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October 2015

October 16, 2015

The long view

I am reading a fine collection of essays entitled Christianity and the Disciplines, which invites...

September 2015

September 14, 2015

In loco parentis

Xavier University of Louisiana produces more black medical school students than any other institution in the...

August 2015

August 04, 2015

Peer review and the sin of pride

There's a recent fascinating story of a rising high-school freshman whose work exposed a professor's myth....

July 2015

July 08, 2015

Pope Francis address at Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador

Yesterday Pope Francis gave an address to representatives of schools and universities at the...

June 2015

June 25, 2015

College and vocation

Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed recently interviewed Tim Clydesdale, professor of sociology at the College...

June 10, 2015

Review Essay: Paul Shrimpton, The Making of Men

In 1848 an Oxford don named Charles Daman, a close friend of John Henry Newman...

June 01, 2015

The faith that teaching requires

Amidst the eros for metrics in higher education, it is easy to lose focus on...

May 2015

May 07, 2015

Can Catholic universities end poverty?

Sister Amata Miller, I.H.M. is a professor of economics, director of the Myser Initiative...

May 04, 2015

Babel or cosmopolis?

Katarina Schuth, O.S.F., the Endowed Chair for the Social Scientific Study of Religion at the...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Catholic universities and nonviolence

In light of the situation that has unfolded in Baltimore in recent days, we who...

April 07, 2015

Become who you are

UCA News offers a compelling story of Rusty Quintana, a once-homeless boy who graduated from...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

The meaning of meaning

At the heart of any intellectual exercise is meaning-making. Whether I am using a microscope...

March 26, 2015

Catholic universities and ecology

Catholic universities are in a position to impact one of the areas of great need...

March 17, 2015

Benedict and Francis: two models for the modern Catholic university

The challenge to Catholic higher education today is different from those of a generation or...

February 2015

February 11, 2015

Faith in higher education

Last Wednesday, the presidents of Catholic University of America, Yeshiva University, and Baylor University--three of the...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

Education for religious life

America Magazine has published a summary of the recent study of professed religious men and...

January 21, 2015

Cosmopolitanism and Catholicism

Universities are complex places that influence young minds. Sometimes that influence is scattershot: a little...

January 14, 2015

An originating Jesuit mission at the university

Robert John Araujo, S.J., the John Courtney Murray, S.J. Professor of Law at Loyola University...

January 05, 2015

The Atlantic: a new brand of Jesuit university?

Autumn Jones writes a helpful piece in The Atlantic (12/30/14) titled "The New Brand of...

December 2014

December 02, 2014

Newman’s vision

Joe Humphreys at the Irish Times asks whether John Henry Newman's vision for Catholic universities...

November 2014

November 14, 2014

The UCA Martyrs

Sunday November 16 marks the 25th anniversary of the murder of six Jesuits, their housekeeper,...

November 13, 2014

Bishops’ accreditation?

Over at Aleteia, Randall B. Smith considers the college accreditation process, and argues that bishops could...

November 05, 2014

The spirituality of the question

What drives the life of the intellect is something that itself is not intellectual: namely,...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Theology Needs Science (and vice versa)

Theology needs science. So writes William C. Mattison, a moral theologian at the Catholic University...

October 22, 2014

Patricia McGuire, Trinity Washington University

America Magazine is doing interviews of the presidents of three Washington, D.C. area Catholic universities....

October 17, 2014

Catholic intellectual tradition

Below are excerpts from a paper I published in 2009 in the journal Logos: A Journal...

October 09, 2014

God, knowledge, and the university

Stephen Hawking’s recent pronouncement that there is no God was unsurprising, given his past considerations...

October 02, 2014

“The Idea of a Catholic College” conference reflections

My friend and colleague Jason King has written a cogent reflection on the Catholic Moral...

October 01, 2014

The theology of the Mercy university

I'm energized by my attendance at the recent Conference of Mercy Higher Education gathering, which...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Education for mercy

In this era of skyrocketing costs of higher education, it is important to remind ourselves of...