Lwanga awardee finds blessings in mixing faith, science as Catholic educator

June 16, 2025 | St. Louis Review

Venus Spain, Father Carl Scheble are this year’s Lwanga Center lifetime achievement honorees

One of the perks of working at a Catholic school is discovering ways to incorporate faith into academics.

That’s exactly what Venus D. Spain has done with her freshman biology class at Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School. This past school year, she invited students to attend Mass at her parish, St. Peter Claver, which was followed up with a reflection paper on the “biology of God.”

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