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By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing, June 22, 2026
Robert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His most recent books are The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecution of Christians in the Twenty-First Century, Columbus and the Crisis of the West , and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.
There’s a strange ferment underway in American education. This week, two promising Catholic initiatives emerged: a gathering at Christendom College on K-12 education that resulted in the Front Royal Principles, and a high-level consultation in Washington D.C. organized by the Cardinal Newman Society, pursuing the renewal of everything from kindergarten to college-level Catholic instruction. But in recent months, there have been similar efforts for education renewal at secular universities: one from Yale – yes, Ivy-League Yale – addressing the “lack of trust” in higher education, and another convened jointly by Vanderbilt and Washington Universities over the crisis in the humanities. Among the various aims of these studies, the common concern is that much modern education, Catholic and not, is not working and needs to be different – and better. …
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