Entries by Patrick Reilly

‘Newman Guide News’ reaches worldwide EWTN audience each week

I’m thrilled to announce that Kelly Salomon, Vice President for Newman Guide Programs, will now appear weekly on EWTN Radio to promote faithful Newman Guide education and address the latest issues facing Catholic educators. Her “Newman Guide News” segment airs each Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. (Eastern) on Catholic Connection with […]

We’ll keep promoting Newman Guide standards… with your help

Thanks to your generous support, 1,612 schools serving 434,390 students in 48 dioceses are now using The Cardinal Newman Society’s Catholic Curriculum Standards! Back in 2016, most Catholic dioceses in the U.S. adopted the Common Core State Standards and claimed they had no satisfactory Catholic alternative. With leading experts, we […]

…and we can DOUBLE the size of our Newman Guide Leaders Summit

After its soft launch this year, our Newman Guide Network will be fully staffed in 2025-26 to support more than a dozen working groups of leaders from Newman Guide institutions and dioceses. Nicholas Reilly will coordinate Network activity, manage an online Network platform, and communicate with Newman Guide leaders. Anong […]

We plan to DOUBLE our Newman Guide recommendations

Thank you, and congratulations! In 2024-25, your support helped expand The Newman Guide to recognize more than 100 faithful schools, colleges, and graduate programs! Together, we have made such enormous progress since announcing the Guide’s expansion in 2023. And now, in the coming year, we’re gearing up to DOUBLE our […]

With your help, we can DOUBLE our Newman Guide promotions

I’ve spent the past few weeks with The Cardinal Newman Society leadership team, developing major plans for our 2025-2026 fiscal year, which begins July 1. I hope you’re excited as I am by what we have envisioned—and with your continued prayers and generous support, and God’s abundant grace, we can […]

Together, we’ll move mountains with God’s grace

It’s amazing how life comes full-circle! After 32 years of promoting faithful Catholic education, I see how this renewal has blessed my own family—and my wife Rosario and I are deeply grateful for what you’ve made possible, as are so many other families. Our youngest child, Ana, graduated in May […]

They sued their daughters’ Catholic school

Don’t miss our podcast with Tony Scarpo, a modern Catholic hero Tony Scarpo has fascinating stories! His autobiography, La Mia Famiglia: Never Let Them Steal Your Name, chronicles his family’s struggles against the mafia in Tampa. That hardship, it turns out, may have been God’s way of forming a soldier […]

The key to pro-life success is Newman Guide education

Your support is forming a new pro-life generation It was no accident that our Newman Guide college presidents meeting was the day before the March for Life in Washington, D.C. It is an ideal time to meet, because these colleges have such a big presence at the March, and their […]

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, […]