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Aquinas Participates in New Catholic High School Groundbreaking

	Bishop Paul S. Loverde of the Diocese of Arlington presided over the groundbreaking ceremony of the new Catholic high school and celebrated a rite marking the beginning of construction for the new Catholic high school.
	Sister Maria Christi, O.P., Principal of St. Thomas Aquinas Regional School (second from left), joined other guests for the groundbreaking ceremony.
	Bishop Paul S. Loverde of the Diocese of Arlington, Aquinas 8 th grade student Allyson Freeland, and other diocesan school students participated in the groundbreaking ceremony of the new Catholic high school held on September 6, 2006.

Bishop Paul S. Loverde of the Diocese of Arlington and guests were invited to the official groundbreaking ceremony of the new Catholic high school in eastern Prince William County on September 6, 2006. The new Catholic high school will be built in the Harbor Station community located along the Potomac River and north of Quantico in Dumfries, VA. It is scheduled to open for the 2008/2009 school year and will accommodate 1,000 students.

“The construction of this high school will be a shared accomplishment of the over 400,000 parishioners of the Arlington Diocese, and an inestimable benefit for generations to come,” said Bishop Paul S. Loverde.

The new Catholic high school will feature a four-year bioethics curriculum which will provide students with a solid, integrated foundation in Catholic moral teaching and the sciences of biotechnology.

Aquinas students Aidan McNulty and Allyson Freeland represented Aquinas as they greeted Bishop Loverde and the invited guests at the special event. Aidan and Allyson also participated in the groundbreaking ceremony by shoveling representative dirt with Bishop Loverde.

For more information on the new Catholic high school, visit www.newcatholichighschool.org to view a slide show and video of the groundbreaking ceremony, as well as information on the school design and a slide show on the construction progress. The website can also be accessed via the Diocese of Arlington website button located on the homepage of our school website.

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