Cuts to federal financial aid worries Catholic schools, impacts students
Our Sunday Visitor
4/26/2006, by Steven Saint
HUNTINGTON, Ind. (Our Sunday Visitor) – Xavier University of Louisiana had been in session one week when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. With up to two feet of water in the buildings, no boiler or electricity, this school, founded by the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, shut down. Seventy-five ...
Some students cheat with old methods and new 'techy' tools
Catholic News Service
4/24/2006, by Mark Pattison
ATLANTA, Ga. – Cheating is reaching the "middle majority" of high school students, and not necessarily because the Internet makes it easier to cheat, said a former Catholic high school student who said he once nearly succumbed to the temptation to cheat.
Jared Fattoross, now in college, said his ...
Internet education programs available to parents
Catholic News Service
5/13/2006, by Michael Brown, Theresa Laurence, Erick Rommel and Chris Donahue
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A generation ago, parents worried about their children getting in with the wrong crowd. Today, they worry the wrong crowd is being invited into their children's homes through the Internet.
To combat the pervasive and sometimes dangerous impact of the Internet on today's ...
Children's choir helps youth connect to their faith
Catholic News Service
4/21/2006, by Denis Grasska
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- The children's choir at St. Didacus Parish in San Diego is not only inspiring the children of the parish and delighting adult parishioners, but it also is an invaluable resource in the faith development of its young members, according to parish leaders.
Formed in September ...
Catholic expert: Blogs a danger to students
Catholic News Service
4/20/2006, by Mark Pattison
ATLANTA, Ga. – Blogging poses grave safety and legal issues, said Sister Mary Angela Shaughnessy, a Sister of Charity of Nazareth, Ky., who is executive director of the Education Law Institute in Louisville, Ky. "Two years ago, I don't think I could have told you what blogging is," Sister Mary ...
Bullying seen as persistent problem, Catholic educators told
Catholic News Service
4/20/2006, by Mark Pattison
ATLANTA, Ga. – Bullying is such a serious issue that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta monitor it as a "child risk behavior," according to Lynne Lang, a school community health educator in St. Louis. To illustrate her point, she said 160,000 children stay home from ...
Young Catholics gather in faith
The Catholic SUN
4/17/2006, by Connie Cissell
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The gymnasium at St. Matthew’s School in East Syracuse came to life last month. High school
students filled the place with laughter, song
and sometimes solemnity.
This was the fourth FX Youth
Rally held in the Western Region of the diocese and
the theme of the day was ...
Church etiquette review
The Catholic Review
4/13/2006, by Suzanne Molino Singleton
BALTIMORE, Md. – When people are guests in someone’s home, they most likely practice their best manners and teach their children to do the same. If they were a guest in God’s house, their manners might increase tenfold.
It is easy to surmise how Jesus would behave in his Father’s house: he would ...
Extreme makeover
Catholic Press Association
4/7/2006, by Mary Iapalucci
RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (Catholic Press Association) - If it was a reality show, you’d call it “Extreme Family Makeover,” jokes former Catholic News Service graphic artist Tony DeFeo, about the changes to his life over the past year.
When DeFeo left his job with CNS last spring after 10 years and ...
'Weaving a Family' through unrealistic expectations
Catholic Online
3/29/2006, by Peggy Weber
EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass. - In this multifaceted contribution from her book Weaving a Family, author Peggy Weber looks at the challenge of expectations impacting the lives of families and offers a prayerful reflection an “Weaving lesson,” reminders and suggestions to help the reader better cope with ...
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