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St. Charles Borromeo is a Catholic faith community called by baptism to witness and live the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. Gathered at Table, nourished by Eucharist, and guided by scripture, we share our gifts as we minister through worship, faith formation, education, and service.
Mass Times Daily (Mon-Fri) 9 AM Saturday (Vigil) 4 PM Sunday 8:30 AM & 11 AM Eucharistic Adoration Wednesday 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM First Friday of Every Month 9:30 AM - 12 PM |
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The parish was organized in the spring of 1947. Fr. Maurice F. Wogan was assigned by Bishop Charles LeBlond to take a census. The area to be surveyed was a five square mile area overlapping the county line between Clay and Platte counties. He found about 85 families.
On April 6, 1947, Easter Sunday, the congregation gathered for their first celebration of the Eucharist as a new parish in the Englewood Public School Auditorium. This school was located on the southeast corner of North Oak and Englewood Road. Later, a tavern on Oak Street was used until the parish could obtain its own church. Five acres were purchased from Michael F. and Margaret L. Lynch on February 21, 1947. On June 16, 1950, an additional four acres were obtained from Margaret L. Lynch. A surplus Army chapel, a Quonset building, was brought from Coffeyville, KS in April 1947. Parishioners along with Fr. Wogan went to Coffeyville, disassembled the building and... |
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The Catholic Church has articulated a beautiful vision for authentic education through a wide variety of magisterial documents. In 2006, Archbishop Michael Miller, as Secretary of the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education, summarized The Holy See’s Teaching on Catholic Schools. This summary is broken into “Five Essential Marks of a Catholic School”. The Catholic Classical mission we strive for at Borromeo Academy thoroughly fulfills the Church’s vision within these documents. Utilizing this framework below, we list a sampling of excerpts that have provided a basis for our Mission Statement, curriculum, methodology, teacher and parent continuing ed. program, financial aid, etc.
1. Inspired by a Supernatural Vision
Learning and teaching which is characterized by the search for truth and wisdom is enlivened by the presence of the Spirit within each person.
2. Founded on a Christian Anthropology
An excellent Catholic school is driven by a mission which views all men and women with an inherent dignity as sons and daughters of God. “All too many Catholic schools fall into the trap of a secular academic success culture, putting their Christological focus and its accompanying understanding of the human person in second place. Christ is ‘fitted in’ rather than being the school’s vital principle… Christ is not an afterthought or an add-on to Catholic educational philosophy; he is the center and fulcrum of the entire enterprise…” (HSTCS, P. 24, 26)
3. Animated by Communion and Community
A Catholic school is called to be more than an institution; it is a “genuine community of faith” (Cf. J. Michael Miller, CSB, The Holy See’s Teaching on Catholic Schools). Because Catholic schooling is done on behalf and in the name of parents, our schools seek to reproduce the “warm and intimate atmosphere of family life” (Ibid). St John Bosco said “education is a thing of the heart,” and therefore requires the personal accompanying of a teacher (Ibid.).
4. Imbued with a Catholic Worldview Throughout Its Curriculum
Catholic schools are far more than public schools with religion class and morality added. Our students receive from a Catholic education a way of seeing the world that is full of beauty, wonder, truth and goodness. This is the antidote to an education that is fragmented, utilitarian and frequently devoid of real beauty. Francis Bacon once quipped, “knowledge is power”; as Catholics, we believe that “knowledge is wonderful.” Our Catholic educational institutions have the joy and responsibility of presenting to students a purposeful world willed into being by the creative love of our Heavenly Father.
5. Sustained by Gospel Witness [of Teachers]
What a noble vocation it is to be a Catholic educator, to assist young people in discovering who they are and for what they are made. St. Catherine of Siena once remarked, “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” When Catholic Education is what it is called to be, it too has the power to set the world on fire. May the parents, teachers and school children of St. Charles Borromeo Academy — through their constant contact with Jesus the Word made Flesh — be inspired missionary disciples of His Kingdom.
1. Inspired by a Supernatural Vision
Learning and teaching which is characterized by the search for truth and wisdom is enlivened by the presence of the Spirit within each person.
2. Founded on a Christian Anthropology
An excellent Catholic school is driven by a mission which views all men and women with an inherent dignity as sons and daughters of God. “All too many Catholic schools fall into the trap of a secular academic success culture, putting their Christological focus and its accompanying understanding of the human person in second place. Christ is ‘fitted in’ rather than being the school’s vital principle… Christ is not an afterthought or an add-on to Catholic educational philosophy; he is the center and fulcrum of the entire enterprise…” (HSTCS, P. 24, 26)
3. Animated by Communion and Community
A Catholic school is called to be more than an institution; it is a “genuine community of faith” (Cf. J. Michael Miller, CSB, The Holy See’s Teaching on Catholic Schools). Because Catholic schooling is done on behalf and in the name of parents, our schools seek to reproduce the “warm and intimate atmosphere of family life” (Ibid). St John Bosco said “education is a thing of the heart,” and therefore requires the personal accompanying of a teacher (Ibid.).
4. Imbued with a Catholic Worldview Throughout Its Curriculum
Catholic schools are far more than public schools with religion class and morality added. Our students receive from a Catholic education a way of seeing the world that is full of beauty, wonder, truth and goodness. This is the antidote to an education that is fragmented, utilitarian and frequently devoid of real beauty. Francis Bacon once quipped, “knowledge is power”; as Catholics, we believe that “knowledge is wonderful.” Our Catholic educational institutions have the joy and responsibility of presenting to students a purposeful world willed into being by the creative love of our Heavenly Father.
5. Sustained by Gospel Witness [of Teachers]
What a noble vocation it is to be a Catholic educator, to assist young people in discovering who they are and for what they are made. St. Catherine of Siena once remarked, “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” When Catholic Education is what it is called to be, it too has the power to set the world on fire. May the parents, teachers and school children of St. Charles Borromeo Academy — through their constant contact with Jesus the Word made Flesh — be inspired missionary disciples of His Kingdom.
