#12414 The Future of Catholic Education w/ Dr. Darin Lovelace - Darin Lovelace
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🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“The Future of Catholic Education” This episode explores the vital role of parents in their children’s education, especially in Catholic schools. We also tackle concerns about the fairness of classical education in Catholic versus public schools, and how to advocate for a strong Catholic curriculum amidst changing educational standards.
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Questions Covered:
- 19:01 – I’m in my second year of teaching at a Catholic school. What does it mean that parents are the primary educators of their children when they outsource their education to us, especially as the kids get older?
- 25:00 – Isn’t it unfair for only Catholic schools to have classical education while public schools suffer with literacy rate plummet?
- 30:44 – My kids go to Catholic school. The new curriculum is bad. How do I advocate for a good Catholic curriculum?
- 35:56 – Why do Catholic schools allow people who oppose Church teaching to speak at their schools?
- 43:06 – Are there checks and balances in making sure that what’s being taught in the classroom is in line with Church teaching?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Kathy Answers Live. What a great privilege to get to talk with Dr. Angel Franks. |
| 0:20.0 | We don't do it too often |
| 0:21.5 | because she doesn't put out a book too often, but it's always great when it happens because she really is one of the best. And we started to talk a little bit there at the end of the hour about Catholic education, and that's what we're going to talk about this hour. Does it work? Can it work? What are the new paradigms or the new, oh, that was kind of a fancy word. |
| 0:39.6 | I don't even actually know new paradigms? What are the new? Oh, that was kind of a |
| 0:38.8 | fancy word. I don't even actually know what paradigms means. I just came out. I don't know. I'm sitting here with an educator, and I thought I was, I got a little big from my britches, but the new, the new modes and methods. I know what those words mean. If you'd like to talk about Catholic education 8883187-884, our guest is Dr. Darren Lovelace, |
| 0:57.6 | principal of Christo Ray High School in Sacramento, California, and a longtime Catholic educator. Dr. Lovelace, |
| 1:05.1 | thank you for being here with us. Appreciate it. How long have you been in Catholic education? |
| 1:09.4 | So I would say around 10 years. |
| 1:11.8 | I started teaching at Christo Ray High School in Sacramento in 2016. |
| 1:16.1 | I was there for seven years. |
| 1:18.5 | Got my doctorate of education in Sacramento. |
| 1:21.9 | Left Sacramento for two years in Denver as a principal of an elementary school, |
| 1:25.6 | Brookhill School there. |
| 1:27.0 | And now I'm back at Krista Ray in Sacramento as a principal. |
| 1:31.1 | So education longer than that, |
| 1:32.6 | but Catholic education for about 10 years. |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah, yeah, okay. |
| 1:35.4 | So I have to say there are, in some circles, |
| 1:39.4 | there is a kind of denigrating of Catholic education, |
| 1:42.2 | I think because people think the parish schools just |
| 1:44.8 | aren't what they were. |
| 1:45.8 | I mean, there's maybe a sense that the Catholic identity has been damaged at Catholic |
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