In a surprise victory against government officials who sought to prosecute a homeschooling family for refusing to participate in the public school system, David and Jonatas Nunes have passed tests proving a high level of knowledge in a variety of subjects, including history, the natural sciences, the arts, sports, computing, and mathematics.The tests given to […]

After receiving four days of intense testing by government authorities in a showdown over the future of homeschooling in Brazil, David and Jonatas Nunes are optimistic, despite the fact that the tests were changed on them only one week before, allowing little time for adequate study.
Although the Nunes family was initially told that the tests […]

St. Peter’s College, a Benedictine liberal arts school affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan, and which describes itself as being deeply rooted in the Catholic tradition, has invited Belinda Stronach, known for her support of abortion and same-sex marriage, to be the keynote speaker at its fund-raising dinner to be held September 16, 2008.A spokeswoman […]

With alarming failure rates at our nation’s inner city schools, one wants to celebrate any attempt to motivate success. Still, sincere efforts must be examined not according to their intentions but to their likely or demonstrated results. One new concept that is gaining attention gives kids immediate cash or gifts for completing normal academic tasks, […]

The charges against a California family that led to an Appellate Court decision to ban home schooling in the state have been dropped by the family court judge involved in the original case.The Appellate Court’s ruling arose from a child welfare dispute between the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services and Philip […]

Paul Zachary Myers, a professor at the University of Minnesota Morris, has pledged to desecrate the Eucharist. He is responding to what happened recently at the University of Central Florida when a student walked out of Mass with the Host, holding it hostage for several days. Myers was angry at the Catholic League for criticizing […]

To protest student fees for religious services at the University of Central Florida (UCF), a student walked out of a campus Mass on June 29 with the Eucharist. Webster Cook, a student senator, finally returned the Host this past weekend. 
Catholic League president Bill Donohue offered the following remarks today:
“For a student to disrupt Mass by […]

 German family that fled to Canada for refuge from Germany’s persecution of home-schooling is taking its case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The family escaped Germany after police made an unsuccessful attempt to storm their home and seize the children to put them into state custody.The International Human Rights Group, a […]

Sometimes extra-curricular activities seem to teach our kids more about excellence than academic subjects.
One of my sons is a singer.  Throughout his high school career, he has sung for various conductors.  One conductor decided to teach that it would be fun to show people what would happen if a high school chorus or orchestra used […]

Louisiana public school teachers can now educate their students about the theory of intelligent design and scientific criticisms of Darwinian evolutionary theory thanks to a new law signed this week by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. The Louisiana Science Education Act now allows teachers to supplement the state’s curricula with additional scientific materials, but groups opposed […]

 survey focused on low income families with children attending inexpensive private schools found that parents say their children do better academically and experience fewer social problems than children at public schools, according to the results of new research published by The Fraser Institute, an independent research organization.”The parents surveyed reported lower incidences of bullying, fighting, […]

The ongoing debate over the nature of Islam and the level of threat that it may pose to America has been loud and vitriolic.  On one side, there are those who proclaim that Islam is a religion of peace, and that anyone who sees it as a danger to our way of life is wildly […]

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized Jesuit administered Boston College for sponsoring and hosting Love Across Boundaries, which is being advertised as “a panel conversation with Boston couples who focus on their own interracial, interfaith and same-sex  Love Across Boundaries”.  Featured participants will include Paul McLaughlin, Assistant Dean of Harvard College and his […]

In November, Floridians are slated to vote on two amendments to their state’s constitution that would, if approved, allow for school vouchers. But today an array of groups filed suit asking the Second Circuit to block the vote.
Commenting on this is Catholic League president Bill Donohue:
“The Florida Constitution contains provisions of what was once known […]

More than 1.23 million high school seniors will fail to graduate in the class of 2008, according to a new study conducted by the Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) Research Center. Now that the drama over the Democratic nominee has subsided, the presidential candidates must return to issues that threaten to hobble America in a […]

What is the purpose of education?
Is it to open doors of knowledge and opportunity to all who enter, regardless of family background?  Or is it to train tomorrow’s workforce?
The answer to that question will determine what schools will look like in the next decade, and what society will look like in the next generation.  Yet […]

Five people in Tennessee, who hold homeschool diplomas, have recently been deemed unqualified for certain positions of employment becasue of their homeschooling.  Since last year, the Tennessee Department of Education has begun withholding approval of such diplomas, but Representative Mile Bell has been fighting to gain back the recognition these diplomas previously enjoyed. 
Bell told LifeSiteNews.com […]

A prominent UK charity has been implicated in the production and distribution of a sexually explicit “educational” pamphlet aimed at children as young as seven. The booklet has been removed from one school in West Surrey after complaints from parents, but the charity responsible, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), […]

National Professional Teachers’ Organization of South Africa announced on Friday that they have no plans to hand out condoms to pupils.  Instead, they are encouraging teachers to advocate abstinence.Union spokesman Mogamad Gasant stated, “We will not hand out condoms to learners. We do not support such a move in the Western Cape or in any […]

John is an investor.  One day he was approached by Harry with a request to invest in Harry’s business.  The business sounded like it was based on a good idea, so John asked to see the financial records to evaluate Harry’s performance.
Harry provided the records, and John began to read through them.
He found that Harry […]

Crystal Dixon, an African American and high ranking administrator of the University of Toledo, summarily fired because she wrote an editorial expressing her Christian views against homosexuality and objecting to the comparison of so-called “gay rights” with the civil rights struggles of African Americans, has retained the Thomas More Law Center to represent her.  The […]

In what many consider a victory for the children of Massachusetts, a budget measure passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives to increase its previous $500,000 funding of ‘gay friendly’ programs targeting school children to $750,000, was cut back by $200,000 by the Senate Ways and Means Committee. This partial cutback was the government’s response […]

The Student Union at Queensland University have shown themselves to be opposed to differing opinion and free speech like many other secular universities around the world.The school’s Newman Society has been censored and threatened with disaffiliation from the student union because union leaders believed the group’s “pro-woman” and “pro-pregnancy” campaign took a stand against abortion.
The […]

It’s been discovered. Nobody thought having “safe sex” was possible in every case. Each year 2.6 million teenagers become sexually active-a rate of 7000 per day. With high school, nearly half report having engaged in sexual activity and 1/3 are currently active (Kim/Rector//Heritage Foundation).As it turns out, teen sexual activity is extremely costly for teens […]

Dawn Eden, the US author and chastity campaigner, relates the story of her lecture tour in the Catholic high schools in Ontario where the girls “competed to wear the shortest skirts” and students defiantly told her that they “loved sex.”
Eden described Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School in Strathroy, as her “toughest crowd” from which some […]

Every year, my children look forward to the Parish VBS (Vacation Bible School) Program. They enjoy the fellowship, the songs, the arts and crafts and my older children look forward to putting on the plays. I have always been fairly satisfied with the VBS program, but felt it was missing something. I wrote about this […]

Administrators at the University of St. Thomas, a Catholic university and private college in Minnesota, censored the appearance of prominent pro-life and black speaker Star Parker. On April 21, 2008, Star - the best-selling author of numerous books - was slated to speak on campus about the devastating impact abortion has on minority communities. UST Vice President of Student Affairs Jane Canney nixed the idea entirely, citing "concerns" that the lecture was being underwritten by Young America's Foundation.

Katie Kieffer, a 2005 alumna of St. Thomas and founder of the independent conservative newspaper on campus, the St. Thomas Standard, as well as the non-profit Conservative Student News Inc., was an organizer of the Star Parker lecture. She confronted Canney on her refusal to allow Star on campus.

The March 14 issue of the University of Virginia's student paper, The Cavalier Daily, featured a cartoon depicting a naked man smoking a cigarette in bed. Standing beside the bed, a woman in her underwear buttons up her shirt and asks, "Come on God, be honest-Did you really get a vasectomy? I can't let Joseph find out about this." The man replies, "Well, Mary, you're F***ed." Yesterday's paper ran a comic portraying a crucified Jesus telling jokes onstage.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue had this to say:

Newsweek magazine recently celebrated the latest trend in elite Northeastern colleges: sex magazines, complete with highbrow titles — like "Boink." In applauding the shifting sexual mores of American youth, reporter Jennie Yabroff noted that these enterprising students "no longer see a distinction between their bedroom behavior and their publishing activities," and consider their sex-magazine careers in college to be building blocks for the business world.

"I continually tell my mom this is a great résumé builder," says Alecia Oleyourryk of her career publishing "Boink" magazine at Boston University. Newsweek now needs a sociologist to affirm the wisdom of these "young sexperts." Cue Pepper Schwartz, a sociologist at the University of Washington. "Maybe their generation will take this a lot less seriously than we do," she says.

Three quarters of teachers polled by a quasi-official teachers' professional journal said they think sex education should be compulsory, with parents losing their right to pull their children from the classes, the Daily Telegraph reports. The Times Educational Supplement (TES) poll found that more than 60 per cent of primary teachers and 35 per cent of secondary teachers said lessons should start as young as nine. A further quarter of primary staff said classes should begin at seven.

Gregory Carlin, spokesman for the Irish Anti-Trafficking Coalition, a group that monitors the sexual exploitation of children, told LifeSiteNews.com that such a move would be a case of coercion where no coercion is necessary. He said, "According to every criterion sex educators use to audit their work" (age of first intercourse, under-age sex, teenage pregnancy, incidence of abortion, sexually transmitted diseases) "sex education as currently practised in Britain has failed to produce the positive outcomes".

My blood would be boiling if I had not promised the Lord that I would surrender my temper to His loving care as one of my sacrifices this Lenten season.  So I cannot tell you that I am angered, but I sincerely am concerned about the example that is being set for Catholics around our […]

Every year, during the last week of January, this nation's 2.4 million Catholic school students and the 200,000 dedicated educators who nurture them pause to celebrate "Catholic Schools Week".  This year's celebrations, to be held January 27 through February 2, center on the theme "Catholic Schools Light the Way."   Around the country, 7,800 Catholic elementary, […]

In oral arguments last week, the Thomas More Law Center asked Maryland state circuit court judge William Rowan III to overturn a Maryland Board of Education ruling that approves of public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, teaching 8th and 10th graders that homosexuality is innate-meaning they are born that way.  The schools also show how […]

This January 22, the entire student body of Christendom College, as well as members of the faculty and staff, will join the hundreds of thousands of pro-life American's at the 35th Annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. Christendom has cancelled classes for the day and the Student Activities Council has charted buses to transport […]

"In this day and age it is intellectually irresponsible to believe in God."  Two hundred 18 and 19 year-old students, attending a top university, listened to their renowned philosophy professor make this statement in their classroom. While many most likely walked out upset and bewildered, others left in agreement and with newfound doubt and confusion.
While […]

In a 5-4 decision the Halton Catholic District School Board decided Tuesday to ban the anti-Catholic book , The Golden Compass and the other two books in the His Dark Materials anti-religion series. 
The film, The Golden Compass has ignited interest in the books and drawn the attention of Catholic leaders the world over who […]

Sex education can be based on sound moral principles as well as accurate information and does not have to include information about immoral practices or contraception, says a prominent Hong Kong churchman. Joseph Cardinal Zen, the Catholic bishop of Hong Kong has published a pastoral letter for Advent entitled "Love life, a Gift of God" […]

A key Vatican official has called the lack of public funding for Catholic schools in the US "a disaster." Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education, which includes seminaries, told a Vatican news conference that the US government should do more to allow parents to choose the educational option they desire […]

Minnesota's St. Thomas University has voted to remove the bylaw that maintained the sitting archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis as the Vicar General and Priest President of the University. The board of directors voted unanimously to change the university's bylaw and install soon-to-retire Archbishop Harry Flynn as chairman for a five year term. The move is […]

 
Yesterday, even though I didn't get a stitch of work done during my normal "office hours", I spent my day in what I consider to be a very productive fashion — I was a chaperon on my 13 year old son's school field trip.
After originally signing up to attend the field trip as a […]

The government of Sweden has announced it will be banning any religious activities in schools except for those directly related to religion classes. It is also directing that in religious education, religious ideas must not be taught as though they are objectively true. A columnist in the UK's far-left Guardian newspaper has urged Britain to […]

The leaves changing colors on the trees in my backyard and the points on the "No. 2" pencils growing a bit dull are primary indicators that the time for annual parent teacher conferences at my child's elementary school are drawing near. I'll be the first to admit that I am one of those parents who […]

Dr. Charles J. Dougherty, president of Duquesne University, has directed campus-based radio station WDUQ to stop running advertisements for Planned Parenthood. He based his decision on the hostility to Catholic Church teachings by Planned Parenthood, the nation's leading advocate for abortion.
Planned Parenthood has launched a public relations effort to put pressure on the university to […]

The bishop of the Diocese of Worcester, Bishop Robert J. McManus, has issued a frank condemnation of the decision by the local Jesuit-run College of the Holy Cross to rent their facilities for a conference featuring NARAL and Planned Parenthood workshops.
Bishop McManus has issued a scathing statement confirming that he has requested that college President, […]

The Cardinal Newman Society announced the publication of a new comprehensive college guide for students and parents, The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College: What to Look for and Where to Find It. Edited by Joseph A. Esposito, The Newman Guide will be officially published on Nov. 1, 2007.
The culmination of two years of […]

On Wednesday, September 26, the Memorial University of Newfoundland Students' Union Board of Directors (MUNSU) voted to deny official club status to Memorial University of Newfoundland Students for Life (MUN for LIFE).
MUN for LIFE President Patrick Hanlon informed LifeSiteNews.com that when the proposal to grant club status to the pro-life group came up, the chair […]

For years, I have window shopped for a new kitchen table, admiring the sleek lines of those glass top models with wrought iron legs that grace furniture showrooms. But recently, I've realized that I've become very sentimentally attached to the square Shaker-style table whose wood has never really matched the color of my kitchen cabinets. […]

With the school year getting underway, the law firm of Mauck & Baker has prepared a list of opportunities and rights to inform parents how to help reinforce the values taught in their homes in the public schools.
The news has reported irresponsible behavior by public school educators such as the Montana school district which […]

Three parents' groups have filed papers in Montgomery, Maryland Circuit Court on Tuesday to request a halt to the planned start of a homosexual curriculum in county schools. Barring a court decision, the school board, after a lengthy battle, will implement a curriculum that will introduce children to the homosexual movement's political doctrines in the […]

Spain's socialist government is facing a bitter back-to-school fight this September as thousands of families boycott the pro-homosexual course "Education for Citizenship and Human Rights."
The Spanish Family Forum reports that at least 15,000 "conscientious objections" out of 200,000 students have been officially registered with school authorities. However, the number is understated because whole provinces have […]