Analysis
What have I learned in a community college?
A Latin proverb informs us: Discimus docendo (We learn by teaching). What have I learned these past five semesters? That the teachers’ unions have gotten […]
Catholic education
Essay
Saturdays with Father Schall: A young Jesuit on the older Jesuit’s 90th birthday
Father James V. Schall, SJ has been a source of encouragement to a younger generation of priests and scholars who are seeking to preserve a […]
Features
Fr. Thomas Reese’s quixotic, irrational battle with Greek philosophy
The former editor of America magazine would do well to read Benedict XVI’s 2005 “Regensburg Address” and Vatican II’s documents on seminary training and Catholic […]
Opinion
As Title IX guidelines change, Catholic schools need to protect the rights of all students
Some of prestigious Catholic colleges have routinely violated the civil rights of students by withholding due process protections from those accused of sexual assault. […]
Special Report
Catholic bookstores in the era of Amazon
Even as online shopping becomes more convenient and pervasive, there is no replacing the experience of walking into a store and interacting with a knowledgeable and helpful proprietor. This is particularly true of Catholic bookstores, […]
The Dispatch
Abp. Carlson reflects on Catholic education, secular media, Girl Scouts, “Amoris Laetitia”
Archbishop Robert Carlson, 72, has served as Archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri, since 2009. He is originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in 1970. He […]
The Dispatch
Conference at Seton Hall to focus on the role of the priest in today’s Catholic school
The Catholic Education Foundation is hosting its third annual seminar on the role of the priest in today’s Catholic school at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey (a ten-minute ride from Newark Airport) […]
The Dispatch
Squawk! Duquesne University’s LGBT group offended by Chick-fil-A
Emboldened by their recent high-profile protest of plans to bring Chick-fil-A to campus, Duquesne University’s gay-straight alliance announced that after several years of inactivity, their LGBT organization, Lambda, is “functional again” and committed to creating an […]
Analysis
Reason, the Catholic University, and the Morality of Abortion
Stéphane Mercier, a lecturer in philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (UCL) in Belgium initially was suspended from teaching, pending the outcome of disciplinary proceedings, because there was opposition in a class from a feminist group to his […]
Analysis
Classical educators optimistic about DeVos appointment, proposed policies
Citing her commitment to parental choice and subsidiarity, classical educators said they believe newly appointed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has the opportunity to do good and end the “one-size fits all” approach to education […]