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Texas lawmakers vote to remove school choice provision from funding bill

Nov 20, 2023

By Jonah McKeown

The amendment would have allowed parents to make use of 75% of the cost of sending the student to public... Read more

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Oklahoma attorney general files lawsuit against nation’s first religious charter school

Oct 23, 2023

By Daniel Payne

State Attorney General Gentner Drummond, a Republican, announced the lawsuit in a press release on his website on Oct. 20. Read more

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Iowa bishop suggests ‘case-by-case approach’ to LGBT accompaniment

Oct 10, 2023

By Tyler Arnold

Bishop Thomas Zinkula of the Diocese of Davenport called for a pastoral “accompaniment of sexual and gender minorities” that is... Read more

Photo of the main entrance of Roncalli High School in Indiana.

Appeals court rules Catholic school allowed to hold employees to moral religious standards

Jul 14, 2023

By Tyler Arnold

Roncalli High School in Indiana refused to renew the contract of a guidance counselor because she entered into a homosexual... Read more

Classroom in a Catholic school.

Oklahoma board rejects initial proposal for Catholic charter school

Apr 12, 2023

By Jonah McKeown

A statewide board in Oklahoma voted Tuesday to reject a proposal brought by the Oklahoma Catholic Conference to create a... Read more

All Souls Catholic School and Church in Englewood, Colorado

Denver Archdiocese says fired lesbian teacher violated contract

Feb 8, 2023

By Kevin J. Jones

A teacher at a Catholic school in Denver was fired after the archdiocese learned of her same-sex relationship, which violated... Read more

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Iowa diocese bans use of puberty blockers, transgender pronouns in schools and parishes

Jan 18, 2023

By Peter Pinedo

The Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa, has banned the use of puberty-blocking drugs, transgender pronouns, and the use of bathrooms... Read more

Josh Gregor, a Latin teacher at Sacred Heart Academy in Michigan, competed on Jeopardy! Dec. 2, 2022.

Michigan Catholic high school teacher makes it onto ‘Jeopardy!’

Dec 11, 2022

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

While he didn’t make it all the way to the end, the Latin teacher at Sacred Heart Academy in Grand... Read more

Gia, an 8-month-old Bernedoodle, visits Sacred Heart of Jesus School in Baton Rouge twice a week with a group of Mercedarian Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.

Meet the therapy dog trained by Mercedarian sisters to help the students they serve

Sep 25, 2022

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

Students at Sacred Heart of Jesus School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are visited twice a week by Gia, an 8-month-old... Read more

Students at St. Thomas More School in Austria learn the importance of critical thinking, with an emphasis on logic over sole memorization.

Inside the first Catholic classical school in Austria

Aug 25, 2022

By Leonardo Colon

EWTN News In-Depth Correspondent Colm Flynn recently visited St. Thomas More School in Austria, which offers a unique, classically-based approach... Read more

Pope Francis met with members of the De La Salle Christian Brothers on May 21, 2022.

Pope Francis: Catholic schools should not be Christian in name only

May 21, 2022

By Courtney Mares

The pope spoke to the De La Salle Christian Brothers. Read more

How more Catholic schools are looking to minimize screen time

Sep 7, 2018

By Mary Farrow

Not long ago, introducing more technology into the classroom meant allowing third graders to play 15 minutes of Oregon Trail... Read more

Cardinal Donald Wuerl. Courtesy of Archdiocese of Washington.

Cardinal Wuerl's name vandalized on Catholic high school sign

Aug 21, 2018

A Catholic high school named after Cardinal Donald Wuerl was vandalized Monday, following continued criticism of the cardinal’s handling of... Read more