Patrick Reilly: Educational Emergency

Pope Benedict XVI warned of the “educational emergency” that leaves modern man ignorant of truth, without hope in Christ. For decades, most education in the U.S.—including much of Catholic education—has failed to provide young people the integral formation they deserve: practice in virtue and religion, cultivation of the mind through study of the liberal arts and sciences, and humility and reverence toward God by the grace found in prayer and Sacrament. But today, there is renewed hope in the example of parents, clergy, and religious who are reforming and renewing faithful Catholic education—by introducing new innovations and recovering the best of the past.