Good news from The Catholic Herald: A few months ago, one of our Catholic Herald reporters was assigned to a story looking into the effects of the Milwaukee Parental Choice program on our archdiocesan schools. Legislation passed late last summer allowing the program to expand into Milwaukee and Racine counties, and we were curious...
Are Catholic schools closing because Catholicism is in decline, or is Catholicism in decline because Catholic schools are closing? That’s just one of the questions Lynn Doyle asks of her guests in this 24-minute program. She begins her show with guest Jerry Davis, one of the members of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Blue Ribbon...
Is there anything nuns can’t do? Six Dominican “foundress” nuns stepped off a flat-bottom boat on a freezing New Year’s Eve in 1851 to start St. Agnes Academy, the oldest continuously operating school in West Tennessee. On Friday, the spirit of their service and faith was chiseled in every detail of the school’s 160th...
Which Philadelphia Catholic schools will close? That’s the question on the minds of many Catholics in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia this week. The results of Philadelphia’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Catholic Education will be made public on Friday, January 6. The members of the Commission were appointed by Cardinal Justin Rigali just over a...
“The Church worldwide is in the midst of a Catholic education boom,” writes Jeff Ziegler in a new article from The Catholic World Report. But, he continues, “In the midst of this Catholic education boom worldwide, the Church in the United States has suffered a dramatic decline in its education apostolate.” Ziegler’s article offers...
With profound gratitude, Dr. Wayne Yakes speaks about how Central Catholic High School in San Antonio, Texas changed his life: H/T to Billy Calzada
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