By Tina Dennelly CNA Staff, Apr 22, 2024 / 15:30 pm Throughout her freshman and sophomore years at Columbine High School, Jenica Thornby went to the library every single day. “Not one day went by that I did not go to the library,” Thornby recently told “EWTN News In Depth” reporter …

August begins the annual ritual of children dragging their parents to the shopping mall for new clothes, backpacks and sneakers, in preparation for their return to classrooms, playgrounds and athletics fields. The nervous anticipation of going “back to school” is as common to the American experience of growing up as …

by Tina Dennelly CNA Newsroom, Feb 15, 2023 / 12:31 pm Michigan Catholics sought solace and support one day after three students were killed in a shooting on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. A Mass was offered Tuesday night at St. John Church and Student …

by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Dec 4, 2022 / 13:23 pm A Catholic campus ministry center at the University of Nebraska received a death threat Saturday morning in a note signed, “Jane’s Revenge,” a calling card used by pro-abortion activists. “If our right to abortion in Bellevue is taken away …

By Jonah McKeown Denver, Colo., Dec 30, 2019 / 07:01 am (CNA).- Many years before she entered religious life, Sister Mary Gianna Thornby was an ordinary high school sophomore at Columbine High School in the suburbs of Denver. Like many high schoolers, she occasionally struggled with her identity, had experienced …