As the student population changed, we had more lay teachers in the classrooms. And in 1972, Cathedral School closed due to gradual loss of nuns and because of higher operating costs.

Although classrooms may be empty for now, there are still people in the community working hard to make sure students have what they need.

Master common classroom commands in English! This guide provides essential phrases for teachers to manage the class and for students to understand instructions, improving communication and learning.

Catholic school taught Jim Scafuri as much about how to take a beating from a nun as math or reading, so when he started at the public Morningside Elementary School in the 1960s, it came as a ...

Chicago is a city that has been indelibly marked by tragic fires. The Great Chicago Fire took an estimated 300 lives in 1871. The Iroquois Theater fire took 602 more in 1903. And in 1958, a tragic ...

Singing Nuns and Green Tambourines Edition. The 1960s will always be associated with counterculture and the Summer of Love, but the decade’s pop charts were full of novelty, schlock, and bubblegum.

Corita Kent made waves as the ‘Pop-Art nun’ in the ’60s. A new center honors her legacy The Corita Art Center is dedicated to Corita Kent, an artist and advocate for progressive causes often ...

Corita Kent used her bold silkscreens to advocate for social change during the '60s. A new center in downtown L.A. honors her work while in the city and beyond.

‘Down Longfield’, is a vivid and nostalgic account of growing up near Forkhill village in the turbulent 1950’s and 60s and shares the resilience of a community living under curfew on a patrolled ...

In a bizarre precedent to today’s debates over faith in the classroom, a local ISD absorbed a parochial school and its nuns for twelve years. It went about as you’d expect.

He pointed out the intriguing timeline gap: the first Conjuring flick occurred in the late ’60s, while The Nun 2 flipped back to 1956 France. This time jump creates fertile ground for The Nun 3 ...

From cattle dowry to classroom — how an Irish nun is changing the lives of women in South Sudan. Sr Orla Treacy, from Bray, Co Wicklow, is the director of Loreto Rumbek in South Sudan.