This article offers background information on U.S. trends in Catholic school enrollment from 1965 through the present, and presents a case study of one school that is attempting to address issues of enrollment, identity, effectiveness, and the elusive but critical essence of making a difference in the lives of students. The importance of…

Prejudice and discrimination against lesbian, gay and bisexual students, faculty, and staff on college campuses is an important issue that demands attention. Intolerance for the lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) community is often intensified by a lack of knowledge and understanding between heterosexuals and the LGB community, a problem that could…

This document is a discussion of civil and canon law as they apply to directors of religious education and youth ministers working in the Catholic Church. Courts no longer exercise judicial restraint with regard to matters of religion as they did before 1960; nor does the doctrine of charitable immunity still protect churches and other charitable…

Written in Spanish, the article discusses the relationship between the Catholic and the Chicano in South Texas from 1836 to 1911. (NQ)

Article examined a public relations effort designed to acquaint parents and the community with the development of Catholic schools in Northern New Jersey. (RK)

After seeing a keen interest stimulated by a residential course of political training, the executive of the Youth Movement (Democrazia Cristiana) in the province of Reggio Emilia (Italy) decided to abandon the traditional training methodology, which consisted of one or two residential courses evey year on current political issues on the party's…

Three studies explored some of the dimensions of the present crisis facing the Catholic church. A scale was developed to assess the liberal-conservative nature of this conflict. Liberal religious attitudes were associated with degree and amount of liberal religious education and with achievement, motivation, and intelligence within a liberal…

This report, presented to the Cincinnati Area Commission on Education, concludes a study which tested the hypothesis that all Catholic schools in the inner city area of Cincinnati, Ohio should be invited to form a special mini-system under the direct supervision of the Archdiocesan Superintendent of schools. The hypothesis was intended to answer…

THIS STUDY EXPLORED THE EFFECTS OF A DECLARED INSTITUTIONAL GOAL OF VALUE-ORIENTATION ON THE VALUES OF STUDENTS. THE OBJECTIVES WERE--(1) DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THE LARGE AMOUNTS OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE THEOLOGY REQUIRED IN A CATHOLIC COLLEGE HAVE AN APPRECIABLE IMPACT ON STUDENTS, (2) DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE PRODUCES…

This book discusses collective bargaining in Catholic schools. The topics covered include the background of teacher unions in Catholic schools, how unions get started, the process of collective bargaining, the teacher contract, and the effects of unions on Catholic school personnel. A glossary and seven-page bibliography complete the document.…

The bibliography lists books and pamphlets dealing with private education, published or reprinted in the United States and England from 1950 through 1974. Each of the 866 entries is annotated by a series of terms describing the subject matter and author's approach. The entries are divided into nine major sections covering (1) general, descriptive,…

The author's study of 350 institutions affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church finds them to be as diverse as American higher education itself. Unless they survive the financial crisis so many are now experiencing, higher education will lose one of its great resources for the advancement of humanistic and philosophical disciplines. The author…