In this article for Catholic Schools Week (January 29-February 2, 2019), we learn of a Maryland high school which has come up with a program designed to support students with intellectual disabilities in an inclusive setting.
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Sankowski is on the staff of the Catholic Standard, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Washington.
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Head of Georgetown Prep urges renewed commitment to being ‘men for others’
The letter comes in the wake of an allegation of sexual misconduct raised against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a 1983 graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Maryland, who has been nominated to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Catholics gather at U.S. Capitol to pray lawmakers will protect the Dreamers
A group of priests, religious, young immigrants and their supporters gathered outside of the U.S. Capitol to pray for the Dreamers, whose lives are in limbo, and for the legislators who have the power to change their situation.
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Mother of three Dreamers holds fast on Hill for passage of DREAM Act
Alvarez, a parishioner of Incarnation Sagrado Corazon in Minneapolis, traveled to Washington with a group of leaders from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to speak with congressional leaders, then stayed behind to carry out the fast.
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Protecting Middle East Christians is in best interest of U.S., panelists say
“If ever there was a time to collectively support the largest remaining Christian population in the Middle East, it is now.”
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Archbishop Gomez at D.C.’s Red Mass: America needs “new sense of our common humanity”
Celebrated the Sunday before the opening of the Supreme Court’s term, the annual Mass invokes the Holy Spirit upon those who are responsible for the administration of justice.