A bold Catholic investment in inner city education September 16, 2021By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Schools, The Catholic Difference Today, inner-urban Catholic schools are a lifeline for children whose futures are being put at even greater risk by failing government schools and hidebound teachers’ unions that resist educational reform while engaging in various forms of ideological indoctrination.
Names & Numbers: Catholic schools tout good news September 15, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Names and Numbers, News, Schools This edition of Names & Numbers highlights good news in our Catholic schools.
Global perspective: John Carroll’s International Program paves a two-way street on awareness September 13, 2021By Paul McMullen Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Schools The program, which had 25 students from nine foreign nations for the 2020-21 school year, furthers the school’s mission, according to its website, “to develop students who will embrace opportunities and excel as leaders in our global society.”
Our Back Pages: Terrorist attack hit too close to home for Loyola Blakefield September 9, 2021By Paul McMullen Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, 9/11, Feature, Local News, News, Our Back Pages, Schools After receiving his earlier phone message, Mr. McNeal’s family had to endure three days of terrible uncertainty, of not knowing whether their son was dead or alive.
Miracle on MLK Boulevard September 4, 2021By Archbishop William E. Lori Catholic Review Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Schools This school will take its rightful place among all our Catholic schools because it is destined to be a place of faith and love.
Baltimore’s Cristo Rey Jesuit High requires COVID-19 vaccine for students, staff September 2, 2021By Paul McMullen Catholic Review Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Schools Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Baltimore required a COVID-19 vaccine for students, teachers and staff when it resumed classroom instruction for the first time in more than 520 days Aug. 23.
Archdiocese of Baltimore Catholic schools welcome back students August 30, 2021By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Schools After three months of virtual classes in spring 2020, and a 2020-21 year that included hybrid learning, schools welcomed children for regular school hours that will continue five days a week.
All in-person learning returns as enrollment ticks upward in Archdiocese of Baltimore schools August 29, 2021By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Schools The resumption of all in-classroom instruction comes as enrollment has increased approximately 6 to 7 percent from last year.
During schools convocation, Tom Alban and Robert Redfield awarded archdiocese’s highest education honor August 26, 2021By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Archbishop's Ministry, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Schools Two leaders who helped the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Catholic schools navigate the pandemic were honored with the Doris Musil Award, the highest honor the Catholic school system bestows each year.
Expanding Father Watters’ vision, St. Ignatius Parish will add grades to pre-school August 19, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Urban Vicariate The Jesuit footprint on local education expanded Aug. 19, with the announcement that the Loyola Early Learning Center, an initiative of St. Ignatius Parish in Baltimore and the Jesuit USA East Province, will open a kindergarten in September, with plans to grow into a PreK-Grade 4 school serving low-income children.
Mount de Sales graduate elected a successor to Mother Angelica August 18, 2021By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Consecrated Life, Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Vocations Buck, whose religious name is Mother Mary Paschal of the Lamb of God, was elected abbess in late July, taking on the same post that was once held by Mother Angelica.
Archdiocese of Baltimore schools issue mask guidance for fall August 16, 2021By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Schools The Archdiocese of Baltimore Department of Catholic Schools issued guidelines Aug. 16 for mask usage for the opening of schools this fall.
