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Staying, not straying: Catholic students at Catholic colleges
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jmcgee
These findings aren’t exactly surprising — but they might fuel some debate on just what makes a Catholic college “Catholic”: A new study finds Catholic students at Catholic colleges are less likely than Catholics attending public colleges to move away from the church’s teachings on a variety of issues. However, on the issue of same-sex…
The south is rising: Catholic schools booming in Atlanta
By
jmcgee
While other parts of the country (notably the northeast) are struggling to keep schools open, it’s a different story down south: Anne Mancini makes a sacrifice to send her daughter to Catholic School — she leaves her home by 6 a.m. crossing county lines to meet a chartered bus at a Suwanee mall bound for…
Church suppers with “Jerry” Salinger
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jmcgee
Of all the appreciations that have been written about the late, great, curiously quiet J.D. Salinger, this one in the New York Times, focusing on his hometown in New Hampshire, may be the most surprising and poignant: By all accounts Mr. Salinger loved the area. He would, until recent years, vote in elections and attend…
Most sinful nation on earth?
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jmcgee
One unscientific report has concluded it must be Down Under: Australia is the most sinful nation on earth, as befits a country founded as a penal colony. A BBC magazine show’s investigation has supposedly shown we Aussies are still born to be bad – coming out trumps in a global tally of the seven deadly…
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