{"id":298676,"date":"2026-10-02T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298676\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:52:10","slug":"back-to-school-pep-rally-kicks-off-new-academic-year-celebrates-175-years-of-catholic-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298676\/","title":{"rendered":"Back-to-School Pep Rally Kicks Off New Academic Year, Celebrates 175 Years of Catholic Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted October 2, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>See scenes from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia\u2019s official Back-to-School Pep Rally held Sept. 28 at Monsignor Bonner &amp; Archbishop Prendergast Catholic High School in Drexel Hill. Hundreds of students from Catholic elementary and secondary schools across the five-county archdiocese joined Archbishop Nelson J. P\u00e9rez and leaders from the Office of Catholic Education to celebrate the start of the 2026-27 school year and the 175th anniversary of Catholic education in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. (Photos by Bradley Digital)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted October 2, 2026 See scenes from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia\u2019s official Back-to-School Pep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2387,44072,123075,104292,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-298676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-archbishop-nelson-j-perez","tag-back-to-school","tag-monsignor-bonner-amp-archbishop-prendergast-high-school","tag-office-of-catholic-education","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}