Catholic education Archives

NJ judge says he won’t overrule Catholic school’s enrollment decision
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- August 15, 2017
A New Jersey family has lost their lawsuit to try and force their children to be enrolled at a Catholic school in the Archdiocese of Newark. Cardinal Joseph Tobin, the Archbishop of Newark, testified that he decided not to allow the two girls to re-enroll because their parents’ behavior was not in the best interest of the school.
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Catholic schools make outreach to Hispanic community a priority
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- August 10, 2017
For Hispanic students enrolled in Catholic schools, there’s often a sense of gratitude mixed with heightened self-awareness and varying levels of discomfort. Some express concern that their own background is not reflected in their school’s curriculum, such as absence of a discussion of Latino history, and note the lack of diversity in faculty and staff especially at schools that serve Hispanics and other students of color.
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English-speaking bishops call for end of school boycott in Cameroon
- Global Church
- August 3, 2017
Cameroonian Bishop George Nkuo, Vice President of the Bamenda Provincial Episcopal Conference, said the education of the children was a chief mission of the Catholic Church. He has called on Catholic schools to begin enrolling students for the coming academic year, ending a boycott closing schools over a dispute about language rights in bilingual Cameroon.
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Explaining the Blaine Amendment and if SCOTUS killed it

Even though the issue in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer was playground equipment, some see the court’s 7-2 decision in favor of the church as a sign that school voucher programs, which both President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos support, would survive future legal challenges.

Towards a “d’Alzon option” on education

Emmanuel d’Alzon, founder of the Augustinians of the Assumption, grew up in the 19th century, in a post-revolutionary France that had jettisoned God. One of the chief apostolates of the Assumptionists is education, and their methodology can contribute to a renewal of public life in the United States by reminding the world that the secular worldview is not all-encompassing.

Bishop commends Ghana’s plan to hand back management of mission schools

“I think returning the mission schools to their owners is a way of recognizing the contribution religious bodies have made and the purposes for which they founded mission schools,” Bishop John Kwofie of Sekondi-Takoradi said of the possibility.