Education, Catholic

U.S. Catholic school report highlights steady enrollment, school choice

03/27/2024 at 8:59 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Kate Quinos, Catholic News Agency Staff, March 21, 2024 Following three years of modest growth, enrollment in Catholic education has remained stable since 2023, according to new data made public Wednesday by the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA).   The NCEA, which... read more

Almost All Catholic Women’s Colleges Admit Men Who Identify as Women

02/16/2024 at 7:32 PM By Kevin Edward White
Some cite Catholicism as inspiration for ‘trans’ policies. By Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register, February 16, 2024 When a media storm hit last fall after word leaked that a prominent Catholic women’s college in Indiana planned to admit males who identify as women, the... read more

‘Every child deserves the opportunity to thrive’: New Orleans Saints owner funds new Catholic school

01/10/2024 at 8:43 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Zoe Romanowsky/CNA Staff, Catholic News Agency, January 7, 2024 New Orlean’s Good Shepherd School, which serves low-income urban youth, received an extraordinary Christmas gift this year: a large financial gift from New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans owner Gayle... read more

The belles of St. Mary’s: College rescinds transgender policy

12/21/2023 at 4:43 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Michelle La Rosa, the Pilot, December 21, 2023 . 2:10 PM   St. Mary’s College, a women’s college in South Bend, Indiana, has decided not to implement its plan to enroll male students who identify as female. The change was announced in a Dec. 21 email to the college community,... read more

Bishop Rhoades urges St. Mary’s College to ‘correct’ new policy allowing trans applicants

11/29/2023 at 5:40 PM By Kevin Edward White
Rhoades claims the issue lies in the Catholic college embracing a definition of woman he says is “not Catholic.” By Jazlynn Beboutt, 21AliveNews.com, November 29, 2023 SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WPTA)- Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese is speaking out against a policy... read more

UPDATE: Indiana Catholic women’s college now accepting men who identify as women

11/28/2023 at 3:55 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Joe Bukuras, Cathoplic News Agency, Nolvember 27, 2023 Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana — historically a school for undergraduate women — will now be accepting men who identify as women. The school’s president confirmed the change to students and faculty in an... read more

After Years in the Wilderness, Conservative Christian Education Is Being Born Again Post-Pandemic

11/28/2023 at 1:19 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Vince Bieleski, RealClearInvestigations, August 17, 2023 New, state-funded school choice programs make it easier for students from poor families to afford tuition. Above, student athletes at Pusch Ridge Christian Academy, serving mostly Latinos on the south side of... read more

To St. Mary’s College:

11/27/2023 at 4:53 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Amy Welborn, Charlotte Was Both, November 27, 2023 It was recently announced that in June 2023, the Catholic, historically women’s college St. Mary’s in South Bend, Indiana, made a change to its admissions policy: Saint Mary’s College is a Catholic women’s college.... read more

CRITICS OF BISHOP McMANUS FALL FLAT

08/29/2023 at 10:40 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Bill Donohue, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, August 29, 2023 If professed vegetarians publicly criticized a vegetarian association for insisting that its members follow a vegetarian diet, no one would listen to them. Why is it that when a member of the Catholic clergy... read more

Poor formation in faith has left Church too weak to fight, says San Francisco archbishop

08/14/2023 at 10:22 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald, August 14, 2023 Inadequate religious education and formation of U.S. Catholics in their faith has weakened the Church when it is being “explicitly attacked”, a senior American archbishop has said. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco said... read more

Groups sue to block Catholic charter school in Oklahoma; state leaders stand firm

08/06/2023 at 11:52 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency, August 2, 2023 Nine Oklahoma residents and several interest groups, including the ACLU and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, filed a lawsuit against state leaders to block the sponsorship and funding for the first approved Catholic charter school... read more

Catholic University in California Pays for Students’ Abortions

07/20/2023 at 9:37 PM By Kevin Edward White

Portland-area Catholic schools are at a crossroads over transgender, nonbinary student rights

06/26/2023 at 2:08 PM By Kevin Edward White

Canadian parents push back against gay pride flag in Catholic school district; police called

04/28/2023 at 6:28 PM By Kevin Edward White

Pilot who offered women flights to abortion-friendly states fired from job teaching at Catholic seminary

04/25/2023 at 7:40 AM By Kevin Edward White

Supreme Court Tells Maine to Stop Religiously Discriminating. Maine Gets Creative, Does It Anyway.

04/06/2023 at 4:00 PM By Kevin Edward White

Students protest Catholic university’s decision to cut theology and religious studies major, numerous other programs

03/09/2023 at 1:33 PM By Kevin Edward White

‘Abortion Doula’ at Notre Dame Speaker Series Adds to Catholic Concern

03/07/2023 at 7:19 AM By Kevin Edward White

Why Was a Canadian Student Expelled From Catholic School for Opposing Transgender Bathroom Policy?

02/19/2023 at 9:00 PM By Kevin Edward White

Catholic schools’ biggest challenge? Boston superintendent says it’s a ‘lack of vision’

02/03/2023 at 5:21 PM By Kevin Edward White