Menachem Wecker

Image, a Seattle-based journal with the tagline "art, faith, mystery," fired its founder and former CEO just months shy of its 30th birthday, and the decision is dividing the community around the publication. Founder Gregory Wolfe told NCR in an email that accusations against him are untrue.

A 1937 report of the National Catholic Educational Association focuses on educational standards and quality and on competing in the higher education marketplace without sacrificing Catholic culture's distinctiveness. Some 80 years later, that language remains timely.

As the first Catholic institution to agree to possibly certify a union of graduate students outside of a National Labor Relations Board process, Georgetown University sets a precedent for higher education and for religious schools — but still maintains that students are not "workers."

In 1642, it would have been hard to find a Jew in Spain. A century and a half prior, the Dominican Friar Tomás de Torquemada had convinced Catholic monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I to issue the Alhambra Decree on March 31, 1492, which offered Jews a choice: baptism or exile. 

Book Review: "Comparable stelae, hefty stone tablets from the ancient world, are on display at the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, the Pergamon in Berlin, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, but the Ten Commandments are nowhere to be found," the author writes.

La Salle University, a Catholic school located in a low-income north Philadelphia neighborhood, has deaccessioned 46 of its museum's artworks as part of a five-year strategic plan, causing concern among curators, museum directors and donors.

"When people think about Michelangelo, they first and foremost think of the Sistine ceiling. Then they probably remember, 'Oh yeah, he did the David and the Pietà.' They realize, 'OK. He's a painter and a sculptor.' Most Americans forget that he's also one of the world's most important architects. He built St. Peter's, after all."

About 75 students, professors and staff gathered to protest Georgetown University's recent decision not to recognize collective bargaining efforts by a group of graduate students, who identify as "graduate workers." Georgetown joins other private schools, including Loyola University Chicago and University of Chicago, in arguing that graduate students shouldn't be considered employees. 

Fordham University's adjunct and full-time non-tenure track professors and postdoctoral fellows voted yes to unionize with the Service Employees International Union Local 200United.

The exhibition "The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe," focuses of objects of an art genre called "memento mori," a Latin admonition to remember that everyone must die.

In October 2015, reports of the death of the Federal Perkins Loan Program, the nation’s oldest, proved greatly exaggerated when the program was extended. Now the program, founded in 1958, is again slated to expire, this time on Sept. 30.

Opponents of Trump significantly outnumber his supporters, and calls from Jews to other Jews to renounce the president have heightened tensions in synagogues, in the Jewish press and the wider Jewish world.

A series of incidents between faculty, students and the administration have divided the campus and brought tensions to a boiling point at the Jesuit university in New York.