More than 400 diocesan teachers gathered Aug. 7 at Mater Dei High School in Breese to listen, to renew old acquaintances and make new friends before diocesan Catholic schools open their doors to new and returning students. Then everyone got down to business by choosing a breakout session that related […]
By LINDA BEHRENS Cally Mitchell and Cindy Vymola, two teachers from schools in the Diocese of Belleville, have received special recognition awards as classroom teachers in the Those Who Excel program by the Illinois State Board of Education. Since 1970, the Illinois State Board of Education has sponsored the “Those […]
Four current seminarians connected to SIUC Newman Center By LINDA BEHRENS | Contributing writer In 1958, as an outreach of St. Francis Xavier Church in Carbondale, the first chaplain was assigned to the Newman Catholic Student Center that serves the Catholic community at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale (SIUC). Five […]
