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Cleveland--Celebrating a decade of improving protections for LGBT students and girding for the struggles ahead, the Cleveland chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network gathered on June 30 for their annual banquet. The five Pathfinder Awards were given to an array of individuals and organizations who furthered the safe schools ideology in the past year. The Activist Organization award was given to St. Ignatius’ United Men of Just Acts, a group of students and staff dedicated to stamping out prejudice and hatred, while the Educator Activist honor was given to Katie Zabransky, a former counselor at St. Ignatius...

A reader recently sent an e-mail which opened with this question: "Has St. Ignatius High School never heard of Ignatius Press?" The institution in question is a Jesuit preparatory school in Cleveland, Ohio. I know very little about it (I'm told that tuition is around $11,000 a year), but I see that the school's website features the following quote: "The purpose of our education is to give a young man the tools whereby he can answer the question What does God want from me?" -- Rev. Robert J. Welsh, S.J., '54 Very nice. But, having read the school's required summer...

Last summer, Carl E. Olson at Catholic World Report, exposed the horrendous state of Catholic high school summer reading lists by highlighting one particularly smutty and ludicrously vulgar novel assigned to incoming freshmen at St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland.  And St. Ignatius wasn't alone - a quick google search revealed that dozens of other Catholic schools had assigned the same poorly written piece of garbage.  We really don't want to revisit here all the gratuitously lewd, crude and lascivious passages in this very unfortunates selection for teen reading. But for purposes of background and so that others can grasp the gravity...