Education

Massachusetts Senator Proposes Additional $300,000 for Pro-Homosexual Programs in Schools

by LifeSite News May 21, 2008

In what many consider a victory for the children of Massachusetts, a budget measure passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives to increase its previous $500,000 funding of ‘gay friendly’ programs targeting school children to $750,000, was cut back by…

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Newman Society Censured on Australian Campus — Won’t Toe Pro-abortion Line

by Thaddeus M. Baklinski May 17, 2008

The Student Union at Queensland University have shown themselves to be opposed to differing opinion and free speech like many other secular universities around the world.The school’s Newman Society has been censored and threatened with disaffiliation from the student union…

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US Chastity Speaker Meets “Toughest Crowd” at Ontario Catholic High School

by Hilary White and Steve Jalsevac May 3, 2008

Dawn Eden, the US author and chastity campaigner, relates the story of her lecture tour in the Catholic high schools in Ontario where the girls “competed to wear the shortest skirts” and students defiantly told her that they “loved sex.”…

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Parachute with the Angels and St. Catherine Laboure: A VBS Review

by Mary Lou Rosien April 30, 2008

Every year, my children look forward to the Parish VBS (Vacation Bible School) Program. They enjoy the fellowship, the songs, the arts and crafts and my older children look forward to putting on the plays. I have always been fairly…

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Catholic University of St. Thomas Rejects Black Pro-Life Speaker, Permits Transgender Speakers

by LifeSite News April 12, 2008

Administrators at the University of St. Thomas, a Catholic university and private college in Minnesota, censored the appearance of prominent pro-life and black speaker Star Parker. On April 21, 2008, Star – the best-selling author of numerous books – was…

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The Hypocrites are Back at UVA

by Catholic League March 15, 2008

The March 14 issue of the University of Virginia's student paper, The Cavalier Daily, featured a cartoon depicting a naked man smoking a cigarette in bed. Standing beside the bed, a woman in her underwear buttons up her shirt and…

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Rape Films at Yale

by L. Brent Bozell March 11, 2008

Newsweek magazine recently celebrated the latest trend in elite Northeastern colleges: sex magazines, complete with highbrow titles — like "Boink." In applauding the shifting sexual mores of American youth, reporter Jennie Yabroff noted that these enterprising students "no longer see…

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UK Government Sex Ed Program “Verging on Brainwashing”

by Hilary White March 5, 2008

Three quarters of teachers polled by a quasi-official teachers' professional journal said they think sex education should be compulsory, with parents losing their right to pull their children from the classes, the Daily Telegraph reports. The Times Educational Supplement (TES)…

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Bishops, Notre Dame and Camaraderie

by Judie Brown February 23, 2008

My blood would be boiling if I had not promised the Lord that I would surrender my temper to His loving care as one of my sacrifices this Lenten season.  So I cannot tell you that I am angered, but…

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Celebrating Catholic Schools Week as a Family

by Lisa Hendey January 28, 2008

Every year, during the last week of January, this nation's 2.4 million Catholic school students and the 200,000 dedicated educators who nurture them pause to celebrate "Catholic Schools Week".  This year's celebrations, to be held January 27 through February 2,…

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