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“My parents named me Flannery O’Connor . . . 

knowing of the author, but probably not knowing that my life would be centered around Catholic education.”

Do you have what it takes to be a saint?

At All Saints Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Principal Michael Debri is heading up a vital mission to make sure his students do.

“How do you make rainbows?”

Dr. Anna Arias asked her students this question, and then she stepped back.

“Watching them play with the prisms, figure it out, think it through–it’s a delight to see them do that. I enjoy helping students figure out how to learn and figure out the science themselves,” she says.

The Most Rev. Gerald F. Kicanas, bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Tucson and chair of the board of directors of the National Catholic Educational Association, will serve as the keynote speaker at the 2018 Commencement Ceremony of the University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) on Saturday (July 14).

When Jeanne von Feldt went to promote All Saints Catholic School after Mass at a local parish, she witnessed excited reactions from Latino families when they saw her t-shirt. It read “Yo [amo] las escuelas Católicas”—“I love Catholic schools”—a message of appreciation for Latino culture that von Feldt, principal of All Saints in Davenport, Iowa, and hundreds of other Catholic school leaders working with ACE’s Latino Enrollment Institute, are trying to share with families nationwide.