In response to racial injustice spurred by the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, a group of ERCBNA educators met during the summer of 2020 to create resources to promote antiracism. ERCBNA schools are encouraged to utilize these materials to promote conversations surrounding racial justice and antiracism during the 2020-2021
It is hard to believe that our first immersion to Lima was fifteen years ago in February 2006 with Catholic Memorial from Boston, Massachusetts. Time has come and gone so fast, and so many changes have occurred over the years. From our first groups staying in the Montefino Hotel in Lince in 2006, to having immersion houses now in Las Flores and Jicamarca. Over the past 15 years, Lima has certainly changed towards a bustling modern city with 10 million people. The older days of dusty roads...
On October 1, Advocacy Coordinators from ERCBNA schools met via Google Meet to hold our bi-annual advocacy workshop. The event had originally been planned as a 3-day in-person workshop in Tampa, Florida, but due to the ongoing pandemic, the workshop was moved to a digital format
Despite the pandemic, Catholic Memorial still raised awareness for breast cancer this year and hosted its very own socially distant Making Strides for Breast Cancer Walk on campus. In keeping with the theme of this year’s American Cancer Society initiative, "Share the Light," each grade partook in their own prayer service then heard a testimonial talk from either Ken Martin (CM Class of 1977 and current Member of the Board of Directors for American Society), Colleen Penkala .
On September 30, students from Colegio Cardenal Newman in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Iona Preparatory in New Rochelle, New York met via Google Meet to have a discussion surrounding the realities of COVID-19 in each of their countries.
The United Nations (UN) holds a Universal Periodic Review for every nation that is a member of the UN. This process allows for the review of the human rights record of each nation, and a subsequent for each nation to display how they have “responded” to improve human rights concerns in their country. The United States UPR was held on November 9th at the U.N. in Geneva. To watch a recording of the livestream of this UPR
