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‘We pray that this peace walk touches someone’s heart’

Students at the Academy of St. Benedict the African, 6020 S. Laflin St., sang and prayed for peace as they led donors, parents and other community members around their block Oct. 19.

Sts. Faith, Hope and Charity school awarded Blue Ribbon

Students, faculty and staff at Sts. Faith, Hope and Charity School were feeling blue Sept. 19. Or, rather, they were feeling like Blue Ribbon winners.

Catholic grade schools prepare students for high school starting early

As eighth graders from across the Archdiocese of Chicago prepare for the next phase of their academic careers, Catholic school educators say that preparing for high school starts long before students get to eighth grade, or even middle school.

Siblings create Catholic school scholarship in memory of parents

Chicago attorney Mark Brennan and his seven siblings have created a scholarship to help more families like theirs access Catholic education. The Dorothy C. and Edward A. Brennan Scholarship, named for Brennan’s parents, will be awarded to Catholic school students from families with three or more children.

St. Ferdinand School Class of 1953 reunites for 70th anniversary

About two dozen members of St. Ferdinand School’s class of 1953 gathered in front of the church at Barry and Mason avenues in Chicago on June 4 to celebrate 70 years since they graduated.

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).
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