Mount Carmel School announced that its students fared very well in recently administered SAT-10 and College Board AP national standardized tests. The results show significant improvement in all subjects across all grade levels. On average, students performed at or above the 50th percentile on the SAT-10 and improved from previous years. For the complete 2018
Earlier this month, Bishop Ryan P. Jimenez announced that Social Justice Commission of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa would publish articles that share Catholic social teachings on several issues that are of interest and concern to voters and candidates alike as the November 2018 elections approach. These articles are not meant to direct voters to
Pope Saint John Paul II defines the common good as, “the sum of those conditions of social living whereby people are enabled more fully and more readily to achieve their own perfection.” There are many elements in society that contribute to the well-being of its members. These elements reflect the various aspects of the human
“When we deal with each other, we should do so with the sense of awe that arises in the presence of something holy and sacred.” -Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI This quote is highlighted in this week’s column by the Diocese’s Social Justice Commission on the subject of economic justice. Take some time to consider:
Someone shared the story about a person who joined a support group for procrastinators. Know what? They haven’t met yet. In John’s Gospel 6:24-35, Jesus was kind of disappointed over the people who were following him when he said, “ Amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you’ve seen signs
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a.10ab Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun Rebelasion Mababa i templun Yu’us gi langit, ya mali’i’ i Kahun Kuntråta guihi. Dispues umannuk un dångkulu yan misteriosu gi langit. Iståba un palåo’an, minagågagu ni atdao ya iståba i pilan gi papa’ i addeng-ña yan kinirorona ilu-ña ni dossi na puti’un.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Building on the development of Catholic Church teaching against capital punishment, Pope Francis has ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person” and to commit the church to working
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Like the ancient Israelites, Christians today also can fall into the temptation of creating their own idols when difficulties and uncertainties arise, Pope Francis said. “To escape precariousness human nature looks for a ‘do-it-yourself’ religion. If God does not show himself, we create a tailor-made god,” the pope said Aug. 8
CHICAGO (CNS) — Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, speaking during an Aug. 2 panel discussion, described how Catholic teaching on the death penalty has developed and stressed that putting people to death — even criminals who are certainly guilty of terrible acts — makes it seem that the God-given right to life is conditional. He
OLDENBURG, Ind. (CNS) — Although women religious — once synonymous with Catholic education — have been disappearing from U.S. classrooms in recent decades, many Catholic schools are taking extra steps to make sure that even as these sisters age or their numbers decrease, the charisms that infused the schools they founded will not be lost.
