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St. Jane Frances de Chantal principal Ashley Giron was excited to welcome back students to improved classrooms with help from the Shea and Smet foundations. The classrooms feature new equipment, paint, and floors, something she said allows students to focus more on academics. (Victor Alemán)

An LA Catholic school’s unlikely success story

Steve Lowery|Jan 10, 2022|7 Min Read

Sixth-grader Mario Ramirez (center) of St. Elizabeth of Hungary School in Altadena is back in the classroom after surviving several gunshot wounds from a shooting outside his home last February. At left is Ramirez's friend Dallas McGowan. (Victor Alemán)

After a harrowing shooting, Altadena sixth-grader counts Christmas blessings

Steve Lowery|Dec 15, 2021|6 Min Read

A health care worker at Acres Home Multi-Service Center in Houston prepares doses of the coronavirus disease vaccine Oct. 13, 2021. (CNS photo/Callaghan O'Hare, Reuters)

LA Catholic schools not requiring student COVID-19 vaccinations

Angelus Staff|Nov 9, 2021|1 Min Read

A Catholic Charities staff member shows St. Frances Cabrini second-graders how to properly remove and repot plants from the garden. (Adrian Flores)

Catholic school kids harvest hope in a South LA ‘food desert’

Dana Bartholomew|Nov 9, 2021|5 Min Read

Msgr. Aidan Carroll stands next to blueprints for the new performing arts center at Bishop Amat High School, a project he has spearheaded for more than a decade. The building is set to open this fall. (Victor Alemán)

The LA priest who became Bishop Amat's ‘living endowment’

Steve Lowery|Aug 9, 2021|7 Min Read

William H. Hannon Foundation Board Members with Loyola Law School William H. Hannon Scholars and Loyola Law School Dean Michael Waterstone in 2019. (William H. Hannon Foundation)

Hannon Foundation grants benefit Catholic schools, nonprofits

Angelus Staff|Jul 21, 2021|2 Min Read

St. Raymond principal Claudia Rodarte and parish pastor Fr. John Higgins present the school's Academic Excellence medal to a graduating 8th grader in June 2021. (Courtesy photo)

Unfazed by COVID, Downey school helps grads navigate their big decision

Steve Lowery|Jun 22, 2021|3 Min Read

St. Bernard kindergartners in the classroom on March 3, 2021 their first day of in-person learning after the pandemic. (David Amador Rivera)

Donor gives $50 million in tuition aid for LA Catholic school students

Angelus Staff|Jun 17, 2021|2 Min Read

Graduates at St. John Bosco High School (JohnMichael Filippone)

LA’s class of 2021 reflects on beating a senior year of pandemic

Tom Hoffarth|Jun 11, 2021|14 Min Read

The Marroquin family at Jeaneth's graduation from Bishop Conaty-Our Lady of Loretto High School May 28. Jeaneth, fourth from left, holds a picture of her grandmother, Maria Fulgencia, who died of COVID-19 last fall. (JohnMichael Fillipone)

Bishop Conaty grad’s COVID comeback marked by heartbreak and hope

Steve Lowery|Jun 10, 2021|5 Min Read

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The right to choose, education edition

Robert Brennan|May 7, 2021|4 Min Read

Catholic school students in Long Beach line up on distance markers at school in October 2020. (David Amador Rivera)

LA Catholic schools take ‘regional approach’ in COVID consolidations

Pablo Kay|Apr 12, 2021|5 Min Read

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