Catholic Standard - Catholic Standard

2020 Catholic Schools Week

In January 2020, Catholic Schools across the Archdiocese of Washington are celebrating Catholic Schools Week, highlighting their Catholic identity and academic excellence, through Masses and prayer services, outreach to those in need, and through special events and fun activities.

In this series

Archbishop Gregory blesses construction site of Stone Ridge's future Student Life Center

In the midst of construction for the new Student Life Center on the campus of Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Maryland, Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory...

New library at St. Thomas More Catholic Academy seen as opening a ‘new world of possibilities’

On the day of the ribbon cutting for the new St. Jerome Library at St. Thomas More Catholic Academy in Washington, D.C., the banner outside the door showed an open book, with a...

St. Francis International School celebrates 10th Catholic Schools Week

In celebration of Catholic Schools Week, St. Francis International School honored the individuals who helped establish the school one decade ago at a Mass with Washington...

Visiting Mother Catherine Academy, archbishop encourages student to follow saint's example

Archbishop Wilton Gregory celebrated a Jan. 28 Catholic Schools Week Mass at Mother Catherine Academy in Mechanicsville, Maryland, and urged the students there to be like St....

Students at St. Mary's School in Bryantown begin Catholic Schools Week by serving others

For St. Mary’s School in Bryantown, Maryland, Catholic Schools Week isn’t just about celebrating the gift of a Catholic education. It’s also about serving...

Archbishop opens Catholic Schools Week with Mass at St. Andrew Apostle

To begin Catholic Schools Week 2020, Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory celebrated Mass Jan. 26 at St. Andrew Apostle Parish, Silver Spring, encouraging parishioners and school...

St. Mary's County celebrates unity of Catholic schools in prelude to Catholic Schools Week

In a prelude celebration of Catholic Schools Week with Catholic schools in St. Mary’s County, Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory shared sentiments of gratitude for the vibrant...

For St. Thomas More principal, college and heaven are goals for his young scholars

One morning this past September, Gerald Smith Jr., the principal at St. Thomas More Catholic Academy in Washington, D.C., added some more brightly colored college pennants on a...

Editor's notebook: A Catholic school worth celebrating, and saving

Students, teachers and parents at St. Bartholomew School in Bethesda, Maryland, had an ice cream party in winter on Jan. 16, to put a cherry on top of a special week. Two days...

St. Mary’s School of Piscataway celebrates its history and future as archbishop blesses new Media Center there

Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory’s first visit to St. Mary’s School of Piscataway in Clinton, Maryland, for a Jan. 14 Mass and then a blessing of the school’s new Media Center...