The new San Damiano College for the Trades in Springfield, Illinois, expected to open in fall of 2025, is aimed at integrating Catholic liberal arts education with practical training in a trade. Kent J. Lasnoski, formerly an associate professor of theology at Wyoming Catholic College, is working with Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield on founding the school.
Bishop Donald Kettler is scheduled to preside at Mass and bless the new building in Perham Sept. 4.
Deacon John Wocken’s class recently finished this year’s classroom quilt, his last before he retires at the end of this school year. The quilts he has made over the years with his students will be auctioned to raise funds for student scholarships.
Mark Vande Hei, a NASA International Space Station astronaut, takes live questions from students at Seattle Nativity School in Washington state.
David Fremo begins as director of Catholic Education Ministries as Linda Kaiser retires after 26 years in the position.
Two Catholic high schools in the Indianapolis Archdiocese took different actions in late June over employees who are in same-sex marriages.
Maria Pollia, a theology teacher at Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles, did not have to rack her brain to remember her former student Meghan Markle, the actress recently engaged to Prince Harry.
When the news broke Nov. 27 of Meghan Markle’s engagement to Prince Harry, reporters descended upon the Los Angeles Catholic school Markle attended: Immaculate Heart High School and Middle School.
