Roundup: Catholic School Sued by Employee in Same-Sex Marriage, and More
Your weekly summary of the latest in Catholic education:
Employee in Same-Sex Marriage Sues Catholic School for Termination
A Catholic school guidance counselor seems shocked to learn that the Catholic Church is against same-sex marriage—filed lawsuit after being fired. Makes you wonder what she was teaching the children.
So What Are We Teaching Our Children?
A scary look inside the minds of some Catholic educators:
“Catholic parents, your children are being seduced in Catholic schools to accept a version of human sexuality that utterly opposes God’s plan for sexuality, marriage, and family,” writes Pete Baklinski of LifeSiteNews.com, “and that if not checked, has the power to corrupt your beautiful children physically and spiritually, even making them fit to become children of hell.”
Growing Is a Habit to Nashville Dominicans
Seven, eight, nun …
Nine women made their final profession of vows as Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation recently in Nashville, Tenn. Nine other young women also professed their first vows. The order’s teaching apostolate extends to Newman Guide-recommended Aquinas College in Nashville and in 37 schools throughout the United States.
Blue Lives Blessed
A Catholic school in Chicago blessed police officers on the first day of school, recognizing the dangers officers face every day. Hundreds of school-aged children have been shot in the Chicago area in recent years.
Credit: Bernie Tafoya
In Defense of a Liberal Arts Degree
Thaddeus Kozinski, academic dean and associate professor of philosophy and humanities at Newman Guide-recommended Wyoming Catholic College, argues that “a proper education is an education of the whole person, but the person is neither his intellect, his will, his imagination, his memory, nor his body. He is, rather, his heart. And the heart is what WCC educates best.”
Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Western Civilization at a Catholic College
Providence College Professor Anthony Esolen writes, “Exercises in Unreality: The Decline in Teaching Western Civilization” for the quarterly review Modern Age.
High School Football Coach Creates Rosary Rally for His Team and His Opponents
A different kind of football “Hail Mary.”
The idea was to “start our semester and football season and school year with God first and foremost,” Coach Mike Nolan of Notre Dame Preparatory School in Arizona said, according to The Catholic Sun.
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