{"id":16687,"date":"2015-01-28T22:09:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T22:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=16687"},"modified":"2015-01-29T16:54:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T16:54:42","slug":"territory-celebrates-national-catholic-school-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=16687","title":{"rendered":"Territory Celebrates National Catholic Schools Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Kenneth Mapp Tuesday signed a proclamation designating\u00a0the week of January 25 &#8211; 31<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span>as National Catholic Schools Week in the territory.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mapp&#8217;s proclamation is in line with the annual national recognition of Catholic education.\u00a0The 2015 celebration has as its theme,\u00a0&#8220;<em>Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service&#8221; <\/em>and\u00a0Mapp says the slogan embodies the virtues that are at the heart of a Catholic education.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0proclamation states that Catholic schools were introduced in the territory on St. Thomas in the mid 1800s. Today, four schools remain, including\u00a0Sts. Peter and Paul on St. Thomas, and St. Mary&#8217;s, St. Patrick&#8217;s and St. Joseph&#8217;s on St. Croix. Other Catholic schools have closed in recent years due to low enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These schools continue to contribute to the community by instilling values, character and compassion in their students,&#8221; the proclamation stated.<\/p>\n<p>The governor is urging &#8220;all residents to recognize the important contributions these schools make toward the development of our children and youth, and our community at large.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Kenneth Mapp Tuesday signed a proclamation designating\u00a0the week of January 25 &#8211; 31\u00a0as National Catholic Schools Week in the territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[191,5,147],"tags":[1013],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Territory Celebrates National Catholic Schools Week - V.I. 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