About Cathedral
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About
Cathedral
High SchoolCathedral High School is rebuilding Catholic culture through a classical education in Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. The vision of Cathedral High School is to form students to be conformed to Christ, pursue truth, and create beauty in a virtuous life.
This vision unfolds within the evangelizing mission of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, according to the time-tested discipline of the classical curriculum and method, and benefiting from the holistic philosophy and spirituality of Cardinal Saint John Henry Newman, whose motto guides this educational endeavor: Cor ad cor loquitur.
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Our History
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2023
Aug 11 – Inaugural House Sorting for Houses Benedict, Neri, Barbieri, and De Sales.
Apr 6 – Sacred Art Live! hosted at CHS
Sept 7 – First CHS Lecture Series
Sept 22 – Joseph Pearce leads a seminar at CHS.
Sept 30 – Walk for Life
Oct 7 – First Family Guild Pasta Dinner
Jan – Additional scholarships established
Mar – Accredidation Visits
Apr 27 – New Family Orientation
May – Accredidation from TCCB-ED granted.
May 16 – Housemas, Evensong, and Welcome Dinner
May 31 – Eucharistic Revival Evensong
June – The partnership for dual-credit with UST established.
July – Summer camps offered for the first time.
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2022
Aug 11 – Inaugural Class Orientation.
Aug 12 – First day of school for our inaugural class.
Aug 15 – Opening of the School Year Mass celebrated by Most Rev. Bishop Lopes for the Cathedral High School community.
Aug 30 – Parents Back to School Night.
Aug 31 – Newman House Officers Inauguration Ceremony.
Sept 3-5 – First Leisure for Culture Weekend.
Sept 22 – First Coffee Night of the school year.
Oct 3-6 – First Cathedral High School Spirit Week.
Oct 7 – First Newman Day.
Oct 18 – First Evensong.
Nov 1 – First Freshman Retreat.
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2021
May 9 – Groundbreaking ceremony for Cathedral High School construction.
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2020
January – Planning for Capital Campaign commences.
September – Start of Through the Beauty of Holiness Capital Campaign.
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2019
November – Beginning of pre-campaign study with Ruotolo Associates.
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2018
January – Vision Committee established under Bishop Steven J. Lopes, Pastor of the Cathedral parish, and Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.
Spring – Beginning of architectural design process with Jackson and Ryan Architects.
August – Curriculum Committee established to develop curriculum and philosophy of education.
September – Initiation of financial analysis and projection study with Meitler.
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2017
February – Feasibility and enrollment potential study with Meitler
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Patron Saint
As the patron saint of Cathedral High School, St. John Henry Newman’s spirituality, philosophy, and life journey illuminate and form the culture of the school. From the House System to the names of the classrooms and halls — St. John Henry Newman’s legacy and inspiration guides the school community toward fulfilling its mission and vision.
Heart Speaks Unto Heart:
"This motto of Blessed John Henry Newman, adopted from St. Francis de Sales, contains the essence of a ‘philosophy of communication,’ which is also a philosophy of education. If education is about the communication of values, or meaningful information, and of wisdom and of tradition, between persons and across generations, it is important to know that it can only take place in the heart; that is, in the center of the human person." (Stratford Caldecott, Beauty in the Word)
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Our Patrimony
A patrimony is an inheritance of culture, faith, and history received from the past, treasured, and carefully handed on the to the next generation. As a Catholic school, Cathedral High School upholds the sacred deposit of the Catholic faith and upholds the teachings of the Church. In addition, the mission of the school is to hand on the patrimony of English Christianity, as embodied by the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.
The Church’s mission of Catholic education is refined in the Ordinariate according to its vocation to preserve and promote the patrimony of English Christianity for new generations to the enrichment of Christ’s Church. This demands an understanding of the patrimony that is deeper than a collection of things, words, or even actions. The rich patrimony of English Christianity is the sacred history of the Church’s own faith and its interaction with a particular people and a particular culture. Over the course of centuries, English culture made its own the faith once delivered to the Saints, interiorized it and expressed it in imagery, language, and a logic all its own. All the while, the Gospel penetrated that culture, transformed it from within, and used it as a privileged canvas on which to portray love’s redeeming work. At its best, English Christianity expressed a sacramental world-view: a view of God, man, and the right ordering of things so that the world itself and all its wonders is understood as the burning bush of God’s revelation.
Established in 2012, the Ordinariate functions as a Diocese under Most Rev. Bishop Steven J. Lopes. With more than 40 parishes in North America, and based in Houston, Texas, the Ordinariate exists for those who seek full communion with the Church or have been renewed in a particular way by the liturgical and communal expression of English Christianity found within the Ordinariate patrimony. While Cathedral High School gives fresh expression to the teachings of the Catholic faith and the richness of English Christianity, the school is not exclusively for members of the Ordinariate. Rather, Cathedral seeks to evangelize and enrich Catholic education by its unique mission in the greater Houston area.
Click here to visit the Ordinariate’s website www.ordinariate.net.
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham is the spiritual mother and liturgical heart of our new high school. Cathedral High School is located on the beautiful Cathedral and Shrine campus in the Spring Branch neighborhood of Houston. The school building includes a larger Sacred Music rehearsal hall, Sacred Art studio, state-of-the-art science labs, and a full-size gymnasium, which functions as a shared parish hall space with the Cathedral.
Click here to visit the Cathedral parish’s website: www.olwcatholic.org.
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