"I wish you to enlarge your knowledge, to cultivate your reason, to get an insight into the relation of truth to truth, to learn to view things as they are, to understand how faith and reason stand to each other ..."
St. John Henry Newman

2009: “What Does it Mean to Have Faith in God?”
Winner:  Rafael Clay (Loyola)

2010: “The Cost of Creation: If You Want to Cultivate Peace, Protect Creation”
Winner:  Dontea Haliburton  (Loyola)

2011: “What Does It Mean to Be Holy, and How Is God Calling Me to Holiness?”
Winner: Najee A’ve  (Loyola)

2012: “Does Faith in God Restrict or Make Us Free?”
Winner: Pauline Hryzodub (Cristo Rey)

2013: “What Role Does Faith Play in Creating a Just Society?”
Winner: Michael Travis (Loyola)
Winner: Amia Davis (Cristo Rey)

2014: "Interview with Pope Francis: Discernment, Role of Women and Finding God in All Things"
Winner: Demetrius Heard (Loyola)

2015:  Pope Francis’ Exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel
Winner: JoVaughn Townsend (Loyola)

2016:  Pope Francis' Bull of Indiction of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Misericordiae Vultis
Winner: Okwuolisa Umeokolo (Loyola)

2017:    Pope Francis Tweets
Winner:  Anthony Zuniga (Loyola)

2018:    Pope Francis on the Church as a Field Hospital
Winner:  Gary Simpson (Loyola)

2019:    St. Josephine Bakhita
Winner: Esmeralda Orozco (Cristo Rey)

Each year, CLSMD makes a limited amount of scholarship money available to high school students. Scholarship money is awarded only to students in Catholic high schools in metropolitan Detroit. 
Our 2019 scholarship winner, Esmeralda Orozco, is pictured below with CLSMD board member and scholarship committee chair Patricia Galvin. Ms. Orozco, a student at Cristo Rey High School in Detroit, was awarded the scholarship for her winning essay on St. Josephine Bakhita.