Bloomberg reports today that Robert Wilson – known as one of the great stock investors of the last 50 years, the now-retired peer of Warren Buffet and George Soros—gave $5.6 million to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York this summer to set up fundraising programs for Catholic schools. “Most of what the Catholic schools [...]
Greg Sisk at Mirror of Justice– reflecting on Peggy Noonan’s charge that our thought leaders (including university elites) are detached from the essential nature of regular citizens– asks whether the charge applies just as well to profs at Catholic institutions. Hmmmmm….yes.
Daniel Henninger has a great little video piece about the Cristo Rey schools. He has a column about it in the WSJ as well. (Google “How About a Good Catholic Story” — don’t forget the quotations marks– for the full text.) Cristo Rey is a system of 24 Jesuit high schools that offers a college-prep [...]
Catholicism is about both the intellect and the senses. Andrew Seeley’s essay is concerned with the latter and “the joyful duty of Catholic education.” He says: Our nation’s Puritanical past might lead us to think that to be religious is to deny ourselves what is beautiful, but the opposite is true.
I thought this news from Canada was something posted at the Onion, but it comes by way of an Education Week blog. Some of the newly religious teachers seem to be lapsed Catholics attempting to return to the faith. But others are outright novices (so to speak): “I haven’t gone for my, um, what do [...]
Samuel Freedman’s On Religion piece at the NYT–an interesting take on Diane Ravitch’s new must-read– argues that the proliferation of free charter schools hurts urban tuition-charging Catholic schools. Not all alternatives to failing public schools are equal, though, and Catholic schools are still the only ones to offer the things that public schools– by definition– [...]