After sexually abusing children for decades, Catholic brother lives under the...
When the Archdiocese of Seattle recently released the names of 77 priests, brothers, deacons and a nun reported to have sexually abused children over an 85-year-period, the list included a short entry...
View ArticleNorthwest suburban Catholic school will stay open
A northwest suburban Catholic school was able to stave off closing at at the end of the school year through successful fundraising and enrollment efforts, the Archdiocese of...
View ArticleSt. Alphonsus Liguori school to stay open after meeting funding, enrollment...
St. Alphonsus Liguori Catholic School has met its goal of raising $400,000 and enrolling at least 135 students, and it will remain open next school year, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced Thursday...
View Article4 Catholic schools in Archdiocese of Detroit to merge
Mark Hicks, The Detroit News 10:20 a.m. EDT June 6, 2015 Four Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Detroit are set to merge into a single regional one by the 2016-17 academic year, officials said...
View ArticleJune 27, 2014 - State of Catholic Education in The Archdiocese of Boston is...
(Source: Archdiocese of Boston) June 27, 2014 - State of Catholic Education in The Archdiocese of Boston is Strong Braintree, MA (June 27, 2014) -The Archdiocese of Boston is pleased to report that all...
View ArticlePius X alumni organize in effort to save Catholic school from planned closure
Pius X High School alumni and others with ties to the Catholic school have launched a fundraising effort to pay off the school's debt and convince the Diocese of Allentown to keep it open. The diocese...
View ArticleCPS: No budget cuts for schools with lower enrollment
Chicago Public Schools that don’t meet their enrollment projections will not see their budgets cut after all, CPS announced Monday. Under the system’s new student-based budget model, schools that fell...
View ArticleArchdiocese to close 6 schools at end of year
Updated: January 9, 2014 2:04PM The Archdiocese of Chicago plans to close up to six schools at the end of the academic year, but at least two of schools hope to find a way to keep their doors open. “As...
View ArticleThird Chicago-area Catholic school granted reprieve, keeps doors open
Updated: March 3, 2014 12:33AM One of the six Catholic schools the Archdiocese of Chicago recently announced would shutter after this school year was granted a reprieve, officials announced during the...
View ArticleThird Chicago-area Catholic school granted reprieve, will keep its doors open
One of the six Catholic schools the Archdiocese of Chicago recently announced would shutter after this school year was granted a reprieve, officials announced during the weekend. After being slated for...
View ArticlePius X supporters brainstorm ways to keep high school open by raising money,...
In an effort to prevent the closure of Pius X High School, more than 150 supporters gathered Friday night at the Bangor VFW to create an action plan to save their beloved school. The Diocese of...
View ArticlePius X, Our Lady of Mount Carmel supporters fight to keep schools open
Parents, students and alumni of two Catholic schools scheduled to close have been brainstorming ways to prevent the shutdowns. Officials announced in January plans to close Pius X Junior/Senior High...
View ArticleSister resigns after Wash. Catholic school turmoil
SEATTLE The president of a suburban Seattle Catholic school has resigned in the turmoil following the school's decision to force out a vice principal who married his same-sex partner. Eastside Catholic...
View ArticleCatholic school enrollment grows in Palm Beach County
After five years of decline, enrollment in Diocese of Palm Beach Catholic schools is slowly rebounding, with steady growth recorded at many schools over the past two years. Officials credit the...
View ArticleArchbishop Announces First Catholic School for Students with Special Needs...
(Source: Archdiocese of Sydney) Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese, 19 Dec 2014 The city's first-ever purpose-built Catholic secondary Special School for children with moderate intellectual...
View ArticleGroup: Archdiocese mishandling latest priest sex abuse allegation
Updated: December 9, 2013 7:37PM A network of survivors of priest sexual abuse is criticizing the Archdiocese of Chicago for its handling of an allegation of sexual misconduct by the pastor of a Lake...
View ArticleCatholic Church to close, merge a dozen schools in Chicago
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Catholic Church will close or merge a dozen of its 240 Chicago-area schools due to falling attendance in some areas of the country's largest parochial school system, the...
View ArticleArchdiocese announces it will close 3 more Catholic schools
The Archdiocese of Chicago announced Tuesday that it will shutter three Catholic schools at the end of the current school year, including one that underwent drastic changes last year. Archbishop Blase...
View Article2 Catholic schools granted reprieve from closures
Updated: January 25, 2014 2:09AM Two of the six Catholic schools the Archdiocese of Chicago recently announced would shutter after this school year were granted a reprieve, officials said Friday. Our...
View ArticleCatholic schools follow jobs out of inner city
Houston Chronicle HOUSTON — It was morning Mass at Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church, and rows of children — well-scrubbed, uniformed scholars at the church's new elementary school — silently...
View ArticleSmall Catholic school makes big gains in sustaining itself
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View ArticleStrong Response to Sydney's First-ever Catholic School for Students with...
(Source: Archdiocese of Sydney) Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese, 27 Oct 2015 Eileen O'Connor Catholic College for co-educational students with moderate intellectual disabilities and special...
View ArticleNew Catholic schools chief unsure of additional school closings
Like a teacher administering a test, the new schools chief for the Archdiocese of Chicago isn’t giving out any answers just yet. Jim Rigg says he’s still assessing the state of Catholic schools in...
View ArticleSouth Sudan's MacKillop High School Set To Enrol First 70 Pupils (Archdiocese...
(Source: Archdiocese of Sydney) Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese, 10 Jan 2014 Sydney's Sudanese Catholic Community will celebrate a milestone on 15 February when the first 70 high school...
View ArticleMother Catherine Spalding School to Close this June (Archdiocese of Washington)
(Source: Archdiocese of Washington) Parent Group Exploring Creation of a New Independent Catholic School on MCSS Property Friday, January 16, 2015 WASHINGTON - Mother Catherine Spalding School, a small...
View ArticleArchdiocese extends deal to manage Catholic high schools
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput Thursday morning said the Faith in the Future Foundation's management of archdiocesan high schools has been so successful that both sides have agreed to an early contract...
View ArticleNSW Budget Delivers The Good With The Bad For Catholic Schools (Archdiocese...
(Source: Archdiocese of Sydney) Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese, 17 Jun 2014 The 2014-15 NSW Budget confirms state funding will increase under the National Education Reform Agreement...
View ArticleTwo south St. Louis Catholic schools to close
Two south St. Louis parish schools will close after this academic year. The decision to shutter St. John the Baptist and Immaculate Heart of Mary comes as leaders of nine parishes on the city’s south...
View ArticleCook County Sheriff reopens investigation of priest
Updated: April 21, 2014 6:08PM The Cook County Sheriff’s office said Monday it has resumed investigating a Catholic priest just days after the Archdiocese of Chicago announced that a sexual abuse...
View ArticleCatholic Schools Week starts Sunday and two Chicago area schools are celebrating
There is much to celebrate for two Catholic schools in the Chicago area this week. After being told their schools were slated for closure by the Archdiocese, Our Lady of Victory on Chicago's north side...
View ArticleCatholic Schools Week 2014
Here's to you, Catholic Schools! This week, we honor Catholic education in the United States. National Catholic Schools Week was created for this specific purpose, and is the annual celebration of...
View ArticlePrincipal cites drop in enrollment at school
MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) — St. Alphonsus Catholic School in McComb will close at the end of the school year. Principal Timothy Roberts told the Enterprise-Journal (http://bit.ly/1qipk0c ) parents were...
View ArticleCatholic School Enrolments Break New Records (Archdiocese of Sydney)
(Source: Archdiocese of Sydney) Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese, 25 Feb 2014 Parents continue to turn to Catholic primary and secondary schools when deciding on their children's education...
View ArticleArchdiocese's 150th School Enrols First Students for New School Year...
(Source: Archdiocese of Sydney) Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese, 15 Jan 2015 The Archdiocese of Sydney's 150th school will open its doors in 2015 with enrolments for the first intake of...
View ArticleSad day when Catholic schools close
On the eve of his retirement Cardinal Francis George is the bearer of bad news, again. Thirteen Archdiocese schools will be closed or consolidated next June, George and the Office of Catholic Schools...
View ArticleCatholic school enrollment up for first time since 1965
Enrollment at Catholic schools across the Chicago region is up for the first time since 1965, according to the Archdiocese of Chicago. “For nearly 50 years...
View ArticleBishop Zubik celebrates anniversaries at St. Alphonsus (Diocese of Pittsburgh)
(Source: Diocese of Pittsburgh) Posted: Fri., July 24, 2015 On July 19, the same date of the first dedication of St. Alphonsus Church in 1840, parishioners gathered to celebrate, commemorate and...
View ArticleSuburban Catholic school scrambles to avoid shutdown
Nearly 60 years after it opened, St. Alphonsus Liguori Catholic School is at risk of closing next fall unless officials can raise $300,000 by Monday. The Archdiocese of Chicago notified the Prospect...
View ArticleCatholic school finds support, money and heart in drive to stay open: Brown
Updated: January 17, 2014 8:22PM With all the school closings in the last few years, I can’t help but root for the folks at Our Lady of Victory, the plucky Catholic elementary school in Portage Park...
View ArticleAfter decades-long exodus of students, Chicago's Catholic schools look to grow
Three Chicago-area Catholic schools are slated to close this year, the latest shutdowns in a decades-long streak of falling enrollment and multimillion-dollar deficits. But some good news comes along...
View ArticlePrayers, quips and quotes by saintly people; St. Alphonsus Liguori
The feast day of St. Alphonsus Liguori is celebrated on August 1. Alphonsus was born in 1696 near Naples, Italy. His father was a captain in the Royal Navy. At the age of 16 he received a doctorate in...
View ArticleA charter school named for a saint, but with secular aims
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View ArticleCatholic enrollment growth amid CPS turmoil
Updated: October 3, 2013 8:50PM Turmoil within Chicago Public Schools may have led to a historic growth in enrollment at area Catholic elementary schools this year for the first time since 1965,...
View ArticleCity numbers push area Catholic grade school enrollment up
Updated: October 3, 2013 10:35PM The number of kids going to Chicago area Catholic elementary schools inched up this year for the first time since 1965 — and turmoil within Chicago Public Schools may...
View ArticleSt. Alphonsus School raises more than $300,000, but future still unsure
Supporters of St. Alphonsus Liguori Catholic School in Prospect Heights raised more than $300,000 in just a few days, but the Chicago Roman Catholic Archdiocese said Monday that it still has not...
View ArticleSt. Alphonsus Liguori Catholic School might get year reprieve
Supporters' efforts to save St. Alphonsus Liguori Catholic School in Prospect Heights might have paid off. The Chicago Roman Catholic Archdiocese announced Wednesday that officials are considering ways...
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