It has been a somewhat somber Catholic Schools Week for me, since in the Archdiocese of New York we recently announced that 24 of our schools will be closing at the end of this academic year.
In the daily battle of Catholic education it's easy to get lost in the grind.
That so many on university campuses feel their ideas are so perfect that they may now go on crusade to shut or shout down the ideas and opinions of others, is a more than worrisome sign.
Over the past five decades, we've moved from a culture permeated by religious faith to a culture that seems increasingly indifferent or cynical toward religion in general and Christianity in particular.
Bizarrely, Quebec is insisting that Catholics declare they are agnostic about Catholicism.
The falsity of the ideological construct of "diversity" is best understood by contrasting it to genuine diversity.
Blended learning's success in delivering academic dividends with financial efficiency could spell the future of Catholic education.
Cultivating a genuine intellectual life is fully in accord with the kind of being that we are.
I should like to introduce Stratford Caldecott's wonderful and much needed book with an anecdote, followed by a brief survey of the wasteland.
