Then as a student at St. Pius X High School in Festus, Missouri, I was an editor on the school newspaper, which inspired me to go on to earn a journalism degree at the University of Missouri. Four years of Latin classes at St. Pius solidified my knowledge of sentence structure and the roots of words, and participating in the debate team taught me to think — and write — logically, to weave my ideas together and prove my point, and to have a good opening and close to my arguments, an approach I try to take with the articles that I write.
And my Teens Encounter Christ retreat there solidified my Catholic faith as being an essential part of who I am. Later after I moved to Maryland, began working for the Catholic Standard newspaper and got married, my wife Carol and I sent our son Joe and our daughter Anna to Mary of Nazareth School in Darnestown, Maryland, a joyful place for them to gain a foundation in their faith and academics, with a wonderful community of families.
They both then attended Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney, Maryland, where Joe won an award at graduation for his writing, and he went on to earn a journalism degree at the University of Maryland and now works as a science writer for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Anna continued her Catholic education at St.
In her speech, she addressed the dreams that immigrants share for a better life, which Catholic schools have helped make possible for generations of immigrant families from all over the world, and continue to do today. Don Bosco Cristo Rey, a coeducational high school sponsored by The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington and the Salesians of Don Bosco, offers a rigorous academic curriculum for minority students from families with limited economic means, and it is part of the national Cristo Rey Network of 39 schools.
The school is known for its Corporate Work Study Program where students gain experience working at leading Washington-area businesses, organizations and institutions and help pay for nearly one-half of their education costs.
