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St. Jerome building new space for parish, school

St. Jerome School in Bridgeport is looking forward to its next 100 years with the construction of a new parish center and school gym.

St. Mary students partner with seniors to create mural

For four weeks this spring, eighth graders from St. Mary School in Buffalo Grove walked the mile from their school to the Belmont Village Senior Living facility to create a mural that now hangs on the wall of the residence.

Championship win: ‘I had a great time playing with such cool people’

Students from De La Salle Institute and Southside Occupational Academy Hub celebrated their state unified basketball championship April 19 with a pep rally featuring a video tribute, professional sports mascots, the band, cheerleaders and even a scrimmage.

Catholic high schools focusing on students’ mental health

Reports of anxiety, depression and other mental health issues among teenagers are rising across the United States, and Catholic schools are responding with a variety of strategies, including having therapy dogs visit schools, increasing counseling resources and letting students themselves take the lead in the mental health discussion.

Educating children: parents’ primary right

In his apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Francis reminds us that “the overall education of children is a ‘most serious duty’ and at the same time a ‘primary right’ of parents.” He goes on to write that even though the state offers education, it does so in a subsidiary way, for parents have an “inalienable right … to choose freely the kind of education … which they wish to give their children in accordance with their convictions” (84).

St. Andrew teacher finalist for Golden Apple Award

Rachel Werderits remembers how, early in her teaching career at St. Andrew School, the principal would sometimes come into her classroom while she was teaching to observe her.

School uses Lunar New Year to highlight AAPI cultures

Students in DePaul Prep’s AAPI Club and Chinese Honor Society celebrated the end of the Lunar New Year holiday Feb. 2 with a Lantern Festival.

Cardinal Cupich shares vocation journey with St. Andrew students

Cardinal Cupich’s path to priesthood did not include a “lightning bolt” moment, he told students at St. Andrew School, on Feb. 2.

Cardinal Cupich blesses prayer room at Academy of St. Benedict the African

The students and staff at the Academy of St. Benedict the African kicked off Catholic Schools Week Jan. 30 with a visit from Cardinal Cupich; Greg Richmond, the superintendent of Catholic schools for the Archdiocese of Chicago; and Josh Hale, president and CEO of the Big Shoulders Fund.

Beloved Fenwick teacher still helping after retirement

You could say that once Roger Finnell walked through the doors of Fenwick High School as a freshman in 1955, he never really left. Sure, he spent four years in college at Loyola University Chicago (class of 1963), but then he was right back at his alma mater.
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