Catholic Education in the United States: Historical and Legal Perspectives

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium features four presentations centered on Catholic schools, each appearing in a recently released definitive work on faith-based schooling in the United States. The current session delves deeply into important milestones in the history of Catholic education, pertinent legal issues—both state and federal—regarding religious schooling, and current challenges and opportunities facing Catholic education. The symposium presentations, and integrative comments offered by the chair, will also address implications of this collective inquiry for contemporary Catholic schools and highlight new topics and trajectories of research in the growing field of Catholic educational research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Catholic Education

Chair

• Thomas C. Hunt, University of Dayton

Papers

• Catholic Schools in the United States From Colonial Times to Vatican II - Thomas C. Hunt, University of Dayton

• Catholic Schools in the United States From Vatican II to the Present - Ronald J. Nuzzi, University of Notre Dame; James Mario Frabutt, University of Notre Dame; Anthony C. Holter, University of Notre Dame

• State and Federal Regulation of Faith-Based Schools - Ralph Mawdsley, Cleveland State University

• Leading Supreme Court Decisions on Faith-Based Schools - Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton