A handful of students at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Academy have earned the title of published author, with the help of their fourth grade teacher.
Author: Alicia Venter
Young Catholic Queens Scholar Achieves Scouting’s ‘Supernova’ STEM Award
Diana Olewnicki’s son has always loved to tinker. Whether it is his toy or the TV remote, 8-year-old Julian has been able to take things apart, piece by piece, and put them back together.
Brooklyn School for the Deaf Has Playground Designed for Students’ Needs
Since she took over as executive director of St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf, Jodi Falk has had a vision. When she peered through the back doors into the area used for recess and looked at the equipment in place for play, she knew that the school could do more.
Venerating Relics Brings a Saint ‘to Life’ for Brooklyn Catholic Academy Students
Every Wednesday for the past year, Paige Winters has spent her morning at St. Ephrem Church. The parish academy student is joined by her classmates for a student Mass weekly, so by the end of her eighth grade year she was very familiar with the church and its pews.
Statues and Doors of a Bensonhurst Catholic Church Badly Damaged in a Vandal’s Attack
Clergy and parishioners at St. Dominic Church were in shock after two statues were defaced and its glass front doors shattered in a vandal’s attack Monday afternoon, June 10, authorities and church officials said.
Queens Catholic Academy Students Are Surrounded By Images of the Sainthood-Bound Teen
Hunter Hodes is just like any other fifth grade student, collecting baseball cards and playing video games like Roblox, similar to many of his classmates at St. Joseph Catholic Academy.
Catholic Queens Man’s Prayers Are Answered: A Lifesaving Kidney Donor Is Found
On Friday, May 23, Petar Vukelich did something he had never done before. He put a new set of rosary beads, a gift from his mother’s friend, around his neck. He kissed the cross, asked God to protect him, and just two hours later, he said, he received a call, giving him the news he had been waiting months for.
A Win for Safety: Queens Catholic School Students Get Speed Bump Installed
Tatiana Lamadrid is always a little careful when it comes time to be picked up after school. For years, the eighth grade student at St. Adalbert Catholic Academy had to be, especially after she was nearly hurt when getting into her dad’s car.
Once a Soldier for the Army, Priest Is Now a Soldier for the Lord
As Father David Santos peacefully leads the faithful in Springfield, New Jersey, he may not come off like a military man. But the pastor at St. James the Apostle Church has seen the brutality of war first hand, having faced death in Iraq during the height of war.
A Couple Spreads The Faith That Sustains Their Love Into Classrooms
When Andrea Pinnavaia joined her church choir in high school, she had no idea she would be singing alongside her future husband. But it was a possibility; they lived just about 15 blocks away from each other, and their families were parishioners at Good Shepherd Church in Sheepshead Bay. Undoubtedly, at one point or another, their parents had sat next to one another in the pews.