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Denver, Colo., Jul 16, 2017 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- With the goal of encountering children on a more personal level to meet their academic and spiritual needs, a Montessori school influenced by the Byzantine Catholic tradition is opening in Denver, Colorado.Pauline Meert, who co-founded Sophia Montessori Academy along with Irene O'Brien, said the two “wanted to combine Montessori and Catholicism because it just made so much sense.”Meert said the school aims to help children fulfill their God-given potential, and that “the Montessori message really makes that possible for each child, not just for a classroom as a whole, but for each individual.”Students in Montessori schools work in periods of uninterrupted time – ideally three hours – having the freedom to choose from an established range of options. The Montessori Method uses hands-on techniques in presenting concepts to individual children, rather than a group oriented, lecture-based ap...
NEW YORK (AP) -- George Romero, whose classic "Night of the Living Dead" and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh-devouring undead spawn countless imitators, remakes and homages, has died. He was 77....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans lined up across the country and in expatriate communities around the world Sunday to vote in a symbolic rejection of President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution, a proposal that's raising tensions in a nation battered by shortages and anti-government protests....
Nine people were killed when floodwaters from a sudden rainstorm thundered through a tranquil swimming area in Tonto National Forest....
TONTO NATIONAL FOREST, Ariz. (AP) -- A flash flood barreled through a popular Arizona swimming hole where more than a hundred people were taking refuge from summer heat, killing at least seven people, leaving many more missing and forcing survivors to cling to trees in the rocky terrain, officials and a witness said....
(Vatican Radio) An unofficial poll about Venezuela's future, especially concerning the proposed Constituent Assembly, is now underway. This polls asks three questions, namely...If voters reject the Constituent Assembly, if they want Venezuela's Armed Forces to defend the Constitution as it stands, and if they want elections before President Nicolas Maduro's term expires next year.Opposition leader and runner up in the Presidential Election Henrique Capriles says voting in this poll is important for the Nation's Freedom. More than two thousand polling stations nationwide are open. President Nicolas Maduro is calling the poll illegal and meaningless. The Opposition plans and hopes that the Poll will reverse President Maduro's drive towards a Constituent Assembly, which he announced on Mayday. It's intended to neutralize the National Assembly which is a polítical thorn in his side. He claims...
LONDON (AP) -- After Roger Federer closed out a Wimbledon final that was more of a coronation than a contest with an ace, he sat in his changeover chair and wiped away tears....
NEW YORK (AP) -- House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley hesitated when asked about his party's core message to voters....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Arminta Jeffryes was arrested while protesting police brutality. Then the police department played an unusual role in her court case....
PAYSON, Ariz. (AP) -- A rural fire chief says at least four people were found dead and about a dozen more are missing after flash flooding poured over a popular swimming area inside the Tonto National Forest in central Arizona....