From timid freshman to confident graduate
Kailey Barthel (Submitted photo courtesy of Barthel family) Last fall, my husband Mark and I drove our daughter Kailey to [...]
Chalkboards go way of dinosaurs
MENOMONEE FALLS — Students at St. Anthony Parish School have discovered a newfound love of learning, thanks to donors’ funds.
Reegan Chisholm, left, and Jack Griese work on the SMART Board in Cindy Clarke’s fourth grade classroom at St. Anthony School, Jan. 19. All of the classrooms in the Menomonee Falls school have SMART Board technology. (Catholic Herald photo by Juan C. Medina/www.photoventures.com)
St. Anthony, a school for students in 4-year-old kindergarten to eighth grade, entered a new era of technology more than a year ago when a SMART Board was installed. Created by Canadian company SMART Technologies, SMART Boards are a modern version of the chalkboard. The devices give students an opportunity to learn and demonstrate knowledge interactively.
Economy takes toll on Catholic education
Second graders in Vicki Jasper’s class at Rosemary School, Fredonia, Mackenna Schueller, Emily Sanders, Isabella Clark and Jenna Schueller, work on an art project, Jan. 22. In an effort to help the small Catholic school, Holy Rosary Parish, Fredonia, held a special collection last August to offer financial assistance to school families. (Catholic Herald photo by Sam Arendt)
Calling all movers (That means you, Amy)
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Something else for Father to do
Most priests will tell you that they already have enough to do. But in his World Communications Day message, Pope [...]
Why we’re talking about sex
Who ever thought that myfaith would publish a sex issue?
When I was a teenager, I watched many TV shows that depicted how “normal” young adults lived a sexual life. Not only was hooking up depicted as normal, but healthy as well, as long as condoms and birth control were readily available.
Live your faith proudly during stormy times
Happy 2010, myfaithers! Though it’s exciting to start off a new year, it’s also hard to face the reality that the whole world is not experiencing that same feeling of a new beginning.
Prayers, time and service in the wake of the Tuesday, Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, are much needed right now. That’s a wake-up call to remember that even when things seem so calm in the Milwaukee area, “storms,” whether physically caused by mother nature or spiritually, mentally and emotionally by problems within our homes, relationships or jobs, are disrupting lives everywhere. Living in a world with a “me” and “what’s-in-it-for-me?” focus complicates life even more.
Sex: What the church teaches and why it should matter to you
Sex. We see it glamorized in movies, trivialized on TV, talked about by friends and sometimes avoided all together by our parents. For many young people growing up in the Catholic Church, the sentence “Don’t do it before you’re married” may be well known, even though the reasons behind it are not as clear-cut. However, the Catholic Church does have valuable reasons as to why remaining sexually pure before marriage is not only healthy and normal, but logical as well.
How to survive in an R-rated world
R-rated movies with pornographic content, perverse language and immoral behavior help movie theaters set box office records.
Songs about getting “crunk” and having one-night stands bolt to the number one spot on top 40 lists. From the media standpoint, and with the circulation of labels describing the young adult generation as a “hookup culture” the world can seem R-rated. How can young adults stick to and live out their faith in a world that doesn’t jibe with Catholicism?
St. Michael Parish explains God’s Call to youth
In an effort to close the gap between religious and secular life, the youth group at St. Michael Parish, Milwaukee [...]