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Catholic Education Needs Civic Formation, by Thomas P. Harmon – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Thomas P. Harmon, Catholic World Report, May 4, 2026

Dr. Thomas P. Harmon is Professor and Scanlan Foundation Chair in Theology at the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Texas, where he is also Division Dean of the Core and Centers for Excellence and directs the MA in Evangelization and Culture. …

(Editor’s note: This essay was published originally on the “What We Need Now” site and is republished here with kind permission of the author.)

Catholics have a tendency to want to escape particulars without doing the hard work of transposition into the messier concrete realm where we meet our neighbors.

There is a movement afoot in American education to restore the teaching of civics in a way that presents America as lovable and worthy of its citizens’ service. The most prominent places to see this new movement at work are in the creation of new civics institutes at public universities (for instance, ASU , UT Austin, UFL, OSU, UTK, UNC, and USU). Catholics are well-positioned to join this movement. What we need now is for Catholics to do so eagerly.

Catholic schools and universities speak frequently, and rightly, about the formation of the whole person. They speak about service, solidarity, human dignity, vocation, and the call to holiness. What they often speak about less confidently is citizenship. ….

Catholic Education Needs Civic Formation, by Thomas P. Harmon

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By Thomas P. Harmon, Catholic World Report, May 4, 2026

Catholics have a tendency to want to escape particulars without doing the hard work of transposition into the messier concrete realm where we meet our neighbors.

Catholic schools and universities speak frequently, and rightly, about the formation of the whole person. They speak about service, solidarity, human dignity, vocation, and the call to holiness. What they often speak about less confidently is citizenship. ….

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