By Jeremy Coumbes on February 24, 2021 at 3:34pm
Routt Catholic High School is one of 12 in the state that could receive as much as $15,000 in scholarships from a matching donor.
The Diocese of Springfield announced today, a generous Catholic couple from Chicago is committing to match dollar for dollar what is donated to 12 schools in the diocese, up to $15,000 per school.
According to the announcement student demand for Illinois’ tax credit scholarships is at an all-time high. This school year, 481 students in 30 schools across the Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Illinois received a scholarship to attend Catholic school thanks to about $1.4 million in donations.
Catholic Schools and Transgender Students 02/19/2021 at 8:43 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
By Gerard V. Bradley, Public Discourse, February 9, 2021
The lastingness of each person’s reality as male or female is so integral to the faith’s architecture, that to deny it even to equivocate about it is to undermine Catholic faith itself. No Catholic institution should risk that effect.
When a rising third-grade girl at the School of the Incarnation in the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore announced last Summer that she was a “transgender boy,” the school could have said to her that it is not so that no boy is trapped in a girl’s body, or vice versa. The truth is that each of us
After 50 years as a state representative, Chicago Democrat Mike Madigan is resigning from the Illinois House of Representatives immediately.
Madigan served as speaker for over 30 years the longest run of any legislative leader in American history. A controversial politician, Madigan got his start in Chicago politics at a young age. Republicans blamed him for the state’s problems in campaigns, especially in the last decade that saw Madigan oversee two large income tax increases on Illinois taxpayers.
A master at politics, Madigan became wrapped up in multiple scandals in recent years. Close associates were accused of sexual harassment. Last year, he was implicated in a corruption scandal at Commonwealth Edison, which lead to many Democrats dropping their support for his leadership.
After 50 years as a state representative, Chicago Democrat Mike Madigan is resigning from the Illinois House of Representatives at the end of the month.
DETROIT (CNS) Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron reflected on these words of St. Paul s Second Letter to the Corinthians, which are meant not just for a specific people at a specific time, but are intended for the faithful here and today. Ash Wednesday is a time of salvation, even amid a pandemic that has caused much suffering and economic strife, he told the congregation gathered at St. Aloysius Church Feb. 17,