December 20, 2013 – In recent decades, Church leaders, together with Catholic families, have come to better appreciate that Catholic identity is essential to Catholic schools’ mission, teaching methods, curriculum, and appeal. It is because of their Catholic identity that schools are most attentive to the needs of students and […]
Not long after Nevada created the nation’s first nearly universal education savings account (ESA) program for students last year, two lawsuits were filed to block the program that relied on discriminatory, historically anti-Catholic, provisions in the state constitution. Now the program is on hold following an injunction issued this month […]
A case challenging a Blaine Amendment in Missouri’s state constitution will go before the U.S. Supreme Court this year, the Court announced last week, to decide if the state can rely on the discriminatory, historically anti-Catholic, constitutional provision in its denial of a grant to a Christian preschool meant to […]
The Cardinal Newman society joined an amicus brief at the Supreme Court of the United States urging the court to uphold that religious institutions, other than churches, should be exempt from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ “contraceptive mandate.”
In an interview last night on EWTN News Nightly, Cardinal Newman Society President Patrick Reilly called attention to the anti-Catholic Blaine Amendments found in many state constitutions that threaten religious freedom and school choice by blocking funds to families who want to send their children to religious schools. Reilly said […]
The Cardinal Newman Society joined an amicus brief at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in the case Conlon v. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, urging the court to uphold InterVarsity’s ministerial exception in response to a religious discrimination lawsuit.
The following considerations related to the Common Core were provided to Catholic bishops on November 13, 2013, in Baltimore, Maryland. The Cardinal Newman Society partnered with the National Association of Private Catholic and Independent Schools and the Catholic Education Foundation to present a seminar on the Common Core during the […]
Introduction On May 5, 2012, in his address to several American bishops during their required ad limina visit to Rome, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI spoke on “religious education and the faith formation of the next generation of Catholics” in the United States. He said: On the level of higher education, many of you […]
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The Cardinal Newman Society joined an amicus brief at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia urging the court to uphold that religious institutions should be exempt from the Obama administration’s “contraceptive mandate.”