Faced with declining enrollment, officials with the Oakland Catholic Diocese have decided to close St. Barnabas Elementary School at the end of this school year and shift its students to the other ...

It’s mid-morning at St. Barnabas High School, and principal Sister Joan Faraone is making her way through a sea of uniformed young women surging through halls painted green and gold, the school ...

She says many of the nuns who originally came from Ireland to teach in the St. Barnabas School are still part of the parish and there are some “original” members of the church that ...