How the SSPX Preserved Single-Sex Catholic Education, by Ashlyn Thomas

Catholic educators are now revisiting questions concerning the nature and purpose of education, as seen in the recently released Front Royal Statement. Perhaps among these questions should be whether the near-universal adoption of coeducational schooling has served the distinct educational needs of boys and girls as effectively as earlier Catholic models.

The decline of single-sex institutions has coincided with broader transformations in educational philosophy, many of which have subordinated moral and spiritual formation to the utilitarian concerns touted by progressive education. Consequently, the restoration of Catholic education requires examination of institutions that have maintained older pedagogical traditions….