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January 06, 2013

How can you save Catholic schools?

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

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...

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...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

World’s oldest active teacher is a Jesuit

Details: Guinness World Records has honored a Jesuit with the record of world’s oldest active...

September 2012

September 22, 2012

How come two of the “Top Catholic” high schools aren’t even Catholic?

After a reader checked out this post from earlier in the week, the following e-mail...

September 20, 2012

“Top 50 Catholic High Schools” includes one from Queens — UPDATED

In fact, this building is where I studied for the diaconate —for five years, it...

September 03, 2012

Growing number of Muslims enrolling in Catholic colleges

Details, from the New York Times: Arriving from Kuwait to attend college here, Mai Alhamad...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

Catholic school uniforms: the thigh’s the limit

A staple of the Catholic school girl's uniform is beginning to disappear. Check this...

August 20, 2012

NY Times: Some Catholic schools retooling for the wealthy

Details: Catholic schools have been bleeding enrollment and money for years, and many have been...

August 16, 2012

Forbes: six Catholic universities in top 100, Notre Dame ranked highest

From Tony Spence at CNS: Forbes magazine has issued its annual U.S. college and university rankings....

June 2012

June 10, 2012

WSJ: Vouchers breathe new life into Catholic schools

How's this for a little good news: Chicago Catholic elementary schools saw enrollment increase 3%...

June 02, 2012

Chicago’s Catholic schools at a crossroads

The Chicago Tribune looks this weekend at some trends in Catholic education -- and finds,...

May 2012

May 05, 2012

Georgetown, the pope would like a word with you

He addressed a timely issue during today's remarks to American bishops: Pope Benedict XVI called...

May 02, 2012

Is student debt contributing to the vocation crisis? — UPDATED

A recent study from CARA says, "Yes": With accumulated educational debt increasing by five percent yearly...

May 01, 2012

For all you college students out there…

Good luck. You're in my prayers.

March 2012

March 31, 2012

Catholic school to name center after Bill and Camille Cosby

Details: A historic Baltimore Catholic school will name its community center in honor of Bill...

March 12, 2012

Study: Catholics a minority at America’s largest Catholic university

Details: A study of student faiths at DePaul, deemed the largest Catholic University in the...

January 2012

January 13, 2012

Inside The Heights, exclusive school for conservative DC Catholics

The New York Times takes a look at the school where Rick Santorum sent two...

October 2011

October 27, 2011

New York's new sex ed curriculum: birds, bees, bestiality

And that's just for starters. Explicit content to follow. Details: Sex ed, which becomes mandatory...

October 03, 2011

Shock: ACLU backs right of 12-year-old girl to wear rosary to school

An apt news item for the beginning of October, the month of the rosary, don't...

September 2011

September 26, 2011

The City of Angels seeks angels for Catholic schools

Got a hundred million bucks to spare? The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has a good...

September 06, 2011

A prayer for teachers at the start of the school year

Dear God, A new school year is about to begin and my classroom door will...

September 03, 2011

Australia moves to eliminate B.C. and A.D. from textbooks

Christians Down Under are outraged over changes in the national school curriculum that would remove...

July 2011

July 07, 2011

California passes bill requiring schools to teach gay history

It happened late Tuesday: A bill to require California public schools to teach the historical...

April 2011

April 11, 2011

Shock: Catholic colleges supporting Planned Parenthood

Tim Drake over at the National Catholic Register has the scoop: A new report, “A Scandalous...

April 10, 2011

Class act: a Catholic grammar school embraces a classical education

It's happening in suburban Washington, D.C. -- and the Washington Post this weekend sat up...