This story appears in the USCCB Fall 2016 feature series. View the full series. Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., outgoing president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, gives his ...

Catholic high school Spanish teacher Jennifer Vintigni speaks to students learning virtually from home and students working on-site during a class at Padua Academy in Wilmington, Del., March 30, 2021.

Pope Leo XIV said Catholic educators can learn four fundamental values from St. Augustine’s teachings: interiority, unity, love and joy. During his Oct. 31 audience with teachers in Rome for the Oct.

(RNS) — Depending on what kind of media you consume and the people you talk to, it’s clear that U.S. public education has either been hijacked by wokeism, safetyism and radical individualism or else ...

Father John Carroll’s consecration as America’s first bishop — fittingly, on the feast of the Assumption 1790 — marked the Church’s transition from infancy to adolescence in our country. More than ...

As an educator at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Tim Kaiser spends a lot of time thinking about the Nazis’ systematic effort to exterminate European Jewry. As a Catholic, he spends ...

David DeCosse is the director of religious and Catholic ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and is a regular commentator at National Catholic Reporter. Views are his own. Lessons From ...

(RNS) — Bishops might spend Lent doing penance, living on bread and water, camped out on the steps of their cathedrals. (RNS) — Too many Catholic prelates believe that, when it comes to clergy sexual ...

In 2017 I was invited on a sketching tour of Guatemala with a small group of Americans to observe some of the educational services operated by Catholic Relief Services, or CRS. In August of the ...

Hurricane Katrina forced Sue Heidel, her husband and three daughters to move to Houston. But they already feel right at home. Heidel, a teacher at New Orleans' Academy of the Sacred Heart, will be ...