CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Celebrating the strengths of local Catholic Schools
Catholic schools across the Albany Diocese are gearing up for the annual celebration of Catholic education, with this year’s National Catholic Schools Week, which takes place Sunday Jan. 27 to Feb. 2.
Mater Christi program gives students perspective on priesthood
A seventh-grader at Mater Christi School in Albany, Annabelle looks forward to when she can write to her “adopted” class pen-pal: Kyle Gorenski, a seminarian studying at Our Lady of Providence Seminary in Rhode Island.
TEEN TESTIMONY
When school is a pathway to discipleship
As I prepare to move away for college and life in the larger world around me, I am thankful for the opportunity to have attended Catholic school all these years.
TEEN TESTIMONY
Brothers reflect on traditions that spread faith
For us and our family, the Advent and Christmas season is a time of traditions. The liturgical Church year begins with the season of Advent, a season of symbolically waiting and preparing for the Messiah to come. Although this season is more about anticipation than celebration, our traditions help make …
TEEN TESTIMONY
Advent traditions at school, home
The Catholic Church has designated the four weeks preceding Christmas as Advent, a time to prepare for the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
BILL SIGNED
Cuomo restores aid to schools
After vetoing similar legislation last year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill that restores a standard for calculating state reimbursement of administrative mandates placed on Catholic and other religious and independent schools.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Education consultants begin assessing diocesan high schools
The Albany diocesan Catholic Schools Office has released the following announcement.
STEP IN FOR SCARES
ST. MARY'S SCHOOL IN WATERFORD invited guests to a Halloween haunted house for some spooky fun last weekend.
SURPRISE
Miracle at a school assembly
On Oct. 26, Miracle Carter got the surprise of her life when she learned that her wish to go to Walt Disney World in Florida was being granted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Northeast New York.
ST. KATERI, SCHENECTADY
Teen gets Girl Scout Gold by protecting pollinators
Caroline McGraw has gone for gold. The 17-year-old parishioner of St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church in Schenectady has been named a National Gold Award Girl Scout.
HOOSICK FALLS AND SCHENECTADY
Catholic schools launched founders of medical startup
Long before Dr. Zach Helft and Dr. Christy Sheehy co-founded a medical startup, both were students at Catholic schools in the Albany Diocese.
DIOCESAN HIGH SCHOOLS START YEAR WITH MASS
DIOCESAN HIGH SCHOOLS got the academic year off to a good start last week with a special Mass, celebrated at Saratoga Central Catholic High School.
PARTNERSHIP
ND-BG, Siena sign admission agreement
Siena College in Loudonville and Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School in Schenectady have officially signed into effect an early assurance and college planning partnership. The program will assure admission to Siena for identified ND-BG students .
ILLUMINATED WORK
Siena exhibits handwritten Bible
Siena College in Loudonville is working to ignite the faith of students, faculty and others in the Albany Diocese with an exhibit of the St. John’s Bible, the first handwritten and illustrated Bible of its scale created since the invention of the printing press in the 15th century.
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Higher-Powered Learning grants announced
The Catholic Schools Office of the Albany Diocese has announced the winners of its annual Higher-Powered Learning grants. Funding totaling $100,000 will be distributed among the following school projects.
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