Church Life Journal

The failure to respect and defer to the Inner Teacher within the soul of every person is a violation of the catechetical and intellectual sense of a Christian education. --Samuel Rocha hubs.la/Q03z2XBP0

While worldwide interest in higher education grows, the same trends threatening liberal arts colleges in the United States can be found in the Philippines or Chile. --Timothy O'Malley hubs.la/Q03z09Yh0

The failure to respect and defer to the Inner Teacher within the soul of every person is a violation of the catechetical and intellectual sense of a Christian education. --Samuel Rocha hubs.la/Q03z30pd0

Newman insists in The Idea of a University that liberal education has goods internal to it; its value is not to be measured by its extra-curricular pay-off. --Thomas Hibbs hubs.la/Q03z09RX0

Traditional modes of grading—and the behaviorist presuppositions that inform them—do not help create a learning environment where students and teachers grow in their ability to wonder and understand. --Alessandro Rovati and Jason Heron hubs.la/Q03z09Xx0

The failure to respect and defer to the Inner Teacher within the soul of every person is a violation of the catechetical and intellectual sense of a Christian education. --Samuel Rocha hubs.la/Q03z2Z120

Is research, if it is expressed precisely as a function of the distinctiveness of a Catholic university’s “privileged task,” also ultimately an illusion, a simulacrum of the real thing. --John Cavadini hubs.la/Q03z09Yd0

Liberal arts rankings imply an understanding of “best” that, from the definition, would prima facie exclude any Catholic colleges. --Jason King hubs.la/Q03z0bm70

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“[T]he catechetical, intellectual, magisterial, and pedagogical senses of a Christian education are measured according to their ability to not only love the world because God loved it, but, more deeply still, to love the world in the way that God has loved it….”

“In the final analysis, the basic question at hand is: ‘Ought the Church to understand human affairs in the light of Christ and the Gospel, or ought the Church to understand Christ and the Gospel in light of human affairs?’” churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/salva…

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The new Pontiff indicated in his first public remarks that he was inspired by Rerum Novarum. Time will tell how much this influences his pontificate, but if he looks to Leo XIII in a broader & deeper way, there's a vast array of other... --Luke Arredondo churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/leo-x…

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The first rule of rankings, like the first rule of Fight Club, is: Don’t talk about rankings. --John Cavadini hubs.la/Q03z0b6p0

When Francis, the most blessed servant of God, saw birds, he ran swiftly toward them, leaving his companions on the road. He was a man of great fervor, feeling much sweetness and tenderness even toward lesser, irrational creatures. --John C. Cavadini hubs.la/Q03xYQWH0

Leo’s papacy can be best understood as trying to make a coherent response to the changes of the modern world. --Luke Arredondo hubs.la/Q03yWl1N0

No careful reader of John Paul II can possibly regard John Paul’s II social teaching as being straightforwardly pro-capitalist. --Piotr Popiolek hubs.ly/Q03yRW8R0

Readers of papal social encyclicals tend to think about the genre as theologically agnostic since the audience for said letters are all people of good will. --Timothy O'Malley hubs.ly/Q03yRVKS0

In Catholic Social Teaching, we found a theology of technology that made intuitive sense. --Louisa Conwill hubs.ly/Q03yRWty0