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Shannon Rowbury, who was a standout athlete when she attended San Francisco's Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory High School, is bound for Beijing.
: Jul 23, 2008
Wonder and awe, tradition and novelty were combined July 17 as Pope Benedict XVI shared a 45-minute boat ride through Sydney Harbor, chatting with a handful of young people before formally addressing thousands of them.
: Jul 17, 2008
In brilliant winter sunshine the old docklands at Barrangaroo became a moving sea of national flags unfurling above the heads of the 150,000 pilgrims who had come from different corners of the earth to celebrate one faith and liturgy.
: Jul 15, 2008
World Youth Day officially kicked off July 15 with an opening Mass celebrated by Sydney Cardinal George Pell before an estimated 140,000 people.
: Jul 15, 2008
What's being considered Australia's largest-ever barbecue is being planned for July 16 when World Youth Day 2008 links with Rotary Australia to serve lunch to more than 120,000 pilgrims at 200 locations around Greater Sydney.
: Jun 10, 2008
Attaining world peace is like trying to grab a rainbow, said Connor Fehrenbach, a third grader at St. Mary School in West Chicago.
When children glimpse the colorful object bending through the clouds in the sky, they are drawn to it and want to somehow reach it. “But, they just can’t catch up to it,” said the insightful 9-year-old boy.
: Apr 23, 2008
Valentine’s Day has been called a Hallmark holiday—a day when people express their love by sending cards to those they care about.
Showing someone you care can require a lot more effort than purchasing a greeting card or a bouquet of flowers. A group of Darien Cub Scouts donated a Sunday afternoon to show residents at the Carmelite Carefree Village retirement home how much they care. The scouts showed up Feb. 3 to play games and interact with the senior residents.
: Feb 14, 2008
Lisa Duffy of Holy Family Parish in Shorewood and Alexandra Fedosenko of Annunciation Byzantine Church in Homer Glen recently told the Catholic Explorer that serving meals at Daybreak Shelter in Joliet among other JCA humanitarian efforts started them on a path that led to mission work in Mexico. They took a break from their work Feb. 1 to discuss their experiences during a telephone conversation.
: Feb 13, 2008
Though it might not have been midnight in Bethlehem, it was definitely bitter cold when the eighth grade students at St. Mary School in West Chicago reenacted the birth of Jesus twice on the evening of Dec. 2 outside their school.
: Dec 10, 2007
It has been a while since Joliet Catholic Academy fans waited for their state championship football team to arrive on campus with the state championship trophy in hand. The Class 6A team had a bit of a dry spell, considering it won five state titles from 1999-2004.
: Dec 1, 2007
While most people were making last minute preparations for the Thanksgiving holiday, a group from Lewis University in Romeoville traveled to Fort Benning in Georgia to join a nationwide protest of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
: Nov 30, 2007