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Catholic Education in the 21st Century, by Dr. Alex Lessard – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Dr. Alex Lessard, Catholic Exchange May  19, 2023

Alex Lessard studied theology as an undergraduate at the University of St. Thomas (MN) with Don Briel, the founder of the Catholic Studies movement, who introduced him to the writings of St. John Henry Newman and to the breadth and depth of Catholic literature.

Back in the mid-1800s, America’s bishops met three times in plenary council in Baltimore, America’s primatial see, to confront head-on the danger that Catholics, unsupported by the kind of Catholic culture they had known in Europe, would blend into American culture so thoroughly that they would lose their distinctive Catholic faith, and possibly their souls. To meet this threat, the councils required pastors to build schools as soon possible after founding new parishes; mandated that parishioners support their schools; and even required that these schools be as good as the neighboring public schools.  …

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