(1995-2003) and St. Mark's in Gordonsville to build St. Isidore the Farmer Church.” FATHER DAVID L ... After graduating from St. Joseph’s Catholic Central in Pittsfield, he entered the ...

SCOTUS got it right: Charter schools are public schools — and public means nonreligious. Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices ...

Much of the focus on the appeal of St ... Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School to the U.S. Supreme Court has been on how the case may test established legal doctrine on the separation of ...

Now comes Oklahoma, where the Catholic Church created St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School is seeking state recognition to become an explicitly religious charter school. The state’s ...

St. Isidore ... through a Catholic concept of the world and man”; they should be able explain the cultural influence of the Catholic Church; and they should be able to “retell how history ...

That May, St. Isidore applied to the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board to establish it as a virtual charter school that "fully embraces the teachings of the Catholic Church's Magisterium ...

(The aspiring virtual charter school is named after the Roman Catholic patron ... accept the teachings of the church with respect to certain principles.” “St. Isidore allows exceptions for ...

extend religion’s extraordinary winning streak at the Supreme Court and further lower the wall separating church and state. The Oklahoma school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School ...

even though St. Isidore was unapologetic about their plan to teach Catholic doctrine and the evangelizing mission of the church. But yeah, then the state attorney general sued to stop it ...

It would bury what remains of church–state separation ... not appear to care that non-Catholic Oklahomans would be subsidizing Catholic indoctrination if St. Isidore is approved, or that ...

Wright, among the group including Oklahoma parents, faith leaders and a public education nonprofit that have sued to block St. Isidore of Seville Catholic ... Separation of Church and State.

(RNS) — If St. Isidore prevails, it would suppress the U.S. founders’ beliefs in the separation of church and state and ... a case in which an online Catholic school in Oklahoma is claiming ...