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Faith and Morals Language in Catholic School Teacher Employment Documents: A Compilation from Diocesan Statements, Handbooks and Contracts

June 26, 2015 /in Mission and Governance Hiring for Mission, Research and Analysis

This compilation is a companion to the Cardinal Newman Society’s analysis, Faith and Morals Language in Catholic School Teacher Employment Documents: Best Practices Brief. It provides additional source material for the reader to consider when researching and reviewing faith and morals clauses in diocesan employment documents for Catholic school teachers. Diocesan policies […]

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Faith and Morals Language in Catholic School Teacher Employment Documents: Best Practices Brief

June 25, 2015 /in Mission and Governance Hiring for Mission, Research and Analysis

In an effort to encourage discussion and to assist educational leaders as they ensure the Catholic identity of their schools, The Cardinal Newman Society has compiled these best practices in Catholic school employment agreements from Catholic dioceses in the United States. Statements included represent strong examples of different mechanisms dioceses […]

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Catholic College Closes, but Other Small Colleges Thrive on Faithful Catholic Mission

June 24, 2015 /in Mission and Governance Mission and Catholic Identity, Research and Analysis

A small, Massachusetts-based Catholic college will close this month, citing financial difficulties brought about by declining enrollment. But while many similarly small colleges around the country are struggling to find their niches in order to sustain enrollment, some faithful Catholic institutions are successfully leveraging their faithful Catholic identities to attract […]

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Many Diocesan and Private Catholic Schools Find Success Outside of Common Core

May 28, 2015 /in Academics Common Core, Research and Analysis

This publication is part of a series of reports on the Common Core State Standards Initiative and how those standards potentially impact Catholic education. At least 33 Catholic dioceses and scores of private and independent Catholic schools across the United States have decided to take a cautious approach to the relatively […]

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Disconnect between Common Core’s Literary Approach and Catholic Education’s Pursuit of Truth

May 27, 2015 /in Academics Common Core, Research and Analysis

Many of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts are, when taken in isolation and at face value, fairly innocuous. Who, after all, could be against a fifth grader being asked to “Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings or events in a story or drama, drawing on […]

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Private Affairs and Private Institutions

August 13, 2014 /in Mission and Governance Hiring for Mission, Research and Analysis

This article is part of a collaborative series between The Cardinal Newman Society and the Culture of Life Foundation on Catholic education policy from the perspective of theology, ethics and the moral law. With government’s growing efforts to create a new norm for human sexuality, it should not be surprising […]

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Do Catholic Schools Need the Common Core?

November 13, 2013 /in Academics Common Core, Research and Analysis

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 […]

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General Education at Catholic Colleges and Universities

October 2, 2012 /in Academics Curriculum, Research and Analysis

Executive Summary Across the universe of American higher education, increasing attention is being given to the weakening of general education standards. This study examines the general education requirements at Catholic colleges and universities. It compares the general education programs at 184 Catholic colleges and universities to all other American colleges […]

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Strategies for Reducing Binge Drinking and a “Hook-Up” Culture on Campus

October 1, 2012 /in Student Formation Research and Analysis, Student Residences

The problems of binge drinking and the hook up culture are well-known, widespread, and detrimental to the educational mission of any university. Moreover, these behaviors should especially concern Catholic universities, which seek to develop the whole person—socially, morally, and spiritually. Every Catholic university, as a university, is an academic community which, […]

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A Mandate for Fidelity: Pope Benedict Urges Compliance with Theologian’s Mandatum

July 23, 2012 /in Academics Mandatum, Research and Analysis

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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