Author: Deacon Richard D. Shewman

All of this raises another challenge with which Catholic schools struggle and for which there is little clarity. To what extent does a Catholic school have to model the values…

You can’t entirely fault the schools for the increase. It is expensive to operate a school. No longer can the schools rely on religious sisters who teach for a token…

What is the purpose of Catholic education? The most basic response to this question is to form people in their Catholic faith and to prepare them to live out their…

This time of year is usually set aside to honor Catholic Education and to encourage families to send their children to Catholic Schools. A lot of schools register students for…

The famous science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke, once wrote that “Any technology that is sufficiently advanced, seems like magic to earlier generations.” Both magic and technology are exercises of…

When you live in such a frightening world and the stories that help you understand that world are filled with demons, ghosts, vampires and witches, all of whom have the…

I was a middle age adult in 1997 when the first Harry Potter book was published. Even though I was an adult and supposed to be serious minded, I enjoyed…

As I explained earlier, natural law assumes that God is the ultimate source of the laws of nature.  As the author of the laws of nature, these laws reveal something…

The question that is still being debated is what has caused the climate change that we are now experiencing? One theory is that it is part of a long-term cycle…

Recently the UN held a conference in Poland on the need to move away from fossil fuels and toward energy sources that are less damaging to the environment. At the…