The Cathoholic

Waiting for Superman

Waiting for Superman will transform your understanding of the problems that besest our broken public school system. In my two commentaries for Headline Bistro, I begin with the fight over the soul of public education led by Michelle Rhee and end with a look at the Catholic Church's own "superman" moment, as large nubmers of Catholic schools continue to close every year, a trend hitting inner-city students the hardest. After I posted my comments, I found tht Archbishop Dolan of New York had already made another connection with the documentry film: he suggested that Catholic schools provided an answer to the problems of inner-city schools.

When a Catholic Student Has "2 Mommies"

Last week, after an AP wire story reported that a Boston Catholic school denied a child admission because the student's parents were lesbians, the Boston Archdiocese struggled to contain the damage. Here's my story in the National Catholic Register, including Cardinal O'Malley's response, following his return from accompanying Pope Benedict XVI to Fatima.