{"id":14175,"date":"2012-02-20T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholiconnection.com\/2012\/02\/real-catholic-schools-are-the-ones-rising.html"},"modified":"2012-02-20T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T22:11:00","slug":"real-catholic-schools-are-the-ones-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/real-catholic-schools-are-the-ones-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Catholic Schools Are the Ones Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"
From the Cardinal Newman Society:<\/p>\n
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The Faithful Catholic College\u00a0Boom<\/h2>\n
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It\u2019s springtime for faithful Catholic colleges in America, the\u00a0National Catholic Register<\/a>\u00a0is reporting, with an emphasis on those featured in\u00a0The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College<\/a><\/em>.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>For a variety of reasons, many parents\u00a0are thinking long and hard about where they\u2019re sending the kids to college and because of that, many faithful Catholic colleges are seeing increases in enrollment and a bright future ahead.<\/div>\n
Whether it\u2019s the online classes of The Augustine Institute in Denver, the affordability and faithfulness of Ave Maria University, the focus on new media at John Paul the Great University, or the Great Books curriculum<\/b> at the College of Saint Mary Magdalen, faithful Catholic colleges are noticing an increase in interest.<\/div>\n
\u201cOur enrollment is definitely growing,\u201d said Derry Connolly, president of John Paul the Great Catholic University in San Diego.<\/div>\n
The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts <\/b>of New Hampshire freshman class has grown by 25% in each of the past two years.<\/div>\n
Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif. <\/span>[Great books]<\/span><\/b> is looking at a 20% increase in enrollment for next year.<\/span><\/div>\n
But it\u2019s more than the strong curriculum and the low tuition. According to\u00a0Father James Shea, the president of the University of Mary,\u00a0\u201cSerious Catholic families are looking for a good place where their students can get a quality education in a values-based Catholic environment and where they can be confident in the safety and security of their students,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
For many parents, faithful Catholic colleges like those featured in\u00a0The Newman Guide to Catholic Colleges<\/a>, are an answer to a prayer. A lot of prayers.<\/div>\n
You can read the entire piece at\u00a0The National Catholic Register<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is good news in two respects. First, there are alternatives to this hogwash [here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>] at many of our Catholic schools. Second, the great books and liberal arts programs will be educating thousands in how to think independently 101<\/i>. I.e. Students will be learning about the different story of western thought from Plato to Quine and how we got where we are today instead of being shoved into a scientific specialization with a implicit positivist\/empiricist view of the world. Yes, it is important to ask the question again. Latest is the greatest may work with technology<\/a>, but in other areas like philosophy…people tend to repeat their mistakes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Cardinal Newman Society: The Faithful Catholic College\u00a0Boom It\u2019s springtime for faithful Catholic colleges in America, the\u00a0National Catholic Register\u00a0is reporting, with an emphasis on those featured in\u00a0The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College. For a variety of reasons, many parents\u00a0are thinking long and hard about where they\u2019re sending the kids to college and […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[159,50,26,21,160,77,81,161,3,162,163,67,164,165,7,130],"class_list":["post-14175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-ave-maria-university","tag-catholic","tag-catholicism","tag-classical-philosophy","tag-derry-connolly","tag-doctrine","tag-education","tag-ex-corde-ecclesiae","tag-faith-and-reason","tag-father-james-shea","tag-great-books-2","tag-metaphysics","tag-national-catholic-register","tag-serious-catholic","tag-thomas-aquinas","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/college-photo_10911._445x280-zmm.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}