The Most Reverend David A Zubik Bishop of Pittsburgh has a nbsp written a column nbsp for the nbsp Pittsburgh Catholic nbsp explaining why the city 39 s diocesan schools will not be implementing the Common Core State Standards According to Bishop Zubik A number of parents have raised questions

Saint Louis University where I spent a great four years and graduated with a degree in philosophy today announced its new president Fred P Pestello Ph D Pestello currently president of Le Moyne College in Syracuse NY succeeds Fr Lawrence Biondi S J and is the first permanent lay preside

Over at quot The Stone quot a blog of the New York Times that the paper describes as a quot forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless quot Rebecca Newberger Goldstein has a fascinating post on the human quest to escape obscurity In her essay q

In the course of keeping myself fresh on Ignatian and Jesuit education I 39 ve been reading some of the talks of the Jesuit Superior General Fr Adolfo Nicol s S J I realized that despite all that I 39 ve read on Catholic and Jesuit education I 39 ve not spent much time discovering what he

Syracuse com in conjunction with Syracuse 39 s nbsp The Post-Standard has published an interview with Fr George Coyne S J former director of the Vatican Observatory and one of the more well known of those scholars and priests trying to show the relationship or where appropriate the lack th

As reported by Reuters it was good news last week for Notre Dame The Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded 23 million for research being led by University of Notre Dame biologists to prevent malaria and dengue fever the school said The five-year project by biologists Neil Lobo and Nicol