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CUA’s new president stresses ‘intellect and virtue’
Thursday, 07 July 2011 16:00
When people ask John Garvey — who just finished his first year as president of Catholic University of America — why it’s important for a person of faith to be teaching organic chemistry, he has a ready reply:“My answer is that, ‘You have the wrong idea of your vocation as a teacher if you think that the only thing that you’re doing is teaching the periodic table. You need to concern yourself with the formation of your students as people, both inside and outside the classroom, every bit as much as you do with the formation of their intellect.’”
Efforts underway to rebuild St. John Vianney Church
Wednesday, 06 July 2011 09:22
Charred walls and burnt remains of St. John Vianney Church are still very much part of the landscape for parishioners and staff at the Hacienda Heights parish. New St. Thomas library: Where ‘the world meets the world’
Tuesday, 05 July 2011 13:43
It used to be that St. Thomas the Apostle students had to go to the school’s basement to read the few books the institution carried. No more.On June 10 a brand new library featuring $10,000 worth of books was officially opened during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, to the joy of the whole K-8 school community celebrating its first year in a state-of-the-art building at 15th Street and Normandie Avenue.
‘I never thought I would have something in common with them’
Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:00
Prison ministry is an unchartered and sometimes “scary” world for many. So it was for Jeanne Pieper and Paul McMahon. Despite being raised by devout Catholic parents who instilled in their children the importance of service to others, and being educated in Catholic schools that encouraged a hands-on approach to Catholic social teachings, fears and stereotypes kept them away from the ministry to the incarcerated, until different events slowly propelled a change in their mindset and in their attitude.
In Little Tokyo: A testimony to faith and resilience
Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:00
During the last weekend of June, the Youth Group at St. Francis Xavier Chapel in Little Tokyo took a trip to the Sierra Nevada mountains for some camping fun. On their way home, the group stopped at Manzanar Internment Camp not far from Lone Pine.
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