All that being said, we are a long way from the days of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop. One reason why Catholic schools are costly for parents today (although no where near the cost of other independant schools) is that we no longer have the “cheap labour” force that once supplied ...
Since reporting on the situation at the Sacred Heart High School in Hammersmith, I’ve received a number of troubling emails from parents around the country who are reporting similar situations in their schools. I’m not going to name them, as yet, though one Catholic secondary in London has...
A secondary purpose is to prod all American men, of whatever faith, away from the demoralization of Secularism and more toward the ancient Judeo-Christian moral norms born of Western Civilization. Which means a return to critical thinking. ...
For public instruction there are the university, two technical institutes, a commercial high school, five gymnasium-lyceums, eight technical schools, a female institute for the preparation of secondary teachers, a national boarding school, and other lay institutions, besides a military college. There...
“Secondary ecclesiastical schools”, as the petits séminaires were then called, were made by the decrees of 9 April, 1809, and 15 November, 1811, dependent on the University. There was to be only one secondary ecclesiastical school in each department, and its course was to be that of the...