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Fr. Ted’s Big Trade
May 2020Hesburgh departed from the idea of creating a distinctive institution in the Catholic intellectual tradition, settling instead for making it more American and worldly.
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A See of the Second-Rate
March 2019The norm among the men who wear miters — men who are supposed to possess powers of discernment — appears to be gaffes, ill judgment, and an apparent blindness to reason.
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The New Hate Speech: Catholic Teaching at a Catholic College
May 2018An affirmation of Church teaching at Providence College is seen by students and administrators as an act of "homophobia" and "transphobia" that warrants intimidation and threats because it's an offense against the PC narrative.
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Catechesis & the Average Catholic
July-August 2015The average American Catholic is a 48-year-old woman married to a Catholic spouse with whom she has two children. She attends Mass at least once a month, puts $10 in the collection, and is not very active in her parish.
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Where Have All the Students Gone?
March 2012Media coverage of Catholic school closings in city after city raises a certain question that isn't asked, and that few can even imagine asking.
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Catholic Science Textbooks Swept Away
December 2011Any approach to teaching science must begin with certain attitudes and assumptions about the nature of the world around us.
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Moving Beyond the 'Yellow Armadillo'
October 2008While many Church officials and patrons are still intent on erecting ugly novelty churches, some architects are taking a different approach.
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A Question of Conviction
September 2008When sacrilegious art -- like a painting depicting the Virgin Mary wearing a G-string -- appears on a Catholic campus, what should be the proper response?
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Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning
June 2002Classical education fosters the patient acquisition of the perennial arts of learning rather than the rapid accumulation of momentarily 'relevant' bodies of knowledge.
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The Art of True Education
June 2002He who is nurtured in an educational environment in which the true, the good, and the beautiful are rightly cultivated will, Plato argues, 'become noble and good' and 'salute' reason.
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Conformed to the World?
October 2001Even the brightest graduates of diocesan Catholic schools are idiots.
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What's Your Score on the S.A.T. (Salvation Aptitude Test)?
April 1999If this exam seems easy, you might want to try it out on your local Catholic-school eighth-grader or high-schooler.
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No Premarital Sex? It's News to Catholic Students
February 1999In a place where young minds are supposed to be in training, the bodies are apparently active and the minds are apparently unengaged.
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"Ed Speak" Invades Catholic Schools
December 1998State licensing and certification lend legitimacy to “experts” but, as the Teacher from Nazareth remarked, by their fruits ye shall know them.
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