires teachers to sign agreement on “modern errors”

Details: The Santa Rosa Catholic Diocese is requiring its 200 schoolteachers to sign an agreement...

February 2013

February 16, 2013

Woodstock Theological Center to close in June

From NCR: After almost 40 years as a leading U.S. institution of Catholic theological research...

February 05, 2013

Crying foul: Catholic school changes policy, opens no-cursing pledge to boys

An update on a story from the weekend. From our Potty Mouth Desk: ...

February 03, 2013

Catholic school enacts a “no swearing pledge”…but only for girls

Details: Catholic school girls think it’s just plain sexist that they were asked to take...

January 2013

January 08, 2013

Catholic University to launch new business school, teaching marketing and morals

From the Wall Street Journal: Confident that aspiring corporate leaders want to worship more than...

January 06, 2013

How can you save Catholic schools?

Bob Faw looks at that question in this incisive story for PBS's "Religion & Ethics...

January 01, 2013

Ohio teacher claims she was fired over pregnancy, sues archdiocese

Details: A former first-grade teacher at Kettering’s Ascension Catholic School is suing the school, Ascension...

December 2012

December 29, 2012

Love lessons: watch this teacher set his class on fire

I'll be perfectly honest here: I just love this story. Take 12 minutes and watch...

December 19, 2012

A novel idea for Christmas

How kids at one Catholic high school in Bloomington, Illinois are learning—and giving: Connor Sheehan,...

November 2012

November 25, 2012

“You can’t be a Democrat and go to heaven”

Really? That statement, scrawled by a teacher on a classroom whiteboard, is the center of...

November 16, 2012

Great moments in academia: Fordham slams Ann Coulter, welcomes Peter Singer

Details: Late last week, the College Republicans announced on Facebook that they would be having...