John Carr's vocation was as a layman working to help the church share, apply and act on the principles of Catholic social teaching. Now retired, he looks back on his 50 years of service and shares ...

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.

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 ...

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.

On Wednesday, I began my review of Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis by Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny and Fr. Christian Barone, in which I looked at the beginning ...

Catholic schools are very important to the students. In Catholic schools, we're all one large family. Everyone cares about one another and we all look out for each other, no matter what our ...

Photo via iStock. Credit: Baona. This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. In his 1962 book Travels with Charley: In Search ...

In this Feb. 28, 2013 file photo Italian President Giorgio Napolitano arrives for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. Giorgio Napolitano, the first ...

Sometimes we learn more from the dogs that don't bark and the wheels that don't squeak. It's likely you didn't hear much about the controversy over House Speaker John Boehner's recent commencement ...

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 ...