The Kariobangi Women Promotion Training Institute, run by the Comboni Missionary Sisters, helps young women in Nairobi's low-income areas, offering them skills in tailoring and dressmaking, hairdressing, and catering.
No one needed to tell the Catholic college and university leaders, attending their annual conference virtually this year, that these different times are affecting their day-to-day operations and what they might do going forward.
Enrollment in Catholic schools in the U.S. dropped 6.4% from the previous academic year amid the pandemic and economic stresses — the largest single-year decline in at least five decades.
Most Black and Latinx students at a Catholic prep school met up online for a frank discussion with Jewish students from a neighboring school, exchanging perspectives on racism and anti-Semitism.
The Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education called for an alliance between Catholic and non-Catholic educational institutions in order to confront the challenges stemming from or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Education leaders imagining how Catholic schools will safely reopen this fall agree on two things: different decisions will be made according to locations and reopening plans may change on short notice.
Shirking responsibilities in educating future generations has led to a collapse in cooperation among families, schools and social, cultural and religious institutions, Pope Francis said.
During oral arguments Jan. 22 about the constitutionality of excluding religious schools from a scholarship aid program, a divided Supreme Court seemed like it might lean toward finding a way to allow religious schools to participate.
