Climbing up from the bottom – Youth for Christ gives adolescents, young adults hand up
The Catholic Register
3/5/2007, by Sara Loftson
WINNIPEG, Man. (The Catholic Register) – At an early age Ian Garcia started doing drugs, drinking, partying and hanging out with the wrong crowd. Eventually his family disowned him. “I was at a point in my life where I was at the bottom of the bottom and I had nothing else to lose,” said Garcia, ...
Catholic family remembers U.S. Marine killed in Iraq as 'dad' first
Hawaii Catholic Herald
2/26/2007, by Anna Weaver
HONOLULU, Hawaii (Hawaii Catholic Herald) – Before he was deployed to Iraq this past August, Marine Corps Lt. Col. Joseph Trane McCloud made sure to spend a “Daddy Day” with each of his three children. He and son Hayden, 7, went to Hanauma Bay. He and 5-year-old Grace went bowling and had dinner ...
Uninvolved parents, Internet porn blamed for rise in abuse by youths
Our Sunday Visitor
2/21/2007, by Mary DeTurris Poust
HUNTINGTON, Ind. (Our Sunday Visitor) – Any kind of violence or sexual abuse against children is heartbreaking, but when the perpetrators of the crimes are children themselves, it takes the tragedy to a whole new level. We seem to be hearing about more of these cases lately, from the horrific ...
Pointers for parents when a child reports sex abuse
Catholic News Service
2/21/2007
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (CNS) – The news of a child’s sexual abuse can be shocking and parents may not know how to respond to the situation.
The "Teaching Touching Safety" program offers this summary of key guidelines to parents or other caring adults when a child reports having been improperly ...
Canadian Catholic News: Catholic ministers urged to avoid ‘superhuman’ trap, balance home, work, health
Catholic Online
2/19/2007, by Kiply Lukan Yaworski
SASKATOON, Canada (CCN/Prairie Messsenger) – Establishing healthy boundaries that balance work, home and health was the challenge recently placed before a group involved in parish, youth and diocesan ministry across the Diocese of Saskatoon. Finding a healthy balance can be a challenge to those in ...
UCAN: Thai youth to celebrate love on 'crazy' Valentine's Day
UCANews
2/13/2007
BANGKOK, Thailand (UCAN) – Sitting side by side, hand in hand, Masaaki and Kittima said they would hold hands all day long on Valentine's Day. The secondary-level students of St. John's International School in Bangkok told UCA News on Feb. 6 that they were excited looking ahead to Feb. ...
UCAN: Promote gender equality beginning with family, gov’t minister urges Catholics
UCANews
2/13/2007
KUPANG, Indonesia (UCAN) – Indonesia's minister for women empowerment recently called on Catholics to join in the government's program to promote gender equality, starting with the family. Speaking to about 300 participants at a Jan. 27 public forum, Meutia Hatta Swasono said that gender inequality ...
Young adults tell their own stories about life as a Catholic today
Catholic News Service
2/9/2007, by Nancy Frazier O'Brien
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Before participants in a Feb. 6 Woodstock Forum at Georgetown University in Washington heard from sociologists about how young adults see the Catholic Church and their role in it, they got to hear from some of the young people themselves.
Six spoke about the importance of the ...
'Dear Pope Benedict' – Catholic students invite pontiff to school
The St. Cloud Visitor
2/7/2007, by Sue Schulzetenberg
WADENA, Minn. (The St. Cloud Visitor) - If you invite him, he will come. Well, he might, anyway. That was the logic that filled the heads of children at St. Ann School in Wadena as they carefully formed petals with ink-covered fingertips on a special invitation destined for Vatican City. The ...
Dare to love, embrace it to change hearts, pope urges world’s youth
Catholic Online
2/6/2007
VATICAN CITY (Catholic Online) – Dare to love, to embrace the only force capable of changing the hearts of every human person and of cultures, Pope Benedict XVI urged the world’s young people. In a message released Feb. 5 for the 22nd World Youth Day to be observed in all dioceses on Palm Sunday, ...
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