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Our Values

Rooted in our faith, our students discover their authentic selves.

As we come to know Truth in the person of Jesus Christ, we are drawn to the One who is Love itself.

At St. Catherine of Siena Academy, the spiritual life of each student is directed toward bringing her into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, as a daughter of God the Father through the power of the Holy Spirit.

As the Eucharist is the “source and summit” of our faith, daily Mass is an integral part of our day.  All students are given the opportunity and training to be an integral part of the Mass as lectors and servers.

The Sacrament of Reconciliation is offered on a regular basis and by appointment.

Visits to the Blessed Sacrament, Morning Prayer as a school, and availability of spiritual direction are all daily opportunities to encounter Christ at St. Catherine.

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Our Mission Statement

To educate young women to develop their feminine genius - their unique dignity, identity, and gifts as women created in the image of God.

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Our Vision

Transform the culture by equipping young women to be leaders as bold witnesses of the Gospel, rooted in the love of God and formed by faith and reason.

Our Values

Faith

A personal relationship with Jesus based on an encounter with Him.

Hope

Trust in the providence of God and a student’s vision for her future in the world of work, home, and society.

Love

Love of self, neighbor, and God.

Intelligence

Integration of reason with faith resulting in academic excellence and moral intellectual thought.

Confidence

Intrinsic dignity as a woman, empowering her to use her unique talents and gifts.

Integrity

A well-formed conscience — knowing moral truth and acting upon it.

Holiness

A desire for improvement as a daughter of God, willing to admit fault and working to correct it.

Generosity

Giving of self without counting the cost.

Mission

A missionary heart, striving to better society and the people she meets with the love of Jesus.

Cornerstones

Faith

As we come to know Truth in the person of Jesus Christ, we are drawn to the One who is Love itself.  It is that Love that propels us outward in service, but first, it is that love that brings us before the Lord as His Beloved. It is in the intimacy of that encounter that our spiritual lives truly begin.

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At St. Catherine of Siena Academy, the spiritual life of each student is directed toward bringing her into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, as a daughter of God the Father through the power of the Holy Spirit.

As the Eucharist is the “source and summit” of our faith, daily Mass is an integral part of our day.  All students are given the opportunity and training to be an integral part of the Mass as lectors and servers.

The Sacrament of Reconciliation is offered on a regular basis and by appointment.

Visits to the Blessed Sacrament, Morning Prayer as a school, and availability of spiritual direction are all daily opportunities to encounter Christ at St. Catherine.

Reason

St. Catherine of Siena Academy challenges students with a traditional college-preparatory program that incorporates faith and reason.  We also offer Latin and Philosophy as the complementary roots for language and rational thought.  Our curriculum offers many opportunities for STARS to take Advanced Placement courses too!

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By offering a wide range of classes, we educate students where they are, always challenging them in areas of weakness and building in areas of strength.  A student is placed in courses commensurate with her abilities and will work with her teachers to reach her greatest potential.

We want our students to use the academic gifts God has given them and encourage them to reach new heights by giving them the tools to do so.

Leadership

We believe in the dignity of every young woman and honor the gifts God has given by providing opportunities for her to use those gifts, personally or civically.

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Leadership is the ability to give of oneself and better the world from a desire to serve as Christian disciples.  At St. Catherine’s we cultivate this desire by giving each student a voice and an opportunity to use their gifts. To do so, we encourage every young woman to listen to the voice within as it reveals the stirrings of her own heart so she can take a leap of faith and use her gifts to grow and respond to the world around her.

Student clubs and activities are created by students who want to enrich themselves and mature in the use of their gifts.  We nurture this growth by helping students find new ways to share of themselves and their talents, whether it is of the mind, the heart or the body.  God gives us many gifts, and He meant for us to share them! For this reason, we have a variety of extra-curricular activities and avenues for students to share of themselves.

Similarly, we structure service opportunities and experiential learning so students can further develop their gifts by giving of themselves to the broader community.

Sisterhood

If there’s one thing our STARS love, it’s sharing the sisterhood. As our students will readily attest, SCA is a place where young women are free to be themselves, to grow, to thrive, and to put down deep roots that prepare them for a brilliant future. But St. Catherine’s isn’t just a place; it’s a community.

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At St. Catherine, our students form life-long friendships. Students come to St. Catherine of Siena Academy from over 30 feeder schools and are immediately welcomed into the sisterhood. Students have many opportunities to become active members of this family community. They grow together in faith, mind, and heart, sharing in the joys and struggles of high school as they prepare for graduation and the world which awaits.

We have a Big Sister/Little Sister program at St. Catherine Academy.  The young women of St. Catherine work to break down cliques and accept their peers as sisters, recognizing that we are one family, growing together in faith.

Our Patron,
Saint Catherine of Siena

Caterina di Giacomo di Benincasa was born on the feast of the Annunciation, March 25th, 1347, in the Fontebranda district of Siena, Italy, the twenty-fourth of twenty-five children. Her father was a dyer and her mother was the daughter of a local poet. Catherine was known as an imaginative, idealistic, and outgoing child who was fiercely independent. She began to have personal revelations early in her childhood. Catherine consecrated her virginity to Christ at the age of seven and began wearing the Dominican Tertiary’s habit at the age of sixteen, taking the Vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience.

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She took care of the sick, especially those with the most repulsive diseases, served the poor, and dedicated her life to the conversion of sinners. She lived in a century when chaos ruled the Church and society. Early on, her passion to know the truth took precedence over every other pursuit in her life. Her profound love of God and the clarity with which she expressed this love transformed the society around her and the wider culture in a very practical way. Saint Catherine died in Rome, in 1380, at the age of thirty-three.

Saint Catherine of Siena was canonized by Pope Pius II in 1461, and named Patron Saint of Italy on May 5, 1940 by Pope Pius XII. She was given the title of Doctor of the Church in 1970 by Pope Paul VI. She is simultaneously the Patron Saint of Siena, the Patron Saint of Italy, and the Patron Saint of Europe, as proclaimed by St. John Paul II in October 1999. Today, the body of St. Catherine is in a tomb in the Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, and her head is enshrined, incorrupt, in San Domenico Church in Siena, Italy.

Saint Catherine of Siena is one of only four female “Doctors” of the Roman Catholic Church (St. Teresa of Avila, St. Therese of Lisieux, and St. Hildegard of Bingen are the other three). She is known as the Doctor of Unity for bringing about the union of the Papacy and returning it to Rome after nearly a century in France. St. Catherine dictated, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, four treatises called “The Dialogues.” She also wrote nearly four hundred letters and a series of prayers.

Saint Catherine’s love of Jesus and witness to the feminine genius inspired her as the patron Saint of Saint Catherine of Siena Academy.

St. Catherine of Siena, PRAY FOR US!

“The hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of women is being acknowledged in its fullness, the hour in which women acquire in the world an influence, an effect and a power never hitherto achieved. That is why, at this moment when the human race is undergoing so deep a transformation, women imbued with a spirit of the Gospel can do so much to aid humanity in not falling.

Closing message of the Second Vatican Council

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