Will the ministerial exception help protect your Catholic school or college? Short answer: It depends on you. Ever since the Supreme Court鈥檚 rulings in Hosanna-Tabor (2012) and Our Lady of Guadalupe School (2020), the term 鈥渕inisterial exception鈥 has become common parlance for Catholic educators. But there is much about the […]
As the U.S. Bishops prepare to kick-off a聽three-year revival聽on devotion and belief in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, I have been reflecting on how faithful Catholic education is key to the success of this revival. It is the Church鈥檚 primary means of evangelization. Consider聽Christendom College聽in Front […]
Recently, the Vatican issued a call for stronger Catholic identity in Catholic education. But will it do any good? The short answer: Yes, I think it will. The Congregation for Catholic Education鈥檚 new instruction on schools, 鈥淭he Identity of a Catholic School for a Culture of Dialogue,鈥 published March 29, […]
In December 2021, the witness of faithful Catholic educators helped persuade the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to include broad protection for the mission of religious colleges in the Association鈥檚 new constitution. Although the NCAA also took new steps to embrace gender ideology, the accommodation to religious colleges was a […]
Imagine losing your job, simply because you prayed after a sporting event. That鈥檚 exactly what happened to Joseph Kennedy in Washington State鈥攁nd it鈥檚 yet another example of hostility to Christianity in public schools. Back in 2015, Kennedy lost his head football coaching job at Bremerton High School, because he refused […]
Last week, hundreds of students from faithful Catholic colleges traveled to Washington, D.C., for the March for Life, which went full-steam ahead after canceling last year and in spite of citywide COVID restrictions. Many colleges sent delegations, some of them quite large, but there is something especially heartening about the […]
Last summer, I聽wrote聽about the urgency of holding a 鈥渃rucial line of defense for Catholic education鈥 against false ideology and attacks on Christian morality 鈥 and now, a key victory has been won in federal court! On Dec. 13, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals聽ruled聽unanimously that Fuller […]
Here鈥檚 some great news, just in time for the holy feast of Christmas: At the last moment before approving its new revised constitution, the governing board of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) added broad protection for Catholic and other religious colleges to continue participating in the college association. The […]
Athletics has long been an important part of Catholic education in the United States, but trouble is brewing. Already schools and colleges face social and legal pressure to abandon their Catholic mission and conform to gender ideology by allowing biological males to play on girls鈥 sports teams and enter locker […]
What kind of lunacy must this be, when the Pope unambiguously calls abortion 鈥渕urder,鈥 yet a Catholic university hosts a fundraiser to support America鈥檚 largest abortion business? Or when students at a Catholic high school walk out in protest of a pro-life speaker? Or Catholic college students compete for numbers […]