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A scene from the film Dead Poets Society of students outside in gym gear carrying their professor, played by Robin Williams
Arts & CultureIdeas
Elizabeth Grace Matthew
Mr. Keating and his real-life counterparts now dominate secondary and post secondary education. That’s a problem.
Students from Fordham Prep and other Viva House volunteers join Brendan Walsh, at left in dark blue shirt, and his wife Willa Bickham, standing below, on the steps of Viva House in Baltimore, Md., in March 2023.
FaithJesuit School Spotlight
Michael G. Considine
In 1960, three young men graduated from Fordham Preparatory School and set out on paths that would painfully clash as the Vietnam War unfolded. 
FaithFaith and Reason
Leo Guardado
Gustavo Gutiérrez’s 'A Theology of Liberation' was first published in English 50 years ago. That first edition served as a primary introduction to a new way of doing theology and becoming church with the poor and insignificant.
FaithFeatures
Maggie Phillips
Schools face changing realities, including geographic population shifts, questions about affordability and a generation of parents who are less likely to participate in Catholic life than their parents or grandparents were.
FaithFeatures
Cecilia González-Andrieu
The Holy Spirit’s work in the world is to orient and nurture creation continually toward the God of life and beauty.
Suzanne Krumpelman, counselor at St. Joseph School in Fayetteville, Ark., reads to first graders about friendship Feb. 9, 2022, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Catholic mental health professionals and diocesan officials, young people face considerable mental health challenges -- and the adults in their lives need to listen. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Travis McAfee, Arkansas Catholic)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
America Staff
Catholic schools have endured a whipsaw from the Covid-19 pandemic in recent years.
FaithYour Take
Our readers
In her feature, Eve Tushnet describes a curriculum she is creating to welcome young L.G.B.T. Catholics. The article elicited numerous responses from our readers.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Lee Nash
All night, God peers from his gilded case, nothing to do but wait for morning
Arts & CulturePoetry
Shann Ray
God dwells in the thick darkness
Politics & SocietyNews
Kate Scanlon - OSV News
The president of the March for Life said in the group “is encouraged by the 5th Circuit’s acknowledgment of the FDA’s reckless decision to lift critical safeguards related to the administration of powerful drugs used in chemical abortion.”
Catholic schools may lose the ability to enforce dress codes, among other policies, if they “go public” and become charter schools. In this 2016 file photo, students in dress shirts and sweaters read at their desks at Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School in Takoma Park, Md. (OSV Newsnphoto/CNS file, Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kathleen Porter-Magee
Oklahoma has approved public funding for what would be the nation’s first Catholic charter school. What could be the trade-offs in terms of autonomy and religious freedom?
FaithScripture Reflections
Alessandra Rose
A Reflection for Thursday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Alessandra Rose
FaithNews
Maria Wiering - Catholic News Service
An Alabama priest disgraced after abandoning his parish to travel to Italy with an 18-year-old woman described himself as “married” to her in a Valentine’s Day letter.
A student looks at his cellphone while walking at Jesuit-run Central American University in Managua, Nicaragua, March 31, 2022. (CNS photo/Maynor Valenzuela, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
A Nicaraguan judge described the Jesuit university as a “center of terrorism,” accusing its administrators and educators of “betraying the trust of the Nicaraguan people” and of “transgressing against the constitutional order.”
FaithOf Many Things
Gerard O’Connell
87 is the new 60 at the Vatican.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Living under the reign of sin, they are still a necessary bulwark, nation-states to see them as God’s will for humanity is to blaspheme the one who knows no bounds.
FaithFaith in Focus
Patrick Corkery, S.J.
While narrow nationalism fanned the fires of war, Father Willie Doyle, a WWI chaplain, often paid as much attention to wounded German soldiers as he did to those on his own side.
Man standing in front of the window
FaithThe Word
Victor Cancino, S.J.
August 20, 2023, Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: This Sunday’s readings highlight the tension between inclusivity and exclusivity, but the readings also trend in one hopeful direction upon closer inspection.
FaithNews
Patrick Downes - Catholic News Service
“For us, it’s like a miracle,” Msgr. Terrence Watanabe said about Maria Lanakila Catholic Church in the town of Lahaina being seemingly untouched by the fierce Maui wildfires.
a wooden door with a bench in front of it
FaithScripture Reflections
Heather Trotta
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Heather Trotta