Keep Conscience Protection for Health Care Workers

Keep Conscience Protection for Health Care Workers

By Nick on March 28, 2009

Welcome! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Does the government have the right to tell you what you can or cannot think, or should a person’s conscience be protected under the law? If you value the ability to think for yourself, make your own decisions, and [...]

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Heartwarming Video of Life-saving Catholic Teachers

Heartwarming Video of Life-saving Catholic Teachers

By Nick on March 18, 2009

A few weeks ago we wrote how Catholic teachers Kathy Carabine and Robert Casaletto saved the life of six-year-old student Olivia Quigley. This week the Boston Globe follows up on young Olivia and her guardian angels with an extensive story that includes this video interview with Kathy and Robert:

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Catholic School 8th Grader Uses YouTube to Find Job for Dad

Catholic School 8th Grader Uses YouTube to Find Job for Dad

By Nick on March 18, 2009

Ben Gullett, an eighth grader at Nativity Catholic School in Tampa, Florida, is learning economics the hard way: his dad Mark recently lost his job as a marketing executive with the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey franchise . But Ben is also learning about marketing. He’s created a YouTube video to help his dad get [...]

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Free Catholic Study Guide for Responding to Genocide

Free Catholic Study Guide for Responding to Genocide

By Nick on March 4, 2009

If your faculty has a book group, or if you teach high school, you might want to check out the free Catholic study guide (4.8mb pdf) for Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond. Not On Our Watch was written to help people take action against genocide, and the [...]

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Archbishop of New York on Catholic Education

Archbishop of New York on Catholic Education

By Nick on March 14, 2009

“We do have faith in our future,” says Archbishop Timothy Dolan in the following 2007 video. Dolan, the new archbishop of New York, speaks about Catholic education in this message to Milwaukee Catholics:

Catholic School News for March 13, 2009

Catholic School News for March 13, 2009

By Nick on March 12, 2009

Here’s the good word in Catholic schools around the world this week:

Priest Receives Award for Support of Autistic Catholic School Children: Fr. Andrew Umberg of St. William Parish in Cincinnati, OH, will be one of thirteen recipients of the NCEA Distinguished Pastor Award.
Catholic School Teacher Flirts with Supermodel Status: Austin, MN Catholic school teacher Tina Rosenthal decides [...]

A Catholic Prayer for Economic Hardship

A Catholic Prayer for Economic Hardship

By Nick on February 27, 2009

Here’s a prayer from the back of a holy card that you might wish to share with your school community:
Heavenly Father,
it is symptomatic of our life today
that economics play a large part in it.
People labor zealously for a wage
so that they can acquire the needs of life.
They also work for
the so-called luxuries of life,
for the opportunity to [...]

101 Practical Fasting Ideas for Lent

101 Practical Fasting Ideas for Lent

By Nick on February 24, 2009

[Note: I've updated this list with 10 more ideas at One Catholic Life - February 17, 2010]
Fasting, praying and almsgiving are the three penitential practices that we are asked to engage in during Lent. In addition to fasting and abstaining with the rest of the Church on Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent, we [...]