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Catholic Schools Week 2022

For Catholic Schools Week 2022 which runs from Jan. 30 to Feb. 5, articles on the Catholic Standard website highlight Catholic schools in The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. In this photo, David Warmington, a senior in Archbishop Carroll High School’s Engineering Pathway curriculum, works on a project. That program is featured in the Catholic Schools Week series. (Photo courtesy of Archbishop Carroll High School)

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Despite challenges of pandemic, Catholic schools continue ‘academic excellence and faith formation we are known for’

Midway through the second school year since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, officials in the Catholic Schools Office say they are proud of how the school communities of The...

St. John Bosco showed that all are called to be saints, Cardinal Gregory tells Cristo Rey students

Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory’s Jan. 31 Mass for Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School marked two special events – the beginning of 2022 Catholic Schools Week and the feast day...

On a new stage, Leonor Ponzio serves as principal at her alma mater, Georgetown Visitation

The theater program at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington drew Leonor Limarzi Ponzio to the school, after she watched her older brothers who were Gonzaga...

Seton’s new president Dr. Lisa Grillo says she ‘learned to be a leader’ as a student there

Dr. Lisa Grillo, a 1989 graduate of Elizabeth Seton High School in Bladensburg, Maryland, has returned to her alma mater to serve as president of the all-girls school sponsored by...

Catholic Schools Week being celebrated Jan. 30 through Feb. 5

Catholic Schools Week will be celebrated this year from Jan. 30 to Feb. 5, 2022. Traditionally, schools celebrate Catholic education with a week of Masses, open houses, assemblies...

Gonzaga’s new president comes home to lead his alma mater during its bicentennial, and a pandemic

When Jesuit Father Joseph Lingan became the new president of Gonzaga College High School in Washington in the summer of 2021, he moved his office to the main building on campus,...

Cardinal encourages Carroll students to remember the people and schools who helped them succeed

Celebrating a Jan. 27 Mass at Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C., Cardinal Wilton Gregory urged students to appreciate the education they have received at the...

Innovative engineering program at Carroll High School offers students ‘the best chance at whatever is next in life for them’

For more than five years, Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C. has offered an innovative STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Engineering Pathway...