education

Promoting a uniquely Catholic culture in our schools is both a necessary task and a challenging one. In rising to this challenge, it is helpful to examine what variables make cultural identity survive and thrive.

The Minnesota Catholic Home Education Conference and Curriculum Fair, at St. Paul College in St. Paul on May 30 and 31, provides opportunities for families seeking to grow in both faith and educational excellence through practical insight, Catholic wisdom and heartfelt encouragement.

It’s that time of year, again, when the waking air has a chill crispness to it, and the hallways are lined with bookbags full of fresh spiral notebooks, binders still blank of the doodles of midwinter boredom and the good old marble-covered notebooks, as yet unsullied.

Cathedral Middle School adopted the house system as a model for creating positive student behaviors. It helps students create close connections in a large school body and has been used in Europe for decades.

Members of the close-knit community of Sacred Hearts School in Lahaina are coming together, in faith, in the wake of the firestorm on Maui.

The event opens from 4 to 8:30 p.m. Friday with a curriculum fair and used book sale.

The Diocese of Alleppey has more than two dozen small Christian communities, and leaders of those communities trained about 70 members of the diocesan synod team.

Pope Francis created the office dedicated to safeguarding minors and vulnerable people earlier this year when he overhauled the Vicariate of Rome.