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Louisiana Catholic school features full-sized saints in every classroom
With more than $11,000 in donations, a new principal started a revitalization plan for her school, including new murals of saints, which "put religious feelings back in the school" and of which students are protective.
As World Youth Day closes, pope prompts volunteers to keep serving
Volunteers at Panama's World Youth Day showed it was possible to renounce one's interests in favor of others, the pope said.
Catholic high school gives students with disabilities a home
Tenth grader Raymond Tetschner is the first student to be a part of a Maryland Catholic high school's new program that supports students with intellectual disabilities in an inclusive setting.
Catholic Schools Week celebrated across U.S. this week
Nearly 1.8 million students are currently educated in 6,352 Catholic schools, in which the church welcomes "families of all backgrounds while maintaining our principles and teaching in a spirit of charity," said a key bishop on education.
At lunch in Panama, U.S. pilgrim questions pope on abuse crisis
Brenda Noriega, a youth minister from California, told journalists that although the experience of sharing a meal with the pope was "amazing," she said the crisis facing the Catholic Church in the United States was an issue "that we couldn't avoid talking about."
Catholic education official is used to thinking outside the box
Mary Pat Donoghue, the new education secretary at the USCCB, knows that Catholic schools have to be creative not just to compete, but sometimes to survive. She proved that by turning around a high school.
Grants help tighten security at nine Catholic schools
Surveillance and school entrance systems will get upgrades at archdiocesan elementary and high schools, thanks to $75,000 in funding from the Catholic Foundation of Greater Philadelphia.
Sister Mary Canavan, IHM, was Catholic school teacher for 60 years
In her 70 years of religious life with the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the native of Philadelphia taught mostly in archdiocesan schools, plus in Florida and South America.
Native Peruvian IHM sister laid to rest at Immaculata
Sister Marie Isabel Carpio-More, I.H.M., 75, served in her native South America in many capacities, especially in education, until seeking medical treatment in the U.S. in 2016.
Sister Kathleen Brabson, head of Mount St. Joseph Academy, dies
The Sister of St. Joseph was 71 and in the 53rd year of her religious life when she died Jan. 23. Viewings and Masses for her will be held Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 28 and 29.