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,…

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…

 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…

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…

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…

 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 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…

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…

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.

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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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

"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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Purpose: To raise serious questions regarding the propriety of opening Khalil Gibran International Academy

Participants: Coalition of New Yorkers across faith communities

When: 12:15 p.m., September 4, 2007

Where: Steps of New York City Hall

Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains why he is joining the rally:

"There…

The new "Discrimination and Harassment in the Workplace" policy, recently released by the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), bans discrimination due to "same-sex partner status" and "sexual orientation". The document, a copy of which has been obtained by LifeSiteNews.com,…

Illinois School District 126, covering Alsip, Hazelgreen and Oak Lawn, has defended its choice to assign summer reading to 12- and 13-year-olds that is replete with harsh profanity and references to teen sex (even teen sex with adults).

Prairie Junior High…

Claiming it is nothing more than a thinly disguised incubator for Islamist radicalization, the Thomas More Law Center, a national Christian public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced today that it will represent a group of citizens…

This article appeared in the May 2007 BreakPoint WorldView magazine.

George Orwell or Franz Kafka could have been writing the headlines last fall when author Elif Shafak was put on trial in her homeland of Turkey. Her crime, "insulting Turkishness,"…