Dayton, OH — The Council for American Private Education (CAPE) announced today that Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School (CJ) is Ohio’s only private school to receive the 2025 CAPE Blue Ribbon School Award, formally the 2025 National Blue Ribbon School Award, having met the U.S. Department of Education’s criteria for …

By Amira Abuzeid Houston, Texas, Oct 4, 2025 / 06:00 am After years of boys (and their parents) repeatedly ignoring the rules, a private boys school in Houston is taking a novel approach to its smartphone and digital device policy: Bring it to school, and “we will destroy it.” Western Academy, …

By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Sep 30, 2025 / 12:56 pm A West Virginia circuit court judge has tossed out a lawsuit aiming to block a state government agency from providing a $5 million grant to an Ohio Catholic trade school. Judge Richard Lindsay said in the Sept. 25 ruling that the seven-figure …

By Courtney Mares Rome Newsroom, Sep 4, 2025 / 13:57 pm Before he was known as a soon-to-be-saint, Carlo Acutis was simply a boy in a school uniform, lugging his backpack through the hallways of the Tommaseo Institute in Milan. His teachers remember him as joyful, a bit of a prankster, …

By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 3, 2025 / 17:46 pm The shooter who killed two children and injured 21 others at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis blamed “gender and weed” for his mental health issues and discussed how his struggles with gender dysphoria contributed to his desire to commit the attack. …

By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 29, 2025 / 08:00 am The shooter who killed two children and injured 17 others at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on Aug. 27 voiced some regret over his ‘gender transition’ efforts when he was a minor, according to handwritten notes he displayed in a YouTube …

By Jonathan Liedl National Catholic Register, Aug 28, 2025 / 06:00 am After a pair of out-of-state school shootings in 2022 and 2023 shocked the nation, Minnesota’s bishops implored state lawmakers to provide security funding for local nonpublic schools. Now, two years after their appeals went unheeded, tragedy has struck one …

By Zoe Romanowsky CNA Staff, Aug 27, 2025 / 16:18 pm Two children were killed and multiple victims injured in a shooting during an opening school year Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday. In times of tragedy, the Church turns to prayer. The Catholic Church believes that prayer can effect …

By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Aug 27, 2025 / 10:41 am Authorities and media reports on Wednesday morning said a mass shooting had taken place at a Catholic parish and school in downtown Minneapolis, one that police were reportedly treating as a “mass casualty” incident. The local crime watch outlet Minnesota …

By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Aug 27, 2025 / 15:10 pm After a shooter killed two children and injured 17 other people on Wednesday morning during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, the community is reeling as leaders call for prayer. The shooter opened fire from the parking lot through the …