Supporting Catholic education in metro Detroit has long been a part of CLSMD's mission. In the past, CLSMD annually awarded a partial scholarship to a student in a Detroit Catholic high school; recipients were chosen on the basis of an essay contest (see list at right). Given the great need in our region, CLSMD is expanding its support to all 23 Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Detroit.
Starting in fall 2022, we plan to provide a $500 tuition award to each of 13 Catholic schools; the remaining 10 schools will receive the award in fall 2023. Each tuition award will be provided directly to the school, which will choose the recipient. The $500 award must be used to defray the cost of a student's tuition.
Please consider a donation to the High School Scholarship fund. Whether it's $10 or $1000, all gifts will go toward making Catholic education more affordable for students in the Archdiocese.
Please make a gift on our membership renewal/donations page, or mail your check to CLSMD Treasurer Steve Grobbell at Carlin Edwards Brown PLLC, 2055 Orchard Lake Road, Sylvan Lake, MI 48320. Please make check payable to "Catholic Lawyers Society of Metropolitan Detroit" and indicate "Scholarship fund" in the memo line.
Fall 2022 Tuition Award Schools
Austin Catholic High School
Bishop Foley Catholic High School
Cabrini High School
Cardinal Mooney High School
De La Salle Collegiate
Divine Child High School
Detroit Loyola High School
Everest Collegiate
Gabriel Richard Catholic High School
Marian High School
St. Catherine of Siena Academy
University of Detroit Jesuit High School
Fall 2023 Tuition Award Schools
Academy of the Sacred Heart
Brother Rice High School
Detroit Cristo Rey High School
Catholic Central High School
Mercy High School
Notre Dame Preparatory School
Our Lady of the Lake Catholic School
Regina Catholic High School
Shrine Catholic High School
St. Mary Catholic Central High School
"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)