Ending off Spirit Week: Home Edition, students, teachers and faculty participated in the purple and white theme. Director of Athletics Kate Pilgreen joined in on theology teacher Polly Holmes' faith-filled...
Before COVID-19 took over the world, My morning routine consisted of this: wake up around 8:00 a.m., put in my contacts, brush my teeth, get dressed and then begin my nearly 30-minute drive to school....
Ask a gun to kill someone. It will not because it is a gun. Ask a person planning to commit a mass murder to choose a weapon, however, and they will almost certainly choose a gun. Though it is true that...
If there's anything that I learned from my three-ish weeks of going vegan, it’s that a diet is a mindset. And my mindset going into this was in the right place: I had been a student in AP Environmental...
Senior Kirstina Kreidler recieves ashes during the Ash Wednesday Mass Feb. 26. Recognizing the start of Lent, students, faculty and guests gathered in the gym for Mass precided by Father Jerry Waris.
"All I can say about Iowa is, it was an embarrassment. It was a disgrace to the good people of Iowa who take their responsibilities in the caucuses very seriously,” presidential candidate Bernie Sanders...
As the kick off to Catholic Schools Week, seniors and freshmen met up for a Peer Ministry meeting during lunch and study hall Jan. 27. Freshman Makaila Traylor, senior Maya Scott and senior Elizabeth Crabtree...
“In order to have clean air in cities, you have to go electric,” Tesla founder Elon Musk said at a 2016 technology forum.
But that doesn’t necessarily reflect reality. Electric cars emit excessive...
Sports journalists from around the world visited the school's newspaper staff with Global Ties KC through the International Visitors Leadership Program Nov. 11.
When it comes to athletics, not all colleges are created equal. Though it’s not a secret that colleges can bring in hundreds of millions of dollars from their Division I sports, that is not the case...
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As flames engulfed the trees and brush of the Amazon, the world wept. A precious ecosystem home to thousands of species burns, and destruction...
Since the writing of the Constitution, American citizens have been awarded three unalienable rights, among others: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—but 10 states, from Hawaii to Maine, rightly...
Death row attorney Bryan Stevenson wrote in his bestselling book “Just Mercy” that “each of us is more important than the worst thing we’ve done.” Yet despite the “just” legal system, those...
As ballots were tallied and votes were secured, Missouri embarked on the first steps for the legalization of marijuana during the Nov. 6 election. With this move, Missouri follows the trend currently flooding...
The phrase “We are all jars of clay” was showcased while students were invited to participate in Reconciliation in the gym April 4.
Six priests from various different churches volunteered to participate:...
"It's the attackers, but it's also the attacks," “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett said. "It's not that you don't believe this is the truth; you don't even want to see this is the truth."
Smollett...
President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to obtain the billions of dollars requested for his border wall in the Washington Rose Garden Feb. 15, and signed a deal that averted the impending...
Whether onstage or offstage, at Mass, during class or in the halls there is nowhere junior Peyton Wade isn’t singing show tunes, according to close friends junior Cara Hiatt and junior Elyse Makar. Ask...
Despite what some mainstream media may be telling its readers, the nightmare societies of George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” do not reflect modern-day society. The...
Mascots should never demonize or give into stereotypes in the name of ‘team spirit.’ People are not mascots.
The Washington Redskins are a part of the problem. The word ‘redskin’ is a derogatory...
Food for Thought officially kicked-off after the Stuco sleepover in the courtyard Oct. 24 and the skits performed in the gym Oct. 25. Students on Stuco had a chance to bond with other grades while...
The face of former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the man behind the “take a knee” protests in the NFL, has been on nearly every billboard, every news station, and in every conversation for the...
Magic truly was in the air when the first note of the famous “Harry Potter” soundtrack filled the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts as the first scene of “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”...
