Far outside the political spotlight on elite universities, community-college students across America are learning the skills of democratic participation.
Can I still keep using this Catholic education to understand the world if I’m no longer Catholic? Can I even still ask the curriculum’s questions if I’m no longer professing the faith that animates them?
In the United States, there is a growing gap between Catholic academia and the institutional Church, one that hinders our ability to understand the sex-abuse crisis.
In their quest to prioritize diversity, Catholic educational institutions must not forget the diversity that already exists in their own tradition and history.
The challenge of engagement facing the synod is real. But these readers point to the progress at their own institutions as a model of how we can move forward.
Catholic universities should be open circles: accepting a wide variety of viewpoints without succumbing to a “free market” of ideas that rejects transcendence.
Through her activism and pioneering work in African-American Catholic spirituality, Sr. Thea Bowman challenged the Church to confront its own systemic racism.
Deep disagreements over politics are as old as the nation itself. As we approach the November election, we need to think carefully about how we got here.
Priestly formation and academic theology are increasingly cut off from the real lives of Catholics. That poses a real problem, one that theologians must address.
Fr. Luigi Giussani’s experience as a student and teacher made him especially attuned to the rhetorical challenge of helping young people mature in faith and reason.
Massimo Faggioli comments on the legacy of Don Lugi Sturzo, the Italian priest who resisted fascism and insisted on the right of lay Catholics to engage actively in politics.
Francis Oakley’s memoir about higher education emphasizes “the lifelong pursuit of liberal learning”—education through engagement with those who disagree with you.
The late Fr. Ted Hesburgh transformed the University of Notre Dame into a leading institution. A new book tendentiously ignores key aspects of his life and work.
In his work, the late historian John Lukacs embodied a Christian humanism, one that ideologues on both the left and right did their best to bury. He will be missed.
A lot of people fancy themselves history buffs, obsessing over names, dates, and numbers. But facts aren’t narratives. And history can’t be learned from a phone.
