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May 2015

May 13, 2015

Snowflake Students: “We’re Too Fragile To Be Educated!”

I'm out of here for the day -- back to transcribing my book -- but...

May 13, 2015

Dear Graduate, about that college experience before you…

As I am still grappling with a deadline, I hope guestblogger Fr. Mike gives you,...

February 2015

February 14, 2015

Scott Walker and the MSM’s Fake Respect for Credentials

Well, the hacks are back. They've been mostly quiet, since 2008, but the 2016 election...

January 2015

January 19, 2015

Fearful Christians at Duke Will Make Secularists’ Job Easier

"Tolerance" as a concept has been so thoroughly bastardized by agendists using the word as...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

A culture of priestly vocation on campus

Dr. Timothy Muldoon is an award-winning author and Catholic theologian. He is a researcher in...

March 2014

March 17, 2014

Supposed to be teaching, “I feel like I’m babysitting!”

The email was a cry from the heart from someone who really wanted to do...

February 2014

February 05, 2014

Boom!: Patheos Catholic Bloggers Call for Um…Revolution! UPDATED

Yes, Revolution. It all started with Joanne McPortland, who we know is completely subversive. She...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

The New School: Saving Education from Itself

The Federal Reserve also found that those with student loan debt were less likely to...

October 2013

October 17, 2013

“What was Auschwitz?” “I don’t know…”

No rant here, just clear demonstration of our terrifying ignorance and disconnection from our recent...

October 08, 2013

Worst. Fairy Tale. Ever. Also, the woman on the bed…UPDATED

So, people have been asking me what I think about the Common Core curriculum and...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Ranting on the Loss of Cursive Writing

So, I found it excruciatingly painful to watch this video clip,. Excruciating because I love...

June 06, 2013

Remembering Bobby Kennedy and Missing Great Oratory

Today is the anniversary of the death of Robert F. Kennedy. On Facebook, Bishop Christopher...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

If Canonized She’ll be Barbara-the-Barnburner – UPDATED

There is nothing quite like an essay by Barbara Nicolosi. She is forthright; she is...

May 30, 2013

“A Very Safe Place” in a world so thin of them…

The value of a musical education begun during the early years of childhood has been...

May 29, 2013

Dissecting Bodies, Sex, Sin, Selves: Catholic, Muslim and Plasticine

A couple of days ago Muslimah Media Watch examined the way the media indulges in...

December 2012

December 15, 2012

Could Newtown Massacre be Latent Effect of Bullying?

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo is expressing embarrassment at just how much the press...

January 2012

January 09, 2012

Educating graphs on IL education

In this graph, the amount of money going to retirement benefits begins to look like...

February 2011

February 17, 2011

"Quality" Teachers for Wisconsin – UPDATED

Photosource, Althouse, taken by Meade. "I NEEN QUALITY TEACHERS." They need teachers who can instruct...

January 2011

January 26, 2011

US vs Tiger Mothers, Lion Fathers – UPDATED

Our Sunday Visitor is carrying a piece of mine looking at the controversial question of...

January 25, 2011

The Audacity of Wonder – UPDATED

Illustration Source) Over at First Things, my Tuesday Column is looking at our mania for...

November 2010

November 09, 2010

Holiness & Glory; New Concepts! – UPDATED

I like this piece by Tom Howard, a classics teacher who is looking at how...

September 2010

September 29, 2010

Kids in Chant; Kyrie Eleison

H/T Sr. Lisa

September 29, 2010

"Tenure" or "Tenor"? Oops!

Watch the graphics during the report. Heh. Gov. Chris Christie; "We may have to fire...

August 2010

August 25, 2010

The Force of Her Focus – UPDATED

Marks '10/Kris Snibble (Photosource) Readers may remember a post from the spring, featuring Mary Anne...

August 09, 2010

Receiving Communion at Age 6?

Horrible Little Girl on a Great Day, Age 6 There is a question being bandied...

July 2010

July 30, 2010

Ken Howell Update

The other day I wrote of the firing of U of I's Ken Howell, who...

July 08, 2010

Out of Chaos, Hope

Real hope, not rhetorical hope. This is very encouraging. How adorable are these kids? I...

July 03, 2010

Happy 4th, or, umm…UPDATES

When I was in elementary school, the typical class had 52 students, with one nun...

June 2010

June 21, 2010

Beautiful & Sad and all too true

Joseph Bottum tells a too true story: There are some real championship athletes on the...

June 17, 2010

Busybodies intrude on childhood friendship

Sometimes I wonder if "enlightened experts" ever had childhoods, . . . increasingly, some educators...