National Catholic Register

St. Isidore Knew a Secret: If You Want to Be a Saint, Be a Student

What does it mean to be intelligent? Today we celebrate the feast of St. Isidore of Seville (560-636), a bishop and scholar from Spain whose wisdom and writings resulted in mass conversions. His life ...
Yahoo

Can a charter school be religious? The Supreme Court decision about St. Isidore, a Catholic school in Oklahoma, could redraw lines around church and state in education

If approved, St. Isidore's would be the first religious charter school. Jonathan Kirn/The Image Bank via Getty Images The ruling involving St. Isidore “stands to be one of the most significant ...
Yahoo

St. Isidore asks state Supreme Court to stay an order to cancel its contract

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Attorneys for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School have asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court to stay its order that the ...
Gizmodo

The patron saint of the internet is Isidore of Seville, who tried to record everything ever known

In 1997 Pope John Paul II declared Isidore of Seville the patron saint of the internet. Saint Isidore died in the year 636, long before the first host-to-host ARPANET connection in 1969. But Isidore ...
CNN

Supreme Court fight over Catholic charter school could clear the way for taxpayer-funded religious schools

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a blockbuster dispute over the nation’s first religious charter school, a case that critics say has prompted a “crisis of identity” in the school ...
National Catholic Register

St. Isidore the Farmer, Pray For Us!

Isidore was born into a peasant family in Madrid, Spain. Although his family was poor, they were rich in the love of God and taught him to dedicate himself to God’s service. The boy was named for ...
The Washington Post

Lawsuit aims to halt the opening of nation’s first religious charter school

A group of parents, clergy and education activists in Oklahoma have filed a lawsuit asking a state court to block the opening of the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which could become ...
Fides

VATICAN - The Holy Father’s catechesis focuses on the lessons that Saint Isidore of Seville “leaves us, Christians of today, called to witness to Christ at the beginning of ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Saint Isidore of Seville, younger brother of Leander, bishop of Seville, and great friend of Pope Gregory the Great, is considered the last of the ancient Christian ...
Ars Technica

Patron saint of the Internet smiles on Boston College data center

Boston College recently relocated its data center into an old seminary dormitory formerly owned by the Catholic Church. This would hardly be news, except for the fact that the data center’s new digs ...
BusinessMirror

Saint Isidore, patron saint of farmers

In Photo: A painting of Saint Isidore the Farmer, by an anonymous artist. WHERE in the Philippines do people decorate their houses with colorful flowers considered as rice-flour delicacies? In the ...
The Conversation

Can a charter school be religious? The Supreme Court decision about St. Isidore, a Catholic school in Oklahoma, could redraw lines around church and state in education

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Oklahoma can open St. Isidore: an online Roman Catholic charter school named after the patron saint of the internet. If affirmed, the school would be the ...