In what would be his final acts as pope, Pope Francis gave the traditional Easter blessing from a balcony at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on Easter Sunday and greeted the crowd of 50,000 assembled one last time in the popemobile.
According to the National Catholic Educational Association, enrollment in Catholic schools has rebounded during the 2021-2022 school year, reaching record levels in some dioceses. Enrollment increased from 1.63 million to 1.69 million, a 3.5% jump.
Early the morning of Sunday July 3, vandals targeted Holy Family Catholic Church in Hillsborough, N.C., with anti-Christian and pro-abortion messages in bright yellow spray paint. Those arriving for the morning services had to walk past a large message of “F*CK THE CHURCH,” which was painted directly in between the two main entrances. In the...
Religion and faith have played an important part in the United States going all the way back to our founding fathers. Denied religious freedom in England, they sought to protect their liberty with the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. President Dwight Eisenhower prompted Congress to add the words “under God” to the Pledge of...
North Carolina continues to see growth in homeschooling, charter schools, and private schools, a recent report from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction says. The report shows more than 80,000 additional students have chosen an educational option beyond their locally assigned district school between 2008 and 2018. Parents cite a variety of reasons to seek...
RALEIGH — City officials gave $2.3 million in rental discounts on the newly minted Raleigh Convention Center through 2023 and $167,000 in taxpayer-funded subsidies this year to attract companies and organizations, public records show.
Across the nation, the inner-city Catholic school is fast becoming a relic of the past. Will we throw these much-loved schools a lifeline? Such is the question posed by a new Thomas B. Fordham Institute report, Who Will Save America’s Urban Catholic Schools?, released to coincide with Pope Benedict’s visit to the U.S. this week.
RALEIGH — Ten years after North Carolina’s first charter schools opened their doors the innovative schools of choice are still struggling for acceptance and understanding in the halls of power. Frustrated charter school supporters report little progress this year on their key legislative initiatives, while opponents continue to snipe from the sidelines.
RALEIGH — Running parallel to the public school system in the Triangle is a group of Roman Catholic parochial schools, virtually all run by the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh. The education offered to the largely, but not exclusively Catholic student body, about 20 percent of which is non-Catholic, may serve as an alternative model of education. The Diocese of Raleigh takes in counties in central and eastern North Carolina, including the Triangle. Most of the Roman Catholic schools in the Triangle provide education for students from kindergarten through the eighth-grade.
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