As an effort to make her a saint inches forward, a Mill Basin teenager who died of bone cancer in 2018 and who inspired many others with her faith and courage was memorialized in a street co-naming ceremony near her church on Thursday, June 15.
Bishop Kearney High School
Only in Print: Former Bishop Kearney Blessed Mother Statue Finally Gets New Home
Bishop Kearney High School’s larger-than-life Blessed Mother statue has found a new home, just a block away at St. Athanasius Catholic Academy. It used to be a welcoming, iconic figure on the high school’s exterior, located on the corner of 60th Street and Bay Parkway.
Bishop Kearney High School Class of 2020 Blessed at St. Athanasius Church
Members of Bishop Kearney’s Class of 2020 reunited at St. Athanasius-St. Dominic Church for a special Mass on August 16. The students — who weren’t able to graduate from the all-girls Catholic high school due to its closure in August 2019 — completed their first three years at Bishop Kearney and transferred to other local high schools this past year to complete their senior year.
Bishop Kearney Memories Engrained in Hoops Star
Former Bishop Kearney basketball star Janelle McManus weighs in on the news that the school has closed.
Bishop Kearney HS Closing
Dear Editor: They will never take our strength of excelling or our faith distributed within the educational system (“Bishop Kearney High School Announces Permanent Closure,”May 19). We are 1.2 billion strong and expanding. Good luck to all.
Bishop Kearney High School Announces Permanent Closure
Bishop Kearney H.S., an all-girls high school in Bensonhurst that was founded in 1961, is shutting its doors this summer.
Around The School Bell: International Women’s Day
Bishop Kearney H.S., Bensonhurst, celebrated International Women’s Day March 8 by honoring the women in our lives today and the women who have paved the way for us along the way.
Let Them Speak: What Freedom of Speech Means To Me
Freedom of speech is the right that we, as citizens of the United States, are entitled to. This right, included in the First Amendment to the Constitution, states that the government may not punish people or organizations based on what they say or write.
High School Supplement 2018
Eighth-grade students in New York City are just two weeks away from taking the Test for Admission into Catholic High Schools (TACHS) and choosing the high schools they wish to attend next year.
Remembering Kaitlyn at Kearney
With bright yellow T-shirts symbolizing the light of the life of their classmate Kaitlyn Bernhardt, who passed away in 2018 after a courageous two-year battle with bone cancer, students from the Bensonhurst high school held a variety of school events honoring their Kearney sister.
