COLORADO SPRINGS. With the end of each school year comes excitement and bittersweet goodbyes, and the end of the 2021-2022 school is no exception. For St. Mary’s High School, the end of this year brings some new courses for students to look forward to next year, as well the retirement of some longstanding faculty members.

The part of our mission statement that reads “challenging students through faith, academics, and service” is one that we don’t take lightly. It is the core of what it means to be a Divine Redeemer Cardinal. 

COLORADO SPRINGS. Hard work pays off. For seven St. Mary’s seniors, who moved forward in major college scholarship programs, hard work and persistence throughout their high school careers prepared them for the application process.

COLORADO SPRINGS. On April 23, the St. Mary’s High School community is going to “Rock the House” at The Antlers hotel during the school’s annual gala, which returns to an in-person event this year. Cocktails begin at 6 p.m., with dinner and the live auction starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased on the St. Mary’s website at smpirates.org/page/gala.

COLORADO SPRINGS. School is more than just learning mathematics and phonics; it’s helping children build the foundation of who they will become. The Unified Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Colorado Springs partner with parents on this journey helping form the whole child — mind, body and spirit. All of the Unified Schools are currently enrolling for the 2022-2023 school year, each providing a unique educational experience for their families.

COLORADO SPRINGS. Re-enrollment for St. Mary’s High School’s 2022-2023 school year is open and the priority application and tuition assistance deadline has been extended through Feb. 15. With its 135-plus year history rooted in Catholic tradition and its renewed focus on 21st century learning, St. Mary’s is uniquely qualified to educate the next generation of Catholic leaders.

Christopher Check tells stories — more to the point, stories about stories. In his keynote address at the March 19 Our Lady’s Dowry Gala at the Pinery at the Hill to support Chesterton Academy of Our Lady of Walsingham, Colorado Springs’ first classical Catholic high school, Check will argue that storytelling serves a purpose far more profound and formative than mere entertainment. Stories, says the president of Catholic Answers, are key to making the “human person.”

COLORADO SPRINGS. When Michelle (Polliard) Quaney last walked the halls of Corpus Christi Catholic School as a student in 1976, the United States was celebrating its bicentennial and “Silly Love Songs” by Wings filled the airways. Yet when she returned to the Colorado Springs campus as a teacher six years ago, the feeling invoked by the building was the same.