During an Oct. 26, 2021 Mass celebrated by Cardinal Wilton Gregory for St. Anthony Catholic School in Washington, D.C., the recipient of the Consortium of Catholic Academies’ 2021 Ms. Paula Scholarship was announced. The scholarship honors Paula Nowakowski, a longtime chief of staff and aide to former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). She died in 2010. The 2021 Ms. Paula Scholar was announced as St. Anthony’s seventh grader Kiara Brown.
Sacred Heart School in Washington, with its bilingual classes and student body coming from different countries throughout the world, is an example of the unity...
For Catholic Schools Week, principals, teachers and parents wrote reflections about what it means to serve students and families during this time of pandemic..
Maybe Elise Heil, the principal of Sacred Heart School in Washington, D.C., always was destined to be an educator. Her mom, Donna Heil, noted, “As a child, she’d line up her stuffed animals in the hallway and teach them. She was always going to be a teacher.”
The Consortium of Catholic Academies – a coalition of four center-city Catholic elementary schools in the District of Columbia – has done “an incredible job” of continuing to educate students despite the hardships brought on by pandemic and quarantine, according to the president of the consortium.
In a time-honored tradition, the 22 second graders in Raquel Fuentes’ class at Sacred Heart School in Washington prepared for their upcoming First Holy Communion, but with a special guest on Jan. 19, when they were joined by Cardinal Wilton Gregory in a Zoom meeting.