Parents should take a lead in giving their children an accurate picture about sex and reproduction, but too many young adults never learn the basics about fertility.

The key question in this case is not whether a charter would help or harm local education, but whether explicitly religious instruction at charter schools is constitutional.

Catholics should support universal free school meals both because it aids the poor and because it promotes the common good.

Reflecting on the horror and the events of the intervening years, Msgr. Weiss said: “Gratitude sustains me. I pray a lot and try to keep myself in the Lord’s hands.”

What can the 21st-century educator offer his or her students in the wake of all the violence, anger and hate they see in the media?

Groups calling for the removal of books from libraries and school curricula today would do well to consider the Catholic Church’s experiences with attempting to censor authors.