Like almost every other child in the Catholic parish where I grew up in Portland, Ore., my siblings and I were home-schooled. Our parish had a robust home-schooling community that organized group ...

NEW YORK — The history of Black Catholics in the U.S. is a dramatic mix of struggles and breakthroughs, but it has been largely ignored in the curriculum of Catholic schools.

The curriculum envisioned by St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School would be fairly typical for many private Christian schools in the United States, but a first for a taxpayer-supported ...

The history of Black Catholics in the U.S. is a dramatic mix of struggles and breakthroughs, but it has been largely ignored in the curriculum of Catholic schools. That may soon change.

At Holy Name Catholic School — in the small community of Escanaba, a stronghold of Catholicism, with 35.7% of the population being Catholic — the classical curriculum has produced great results.

“The core curriculum, with the theology requirement, is probably the most important component of Catholic identity,” said John Cavadini, director of the Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame ...

The history of Black Catholics in the U.S. is a dramatic mix of struggles and breakthroughs, but it has been largely ignored in the curriculum of Catholic schools. That may soon change. Amid the ...

NEW YORK — The history of Black Catholics in the U.S. is a dramatic mix of struggles and breakthroughs, but it has been largely ignored in the curriculum of Catholic schools. That may soon change.

Since 2010, more than 100 Catholic dioceses have decided to implement the Common Core curriculum, as have 45 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. In some cases, Catholic schools are following ...

The history of Black Catholics in the U.S. is a dramatic mix of struggles and breakthroughs, but it has been largely ignored in the curriculum of Catholic schools. That may soon change.

NEW YORK — The history of Black Catholics in the U.S. is a dramatic mix of struggles and breakthroughs, but it has been largely ignored in the curriculum of Catholic schools.

With that in mind, I stress the importance of art history as part of the curriculum of Catholic high schools. The Roman Catholic church was a major force in the development of Western art and culture.