Learning through song – Catholic students take to opera in class
Catholic News Service
9/19/2006, by Barbara Watkins
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (CNS) -- Take two classes of seventh-graders. Have them create a 20-minute opera, story, lyrics and all. Add two classes of kindergartners, who will perform the opera before a rapt audience of school parents. Then do it year after year for six years. The result – Opera America's ...
New sounds of peace for children in Lebanon
Catholic Online
9/15/2006, by David Snyder
(CRS) – After 34 days of war, a new sound is ringing out from the hills above the southern Lebanese city of Jezzine: laughter. And before you get out of your car at the hilltop Maria Aziz School, you had better make sure you have enough energy to keep up with 104 kids on vacation.
Such it is ...
High school dress codes fashioned by tradition, style
The Dialog
9/12/2006, by Joseph Ryan
WILMINGTON, Del. (The Dialog) – Take a look at the high school dress codes of the 21st century; they include a lot more concerns than the lengths of young people's skirts and hair. Among those rules are:
- Tattoos must be completely covered during school and while students participate in ...
Lebanese teen spend summer break caring for displaced neighbors
Catholic Relief Services
9/7/2006, by David Snyder
(Catholic Relief Services) Mahmoud Maatouk is one you would pick out from a crowd. More likely, he would pick you out. With a quick smile and a ready laugh, Maatouk spills energy like water, and feeds those around him with a steady stream of what seems an endless supply of enthusiasm.
But ...
Helping kids handle divorce
Catholic Digest
9/5/2006, by Lynn Cassella
(Catholic Digest) – Parents have more influence than they might think in helping their children adjust to family life after divorce. Here’s some advice for soothing pains and healing hearts.
The greatest challenge is to maintain a close relationship with children during the splitting up of ...
‘How sweet the sound’ – Famed New Orleans Catholic band back
Catholic News Service
8/25/2006, by Erika Anderson
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) – During a sweltering hot Louisiana day in late July, the sun was beating down upon the heads of about 70 teenage boys standing on the asphalt across the street from their school. Their faces were set in determination, though beads of sweat lined their foreheads and cheeks. As ...
Teed off – Parents urged to 'just say no’ to offensive clothing messages
Catholic Online
8/25/2006, by Mary Carty
(Catholic Online) – ‘tis the season for “back to school shopping.” Racks and aisles at the malls and superstores are crammed with merchandise to entice shoppers and set the standards for what children and teens will wear to school.
A mere glance at this year’s children’s clothing styles may be ...
Heartache: Tears of sending a child off to college
The Catholic Observer
8/18/2006, by Peggy Weber
SPRINGFIELD, Ma. (The Catholic Observer) - Sweat was pouring down my back as I climbed to the fourth floor for the fifth time.
I don’t even know what I was carrying. I just know that I had calculated there was only one more trip left till all of the “stuff” from the van was moved into Kerry’s dorm ...
Children learn rosary with from quilt
Arkansas Catholic
8/18/2006, by Maryanne Meyerriecks
GREENWOOD,Ark. (Arkansas Catholic) - Cassandra and Jay Poppe moved from
Chicago to Greenwood, with their four children three years ago, looking for a simpler lifestyle and a good environment in which to raise a family.
At the same time the Poppes, parishioners at Sts. Sabina and Mary Church in ...
'Pre-seminary' houses altar boys for St. Peter's Basilica
Catholic News Service
8/14/2006, by Cindy Wooden
VATCAN CITY (CNS) – Silently processing out of the sacristy of St. Peter's Basilica at 7 a.m. each day, the altar servers look like angels, but the women who cook and clean for them say they are normal boys.
Well, maybe not totally normal. After all, these 11- to 18-year-olds live at the Vatican ...
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