Students at St. Athanasius Catholic Academy were welcomed with a big surprise on their first day of school, Wednesday, Sept. 6.

Students at St. Athanasius Catholic Academy were welcomed with a big surprise on their first day of school, Wednesday, Sept. 6.
Noelle Pianoforte, a sixth-grader at St. Athanasius Catholic Academy, won the the Tablet’s Covid Relief Fundraiser for Catholic Schools competition in 2021 for selling the most subscriptions to The Tablet than any other student in the diocese — 48 — and she’s trying to help her younger sister Natalie, a third-grader, take top honors this year.
You’ll never complain about a long walk again after hearing the story of 11-year-old Theodore Gaynullin and his mother, who traveled 15 miles — on foot — to the Polish border to flee war-torn Ukraine.