Washington D.C., Feb 2, 2018 / 05:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).-
Dr. Tom Burnford, president and CEO of the National Catholic Educational Association, spoke to CNA’s Jonah McKeown during Catholic Schools Week 2018 about his Catholic education and the evangelizing mission of Catholic schools in the United States.
How did your own Catholic education lead you to work in this field?
I was blessed to attend Catholic primary school in England, where I grew up: St. Joseph’s in Storrington, in Sussex. And then I also went to Catholic high school: Ampleforth College in Yorkshire. My experience was a rigorous academic curriculum, and a study of the Catholic faith with a particular focus on scripture, and also living at the high school, a boarding school, in a community permeated by the gospel spirit. For me, the witness of the teachers, some of whom were Benedictine monks, others were lay people…they witnessed a Catholic faith that made me believe what they said when they talked about the
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Thinking It Through: Four poor excuses for political apathy
By Richard Reeb
For the Victorville Daily Press
For all its problems, the United States of America is the best country for human happiness in the world today. But whether it’s because of its problems, or the belief that it has none, many citizens refrain from or disdain political participation, leaving that challenging and frustrating task to others.
Typically, these folks mean no harm, not becoming open enemies or finding refuge in factionalism, but they are missing out and not just skipping out on citizenship.
Under this category, I have discerned four basic types.
Washington D.C., May 6, 2021 / 23:01 pm (CNA).
US President Joe Biden issued on Wednesday the annual proclamation of a National Day of Prayer, without mentioning any deity in it.
The May 5 statement says that “throughout our history, Americans of many religions and belief systems have turned to prayer for strength, hope, and guidance. Prayer has nourished countless souls and powered moral movements including essential fights against racial injustice, child labor, and infringement on the rights of disabled Americans.”
This year the National Day of Prayer is observed May 6.
In the proclamation Biden wrote that “today, we remember and celebrate the role that the healing balm of prayer can play in our lives and in the life of our Nation. As we continue to confront the crises and challenges of our time from a deadly pandemic, to the loss of lives and livelihoods in its wake, to a reckoning on racial justice, to the existential threat of climate change Americans of faith ca
During his latest show, Glenn Loury, an Ivy League economics professor and host of video blog
The Glenn Show, blasted the teaching of identity politics in higher education, calling it a “criminal abdication of our pedagogic responsibilities,” while asserting a teacher’s responsibility is to challenge students’ preconceptions about themselves.
Loury was talking to John McWhorter, an author and linguistics professor at Columbia University, on Tuesday when he began discussing the issue of identity politics in American higher education.
“To teach young people that they are this [the color of their skin] is criminal in my opinion,” he stated.
“We’re to challenge them!” he exclaimed.
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