Sister Patricia Ralph has seen a lot in her decades as a Sister of St. Joseph teaching and leading Catholic schools in Washington, D.C. On July 22, in the middle of a summer when most teachers try to get their minds off the classroom, she took her assignment as a teacher at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Academy, where she has worked since 1997, to a new level.
A new playground is an exciting milestone for an elementary school, as playgrounds hold a lot of laughter, friendship, and imagination for younger students. On Sept. 6, community members, faculty, and the students at St. Thomas More Catholic Academy in Southeast Washington, D.C., braved the city’s heat wave to join Cardinal Wilton Gregory in a blessing and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new playground there.
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.”