SCHOOL NEWS

Pi Day Fun! 🥧🥧🥧 Thanks to these teachers’ willingness to take a pie to the face, the Student Council raised over $1,000 to be used for various clubs and school activities through the end of the year! This assembly always brings a lot fun, e
At Cardinal Kung Academy, we usually reanimate the past from books, but recently the 11th graders studying Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice engaged in a little experimental archaeology: they danced! They learned two dances in the style Jane Au
Open House Tonight! Interested families are invited to CKA tonight between 6pm and 8pm, where you’ll have the opportunity to meet teachers, see the classrooms, learn about our classical curriculum, and ask us your most pertinent questions! We
“Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides ... and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.” (G.K. Chesterton, In Defense of Sanity) CKA students know tha
This week, we joyfully welcomed Sister Abigail Margaret of the Sisters of Life and Fr. Justin Cinnante, O.Carm, who shared their vocation stories with our students, as part of Catholic Schools Week! Fr. Justin brought blessed scapulars, of course! We
The day following the March, the group attended the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life, where students attended breakout sessions by Fr. Gregory Pine of the Thomistic Institute (or find him on the Godsplaining or Catholic Classics podcasts) a
On Friday, 48 students and a group of parent and teacher chaperones attended the March for Life in Washington, DC! They heard remarks from Vice President, J.D. Vance, in the pre-March rally, walked joyfully through the streets of DC, and gathered for
Our girls’ basketball team had a great game and victory yesterday with a final score of 47-33! 🏀

CKA: In the News

 

Classical Education’s

Thriving Counterculture

Just before Christmas 2024, our school was blessed to host special visitor Mark Bauerlein, professor-emeritus of literature at Emory University and Senior Editor at First Things magazine.  He spent a full day with us: attending our classes, lunching with our students, and praying with our whole community.  He liked what he saw, which he wrote up in a beautiful profile for the journal Modern Age.  Read his essay to learn why "there should be more schools like Cardinal Kung Academy," and consider reaching out to learn how you can partner with us to advance classical education in the Diocese of Bridgeport. 

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Two CKA Seniors to

Attend

West Point

Any high-school principal will tell you it’s a big deal when a graduating senior is accepted by the U.S. Military Academy. Getting two kids from the same high school in the same year into West Point is rare enough that in most American towns it would be front-page news. Two kids from the same high school in the same year out of a graduating class of fewer than two dozen? Stop the presses.

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CKA Celebrates Saints

in Two Families!

As Catholics throughout the Diocese of Bridgeport celebrated All Saints Day on November 1st, the students and families of Cardinal Kung Academy had special reason to celebrate: two of the high school students have canonized relatives.

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