Jesuit School postings at Substack shift the spotlight away from the adverse effects of Critical theories on public education to their even more pernicious effects on Catholic Jesuit education, both Jesuit secondary schools as well as Jesuit colleges & universities.
These postings at Substack coordinate with The Jesuit School: Ensnared in the Postmodern World, an online site I have put together for parents of current and future Jesuit students and for the thousands upon thousands of Jesuit alumni throughout the country. Here you can find essays and articles (added to biweekly) by various thinkers who provide analysis and insight regarding Critical theories, the Academy, and Critical Social Justice, which at Jesuit schools is corrupting genuine justice and Catholic Social Teaching. Here and here there are numerous links to Jesuit websites and as well as websites regarding education and culture. There are also links, which will continue to grow in number, to universities and colleges who refuse to submit to the pressures of the prevailing culture. These schools, many of them still unequivocally Catholic, have not abdicated their responsibility to train young men and women in the cardinal virtues,
As for myself, I am a baby boomer in the late autumn of my years, a 1968 graduate of Dallas Jesuit and a 1972 graduate of Cincinnati’s Xavier University.
Nothing in my experience as a teacher of public school students on a Sioux reservation, in the inner city, nor in suburbia, nor any of my experiences teaching students and working with other teachers while in the Peace Corps confirms what Critical Theorists, most of whom live and work in the cloistered confines of Academia, claim to be true about the world or about the United States.
It was as a student in a Jesuit high school that I first thought about becoming a teacher, and it was as a student at a Jesuit university that I decided to make that happen eventually. My deep and abiding respect for what Jesuit educational institutions have accomplished in the past and can accomplish in the future for their students does not alleviate my concerns about their current all-too-trendy and foolish state.
The Jesuits will not see it that way, of course. They see themselves proceeding toward a more just world.
I do not.
