For students at Ursuline Academy of Dallas, living their faith extends beyond the classroom and is reflected in service to others.
Schools
Butterflies took flight Sept. 23 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School as students, faculty, and staff gathered for the school’s annual tribute to Preston James, a former Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas student who spent his senior year serving at OLPH.
The annual Diocese of Dallas Bishop’s Invitational Golf Tournament raised more than $735,000 for tuition assistance at Catholic schools across the diocese, pushing the tournament’s 16-year fundraising total above $10 million.
For more than two decades, Marta Muñoz has taught Spanish to hundreds of students at Holy Trinity Catholic School, convinced that learning a second language gives them “an opportunity to go farther.”
By Amy WhiteThe Texas Catholic On the wall of a large, newly renovated classroom at St. Monica Catholic School, a…
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As a cluster of Mary Immaculate Catholic School students huddled together in Times Square this March to gaze at their school’s logo shining bright and blue across the Nasdaq billboard, the moment was instantly unforgettable, a true once-in-a-lifetime experience — or so it seemed at the time.
St. Philip & St. Augustine Catholic Academy broke ground Aug. 27 on a new kitchen and cafeteria, a project supported by gifts and grants as the Dallas school prepares for continued growth.
A few days into a six-day backpacking trip through Wyoming’s mountain terrain, Father Raphael Schaner, O. Cist., noticed something unusual … silence.
Between the four of them, longtime friends Scarlett Schwegmann, Georgia Slovacek, Sarah Keyes, and Abigail Bussey have played soccer, basketball, cross country, track and field, golf, cheerleading, and volleyball; and whether stepping onto the court or the course or the field or the track, each knows the thrill of donning a team uniform, lacing on a pair of shoes, and beginning a beloved sport.
The trees were shorter, the surrounding city sparser, and the student population smaller when Gregory Roper began his undergraduate education at the University of Dallas more than four decades ago. As he now undertakes the responsibility of leading the university’s undergraduate school as the new dean of the Constantin College of Liberal Arts, much about his alma mater’s campus is different than it once was — but the mission at the heart of the school, he said, remains the same.