Parenting with praise, affirmation and encouragement
Louise Dietzel
7/24/2006
ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. (Catholic Online) - In the second of a three-part-series of articles directed toward new parents, Louise Dietzel offers some basic parenting tools from her book, Parenting with Respect and Peacefulness.
There are a variety of tools that parents can choose and use to face the ...
‘Online’ baptism brings family, oceans apart, together
Catholic News Service
7/13/2006, by Pat McCarthy
AUCKLAND, New Zealand – The parents and the baby were in Devonport, a village outside Auckland; the godparents were in London; and the baptism was scheduled for the south of France. But the father's business commitments would not allow him to leave New Zealand, creating a 12,400-mile predicament ...
'Top 10 Catholic parenting tips found in the 10 Commandments' - Top Home and Family story of 2006
Catholic Online
7/7/2006, by Mary Carty
(Catholic Online) – Parents play a crucial role as lead characters in their children’s real-life video, teaching by the words they choose, the actions they take, the expressions on their faces, the time they spend with family and the tone of voice they use. Pope Benedict XVI emphasized the ...
Catholic priest sings praises of Irish group U2
Catholic News Service
7/6/2006, by Emilie Lemmons
ST. PAUL, Minn. – As a college student in the 1980s, Father Erich Rutten first associated the Irish rock band U2 with "great political rock." Then he discovered one of the band's early albums from 1981, "October." Listening to songs such as "Gloria" and "Rejoice," with references to Jerusalem and ...
Quinceanos: A Hispanic Catholic family tradition that celebrates a girl’s 15th birthday
Eastern Oklahoma Catholic
7/5/2006, by Marilyn Duck
COLLINSVILLE, Okla. (Eastern Oklahoma Catholic) - Parishioners arriving early for the 5 p.m. Vigil Mass on May 27 would be excused if they assumed the joyous celebration spilling out onto the grounds of St. Therese Church was a wedding. The church bells were pealing, and a mariachi band serenaded ...
Pope to Catholic parents: Renew your faith to be authentic teachers
Catholic News Service
7/3/2006, by Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – The key response to today's increasingly secularized communities is for adults to renew and deepen their faith in Christ so they can be authentic examples and teachers of Christian living to future generations, Pope Benedict XVI said. Before his planned trip to Valencia, Spain, July ...
Farmer's gifts to family
The Catholic Telegraph
7/3/2006, by Lenore Christopher
ST. MARYS DEANERY, Ohio (The Catholic Telegraph) - Joe Nieport is certainly willing to be celebrated, but you get a sense that he wonders what the fuss is all about. After all, it's just a birthday.
Maybe, but it's a day - or rather three months - that the Nieport family decided to make ...
Class sacrifices graduation trip to aid Uganda's 'invisible children'
Catholic News Service
6/28/2006, by Terry McGuire
TACOMA, Wash. – Visitation School's eighth-grade graduation trip to Victoria would have been a blast for the 13-member class. Whale watching, shopping and visits to the House of Wax, the Imax Theater and the provincial museum were among the activities scheduled for the three-day stay in British ...
The Don Bosco 'World Cup' – Soccer for peace
Catholic Relief Services
6/28/2006, by G. Jefferson Price III
DILI, East Timor (Catholic Relief Services) — Jubilation and excitement recently overwhelmed the fear and uncertainty gripping thousands of people who have taken refuge at the Don Bosco School grounds here, seeking safety from violent upheavals that have driven them from their homes during the last ...
Pope to attend the Fifth World Meeting of Families
Catholic News Service
6/26/2006, by Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – When Pope Benedict XVI visits Valencia, Spain, July 8-9 to close the Fifth World Meeting of Families, thousands of families will have spent the week discussing ways they can better pass on their Christian faith to their children.
Given the many challenges families face today, the ...
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