The U.S. House of Representatives could vote soon on legislation governing elements of a schools disciplinary policy and practice.
The bill (HR 4247) would affect all public schools and private schools whose students or teachers benefit from any federal education program (about 80 percent of Catholic schools, for example). The measure represents an unprecedented and unwarranted degree of federal regulation of religious and independent education.
The impact of the earthquake in Haiti will be felt for years, especially in the life of the Catholic Church. The cathedral, many parishes, Catholic schools and other church buildings have been destroyed. Pastoral programs will also need to be rebuilt so that the Church in Haiti will continue to be a place of sacramental life.
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For more than 178 years St. Xavier High School's educational heritage - inspired by more than 450 years of Jesuit tradition - has been a warm, welcoming atmosphere of learning, friendship and spiritual affirmation. Young men from more than 100 grade schools throughout Greater Cincinnati come to St. X's 110-acre campus and leave to populate the world as men with a genuine sense of home and belonging.
The Jesuit ideal of cura personalis - care of the whole person - synthesizes mind, body and spirit in an academically rigorous college preparatory education. St. Xavier High School offers an intentional focus on the intellectual, physical, spiritual, expressive and interpersonal gifts of its students as conveyed in the teachings of St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order. St. Ignatius said an education devoted to the full development of each student would produce Christian leaders capable of seeing God in all things and answering God's call.
98% of Catholic high school students graduate
98% of Class of 2009 continued their education
64% of Class of 2009 received scholarships, in excess of $173 million
75% of Catholic elementary students enter a Catholic high school