Mount Saint Mary Catholic High School recently developed the Diplomas of Distinction program to enable students to better focus elective choices. The program allows students to focus on their interests and aspirations for college and future careers as well as missionary discipleship. 

Some years ago, a Catholic prep school invited me to address its parents’ association on the future of Catholic education. After describing how a truly Catholic education, stressing human and sacramental formation as well as intellectual competence, equipped young people to meet the challenges of a world that had lost its way, I got into a protracted dust-up during the Q&A period. 

WASHINGTON – The United Nations will convene their annual meeting on climate, COP26, on Oct. 31. In advance of the meeting, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, and Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on International Justice and Peace, together with Sean Callahan, president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services, released the following statement:

WASHINGTON – The Catholic Church in the United States will celebrate National Vocation Awareness Week, Nov. 7-13. Dioceses will hold events to foster an appreciation for all vocations and pray specifically for those discerning a vocation to ordained ministry and consecrated life.