One of the greatest influences in my life has been Catholic education. In my Catholic parochial grade school, I first learned what it meant to be a follower of...
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In June the U.S. Supreme Court struck down what had been considered a sacrosanct civil rights achievement, ruling affirmative action programs at Harvard...
The photograph, depicting robed and hooded KKK members gathered in a church, in front of a banner reading JESUS SAVES, is spiritually grotesque. And morally...
Got a burning question? Click here to Ask an Apostle. Q: It’s time to decide where to send our oldest child to school for kindergarten. We are torn between our...
“I attended Mother McAuley as a white student from Mount Greenwood. Issues surrounding race didn’t affect me. Today, I have Hispanic daughters who attend...
Got a burning question? Click here to Ask an Apostle. Q: I want to send my teenager to a Catholic high school, but she doesn’t want to go because all...
“I would fight to the death for you,” I said with absolute resolve. Although I meant every word, anxiety pulsed with each heartbeat, and I prayed that a calm...
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed school buildings across the country last spring, teachers, families, and students anxiously wondered how they could possibly...
It’s the Moon of Snowblindness on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. It’s been a cold March with the temperature often below zero. The road passes Wounded Knee...
For most of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, educators, students, and families alike were just hanging on to survive school in the midst of a pandemic. Some...
