The Truth About Same Sex Attraction

I’m so used to being gay and Catholic, I forget how strange that sounds.
I forget that, for some people, “homosexual” describes something like a different race, or maybe even a different gender. I forget that some Christians think I’m… Read More

Catholic Mom-blogger Threatened by ‘Catholic’ Students

Catholic blogger and mother Carol McKinley is being threatened by certain male students who attend Sacred Heart School in Kingston, Mass. And they’re doing so online.
Why? Because Carol is not afraid to criticize the school for not forming its… Read More

Back to School, Back to the Books: The Value Behind Textbooks

The high price of college textbooks is getting a lot of press. Legislators are considering bills to bring down costs, such as requiring professors to use the least expensive “educationally sound” option. As I have read articles about the burden… Read More

Dear Old Golden Rule Days

There have been many published articles lately about school curriculum, school performance, school choice, and the Obama dictates that are aimed at pumping more money and asserting more control of an already mediocre performing public school industry. In The Wall… Read More

Book Review: Saving America’s Urban Catholic Schools: A Guide for Donors

Catholic Schools and philanthropy have been mutual beneficiaries of each other throughout history.  A guidebook has been published by the Philanthropic Roundtable on how philanthropists can best support urban Catholic Schools.  This Roundtable is committed to helping donors improve K-12… Read More

Read My Lips

“[W]e are setting an ambitious goal: all students should graduate from high school prepared for college and a career – no matter who you are or where you come from.” – Barack Obama, Saturday Radio Address.
A few years ago… Read More

Massachusetts School Suspends Eight Year Old for Drawing Jesus on the Cross

An 8-year-old boy was sent home from Maxham Elementary School and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after he drew a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross.
The boy’s father, Chester Johnson, said he got a call earlier… Read More

School Choice and the Common Good of all Children

The United States justifiably celebrates its pluralism. The mandate to find unity in diversity—e pluribus unum—is predicated not on the premise that all peculiarities of creed or color must be washed away; instead, it insists that all such cultural and… Read More

Interview with Dr. Charles Hull Wolfe, a 20th Century Life

Dr. Charles Hull Wolfe is a historian, renowned creative director, and retired advertising executive. He also serves as president of the Plymouth Rock Foundation. Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College and executive director of… Read More

Christopher Klicka: Warrior for Educational and Religious Freedom

A young dark-haired student, Chris Klicka, sat in my U.S. Constitutional History class at Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania around 1980. He was an excellent student with a particularly keen interest in questions about religious liberty and how that… Read More

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