NEW ORLEANS (RNS) A Catholic high school that was the country's last refuge of corporal punishment has ended a legal struggle over control of the school and agreed that the days of paddling are over. ...

NEW ORLEANS-- For the past 60 years, teachers and administrators at St. Augustine High School in New Orleans have wielded an 18-inch-long wooden paddle -- euphemistically called "the board of ...

An archbishop has ordered officials at a Black Catholic school in New Orleans to refrain from corporal punishment practices, despite the support of many students and families for the disciplinary ...

It's unlikely most schoolboys would want to be spanked and end up with a red bottom when they misbehave. But students at St Augustine High School in New Orleans, Louisiana, have been holding a rally ...

Spanking is quite controversial in some quarters. Some people speak of it as if it is tantamount to child abuse. Other say, that they were spanked as children, that it didn’t do any long-term harm, ...

The Catholic bishops of New Zealand are calling on government to support and help parents make the best possible decisions for the upbringing of their children. Last week, the Catholic bishops issued ...