If this becomes the norm for Catholic schools, then so much the better for other non
Catholic schools and universities.
The focus of the Jubilee Centre reminds us that we need to reach further back into history than we have been accustomed to if we are to revive Catholic education: in particular, we need to learn from the great
Catholic schools and universities of the pre-Reformation era.
It took half a century of growth and progress in
Catholic schools and universities, journalism, and publishing to make the mid-twentieth-century achievement possible.
Not exact matches
He attended a local
Catholic high
school and a big public college, the
University of Massachusetts.
Stephens serves on an advisory board to the Mays Business
School at Texas A&M
University, is on the boards of the United Way of Dallas
and Catholic Charities of Dallas
and has also served on the boards of numerous educational
and social service organizations.
Anderson
University in Indiana Baylor
University Campbell
University Emanuel College Evangel
and other charismatic
and Pentecostal
schools All the Churches of Christ
schools Franciscan at Steubenville is overtly
and radically
Catholic Friends, George Fox, Malone
and other Quaker
schools Fuller Theological Seminary Shorter Wisconsin Lutheran
Catholic News Agency: «Exorcist» author prepares canon lawsuit against Georgetown The author of the best - selling book
and award - winning screenplay «The Exorcist» has announced that he is leading an effort to file a canon lawsuit against Georgetown
University for failures to live up to the demands of the
school's
Catholic identity.
I've attended
Catholic school since kindergarten, Jesuit High School and University, and am now pursuing a master's at a Catholic Unive
school since kindergarten, Jesuit High
School and University, and am now pursuing a master's at a Catholic Unive
School and University,
and am now pursuing a master's at a
Catholic University.
I was raised Roman
Catholic and went to parochial
school and a Jesuit
university.
Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the
university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation
Catholic reformers were excommunicated
and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological
schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East
Robert A. Destro, J.D. Professor of Law
and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Law & Religion Columbus
School of Law The
Catholic University of America
Associate Professor
and Director of Moral Theology / Ethics
School of Theology
and Religious Studies The
Catholic University of America
Associate Professor of Systematic Theology
School of Theology
and Religious Studies The
Catholic University of America
While best known for their Renaissance - era dress uniforms - brightly striped, puffy - sleeved shirts
and pants - along with their ceremonial battle axes, they are a formidable modern security detail, according to Widmer, who now runs the entrepreneurship program at the
School of Business
and Economics at the
Catholic University of America.
Both my wife, Lorena,
and I went to
school there,
and she jokes that the first time she heard Georgetown called a Jesuit
and Catholic university was in the material sent to her parents to get them to pay for her freshman year.
Indeed, over the years, Georgetown has been perhaps the clearest example of what many such
schools practice: the whipsaw of «
Catholic tradition,» in which the strongest declarations of
Catholic identity come from the fund - raisers, the alumni association,
and the public - relations office ¯ all the people trying to sell the
university in a tight economic situation that requires a good bit of niche marketing.
«Our alumni are in leadership positions on all continents: starting
schools and even
universities (for example Wyoming
Catholic College), running pro-life programmes
and post-abortion healing programmes (in the US, throughout Europe,
and even in China), entering in politics (an Austrian graduate from our MMF program, Gudrun Kugler, is now a member of the Austrian Federal Parliament
and she is in charge of women's, family
and human rights issues).
The conferences, part of an effort called More than a Monologue, have happened at two
Catholic universities and two non-denominational divinity
schools
Now comes an even more comprehensive claim about the positive impact of these
schools: For, according to two law professors at the
University of Notre Dame, Margaret F. Brinig
and Nicole Stelle Garnett, inner - city
Catholic schools are important factors in urban renewal as builders of «social capital» on inner - urban areas.
• A few people in an office in Rome have oversight of nearly 3,500 seminaries, 1,500 colleges
and universities,
and thousands upon thousands of
Catholic schools with more than fifty million students around the world.
With today's
Catholic universities drifting away from any recognizable connection to the
Catholic tradition, dioceses closing parochial
schools,
and the Church's ability to influence politics at a historic low, it's absurd to speak of a «resurgent» integralism.
Kmiec, the former dean of the
Catholic University of America's law
school, defended his actions in his official letters
and statement.
Max Torres is Centesimus Annus Della Ratta Family Endowed Professor at
Catholic University of America's Busch
School of Business
and Economics.
Catholic University of America in Washington was the site of a meeting with hundreds of educators,
and, echoing the language of John Paul II's Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990), Benedict underscored that
Catholic schools are «integral to the mission of the Church,»
and «the primary mission of the Church is evangelization.»
American Catholics to create a sort of parallel society in the 19th
and 20th centuries, with the result that there are now over 6,800
Catholic schools (5 % of the national total); 630 hospitals (11 %) plus a similar number of smaller health facilities;
and 244 colleges
and universities.
The
school advises students that «cohabitation, which is defined as overnight visits with a sexual partner, is incompatible both with the
Catholic character of the
University and with the rights of the roommates.»
Religion has even become a problem at religious
schools, as when Gonzaga
University, a
Catholic Jesuit
school, initially denied the Knights of Columbus official student club status because the club practices «religious discrimination» (
and «gender discrimination») by admitting only
Catholic men.
Seven years of teaching in two genuinely pluralist settings — first at the
Catholic University of America
and then at the
University of Chicago divinity
school — convinced me that however inadequate my own present answers to this question may be, the question itself is well worth asking.
Catholic schools,
and I don't mean just colleges
and universities, do it ALL the time.
On the other hand, he was certainly a great hero to the younger anti-Nazi campaigners, such as the «White Rose» group at Munich
University (Hans
and Sophie
School — who were, incidentally, also inspired by the writings of another great
Catholic, John Henry Newman)
and the youth group at St Ludwig's Church in the same city who combined opposition to National Socialism with devout Catholicism
and enthusiasm for the emerging liturgical movement.
Here
and there this is already taking place: I think of our work at Duke
University and that of my friends James Fowler at Harvard, David Stewart at Pacific
School of Religion,
and Berard Marthaler at the
Catholic University of America, to name only three.
A few years ago I would have wondered whether
Catholic schools,
universities and publishers were prepared to grasp that particular nettle.
The magazine also claims that «local
and federal government bankroll the Medicare
and Medicaid of patients in
Catholic hospitals, the cost of educating pupils in
Catholic schools and loans to students attending
Catholic universities».
Rowe attended 16 years of
Catholic School in Illinois
and attended a
Catholic university.
The Lilly Foundation funded a gathering of a cross-section of theological teachers
and administrators from seminaries,
university divinity
schools and colleges — Protestant
and Catholic, mainline
and evangelical, well - known
schools and those in the outback — to explore the subject.
Respondents were a cross-section of systematic theologians, mostly from denominational seminaries (Protestant
and Roman
Catholic),
university divinity
schools and evangelical seminaries.
This comes from a mother who sacrificed to send all three of her children to
Catholic Schools AND put a son through the
University of Notre Dame.
The Illinois
school joins
Catholic counterparts
Catholic University and the
University of Notre Dame in filing suits to stop a Health
and Human Services mandate to provide birth control coverage to their employees.
During the
school year she
and her Anglo -
Catholic mother, Barnard College professor Ursula Niebuhr; usually attended services at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, or St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia
University, or James Chapel at Union Seminary; occasionally they attended the East Harlem Protestant Parish or heard Harry Emerson Fosdick preach at Riverside Church.
If you care to believe the Hofstra
University study on the matter there is more abuse percentage wise in our own public
schools than there ever has been in the
Catholic Church.Not justifying it but you must remember that our public
schools have laws
and unions that are protected by the laws of our very own government.
Unlike theological
schools in the United States, however, these
university faculties are closely tied to the Protestant
and Catholic churches: The ipso facto establishment of the two major Christian traditions via West Germany's church tax means that few people here question the close relationship of the faculties to the churches.
That Msgr. Shea
and his colleagues in Bismarck have welcomed him to the
University of Mary, giving him a platform from which to extend his work into the Latino worlds of U.S. Catholicism while continuing to be the go - to consultant for
Catholic Studies programs across the country, testifies to that young
school's bright future as one of the leaders of
Catholic higher education reform.
Professor Gerard V. Bradley has an interesting
and thoughtful piece up today over at NRO, in which he laments the demise of numerous
Catholic colleges /
universities and encourages Catholics to bring the faith to secular
schools (where the vast majority of Catholics are now being educated):
E. Joanne Angelo, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts
University School of Medicine in Boston, Mass.,
and a member of Women Affirming Life, a
Catholic pro-life organization.
Mitchell also provides a helpful background chapter on the influence of the American Association of
University Professors on
Catholic higher education
and an interesting chapter on the successful campaign to remove Msgr. Eugene Kevane from his post as Dean of the
School of Education.
Our
schools are part of that rich tradition of
Catholic learning that gave the world its
universities and colleges, its village
schools and mission
schools, its great centres of learning
and its small everyday ones,
and its sense that intellectual life is bound up with the life of the soul.
There is even teenage high
school fiction from a
Catholic perspective emerging from the USA, with a group of graduates from the Franciscan
University of Steubenville
and Christendom College writing under the name of Christian M. Frank.
The
University has recently opened a Benedict XVI Centre specialising in
Catholic social teaching,
and is proud of its particular links with Pope Emeritus Benedict, who addressed a vast crowd of children gathered there from
schools across Britain on his State Visit in 2010.
With growth in
Catholic colleges
and universities that take their faith seriously,
and with
schools like Aquinas College forming a generation of teachers, there are more than enough reasons for hope.
D. H. Williams is an ordained Baptist minister who teaches patristics
and historical theology at a Roman
Catholic school, Loyola
University of Chicago.