Some of the nation’s leading Catholic educators say a crisis in Catholic higher education can only be fully addressed when Catholic laity educate themselves in the teachings of the Church, and colleges and universities that call themselves “Catholic” actually live and teach the faith they claim to profess.
The Cardinal Newman Society is a vocal opponent of the Common Core standards in Catholic schools. In his column at the Newman Society, Matt Archbold writes, “As Catholics, we welcome all converts. Let’s hope DeVos’ conversion away from Common Core is genuine.”
The Cardinal Newman Society says its Catholic Curriculum Standards seek to serve as a “valuable new resource encouraging greater emphasis on what makes Catholic education special while moving beyond reliance on the controversial Common Core State Standards.”
The organization whose main mission is to promote and defend faithful Catholic education is highly critical of a new sex education program promoted by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family.
“After much consideration, the Catholic schools in the Diocese of Marquette will not adapt or adopt the Common Core State Standards which were developed for the public school system,” announced Bishop John Doerfler in a statement.
A California lawmaker who is sponsoring a bill that would have allowed the use of taxpayer dollars to punish and publicly shame Christian universities for operating according to their beliefs has removed an offending provision from the legislation.
The president of The Cardinal Newman Society – the premier organization that promotes and defends Catholic education – says Catholic schools should implement “human sexuality policies” that serve to protect the faith, not to conform to the federal government’s social engineering motives.
The Cardinal Newman Society is promoting a statement signed by 29 Catholic and pro-life leaders calling on Catholic colleges to “stand firm in defending truth and the Catholic identity of their institutions.”
At a time when Christianity is being attacked by secularists within the United States, Catholic college students are often seeing their faith misrepresented and abused on college campuses.
An editorial in the Catholic Standard – the online news magazine of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. – condemned an invited address by Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards at Georgetown University – the nation’s oldest Catholic university.
The plummeting popularity of the Common Core standards has extended to Catholic schools in the United States—about half of which were signed onto the nationalized standards by their bishops despite a push back from many Catholic educators and theologians.
Despite having a foundation in a faith that values life from conception and denounces abortion, some Catholic colleges have relationships with Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.
Flint Dollar, who is represented by attorney Charles E. Cox, Jr., says he signed a contract with the school on May 1, 2014 and announced to school officials he would be marrying his gay partner the following October without any objection from them, reports The Telegraph. He was fired three weeks later.
Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic and Jesuit institute of higher learning in the United States, will honor advocates of abortion during its commencement ceremonies this coming weekend.
In an address at St. Norbert Catholic College in Wisconsin, radical feminist Gloria Steinem said that religion was “patriarchal” and “all about controlling reproduction.”
Wyoming Catholic College has rejected $1 million in federal student aid programs to keep its Catholic identity, rejecting strings tied to the funding regarding birth control, same-sex marriage, and gender issues–requirements that are not in keeping with the teachings of the Catholic Church.
In response to an amicus brief submitted by 379 corporations and businesses encouraging the U.S. Supreme Court to declare homosexual “marriage rights,” the Cardinal Newman Society is urging Catholic schools, colleges and universities to refrain from providing honors, speaking platforms, or positions on boards and committees to the leaders and board members of these corporations.
