Rallying around Newman Guide education
CNS partners with Heritage Foundation, ADF, Catholic Talent Project
If you and I are going to protect faithful Catholic schools, colleges, and graduate programs, we need strong allies. Several were present at our Newman Guide leaders meeting held on January 23, 2025.
The meeting was co-sponsored by The Heritage Foundation, America’s most influential public policy organization. It is led by Kevin Roberts, former president of Wyoming Catholic College and founding president and headmaster of John Paul the Great Academy in Lafayette, La., formerly recognized on our Catholic Education Honor Roll. He’s a fighter! And he is eager to help us defend religious freedom.
In the latest issue of Our Catholic Mission magazine, Roberts urges faithful educators to seize the day and firmly reestablish Catholic education.
“The next four years are critical for securing the future of Catholic education in the United States for the next 40 years,” he writes. “Despite facing more serious attacks than ever before, with Donald Trump’s victory we have a unique opportunity to go on offense. Now is the time for action.”
Also at the Newman Guide leaders meeting was Alliance Defending Freedom, which has been our expert legal resource for many years. Gregory Baylor, ADF’s Senior Counsel for Government Affairs and Director of Religious Schools, has been a regular at our meetings. Together with Roger Severino, a former civil rights official in the first Trump administration, Greg gave Newman Guide leaders a clear picture of the ongoing threats to religious freedom and how we can defeat them.
We are also proud to work with Tom Carroll, founder of the new Catholic Talent Project, which recruits primarily Newman Guide college graduates to be faithful witnesses in Catholic schools around the country. We invited Tom to address our January meeting and discuss how these colleges can better network with faithful Catholic schools.
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