A Catholic college in Kansas City is working to ensure the most marginalised can get qualifications. Michael Sean Winters talks to the new president of Donnelly College about Catholic identity and a unique approach to education
If you want to find a Catholic college that is in touch with the vision of Pope Francis, Donnelly College in Kansas City is a good place to start.“Donnelly is Pope Francis incarnate,” Mgr Stuart Swetland, the new president of the college, said. “If I take seriously the challenge of Pope Francis, for the New Evangelisation and the preferential option for the poor, then if this place did not exist it would have to be invented.”This small further education college in the American heartland of Kansas is not going to win any awards for the archi
23 October 2014, The Tablet
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