Founded by a mother-daughter team, Becoming Mujeres is an organization that gives workshops, both in-person and virtual, dedicated to the empowerment of Latina teenage girls and the people who care for them.
Issues like federal aid to child care need not become fodder in the culture wars that corrode our politics and our faith. We have to find workable compromises to these kinds of policy disputes, not simply go on beating each other up over them.
NCR Connections: "Happens all the time," I told my sister when she shared news that a Catholic school had rescinded a job offer to a woman with a wife. What doesn't happen all the time: The school reversed its decision.
The Holy See instructed the Heralds of the Gospel to close the boarding schools the order operates in Brazil. The Vatican's aim is to protect the students from the high risk of psychological and sexual violence.
The first new Catholic school built in Baltimore in roughly 60 years opened its doors Aug. 30, a somewhat anomaly in the national education landscape as the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the shuttering of many Catholic schools.
Lexington Bishop John Stowe and fired Catholic educator Margie Winters were among speakers at the June 3-5 College Theology Society meeting, which focused on the theme "The Human in a Dehumanizing World."
Signs of the Times: When Jesuit Gonzaga High School looked into solar power, school officials discovered was that in D.C., public incentives for a building owner to go solar, even a nonprofit, are very strong.
Some parents and teachers in Northern Ireland believe integrated education would help young Catholics and Protestant to forge relationships to cement the gains of the peace process.
Trinity Catholic High School in the St. Louis Archdiocese and Christ Our Savior Catholic School in the Chicago Archdiocese are part of a trend: Catholic schools serving Black students are more likely to close.
