St. Catherine Of Sienna Academy is ready to teach young women and strengthen a community

WIXOM, Mich. (WXYZ) - While several high schools in the Detroit area are being forced to close their doors, a new high school is opening it's doors to young women. 

St. Catherine of Sienna Academy will hold it's first day of classes on September 1st. The school hopes to strengthen young women as well as the community in the Wixom/Novi area. 

"Lot's of company's, construction company's have been praying for this project to move ahead because they need work," that according to Mike Dewan, the President of St. Catherine Of Sienna Academy Foundation. 

A new school is being built for the 2011 school year.  It will be located at the corner of Grand River and Napier in Wixom.  In the meantime, classes will be held in the Wixom business park on Beck Road just north of I-96.  

Dewan says that St. Catherine's isnt better than other schools but rather unique.  They will focus their teaching on the "femine genious" which Pope John Paul The Second spoke about in 2000,  They instruct the women to set the world ablaze, just as the Pope said, knowing that GOD loves them and has a plan for them.  

The school is starting with a freshman class and will add a new class each year from this point forward.  Emily Messiter says, "there are lot's of issues facing girls my age.  For example, how skinny girls need to be and how the world tells girls how they have to act and dress. 

The school focuses on teaching young women that GOD made you perfect the way you are."