August 21, 2007

Catholic school guarantees tuition refund if students aren’t reading

By Kristin Lukowski
Catholic News Service
DETROIT (CNS) — Our Lady of La Salette Catholic School in the Detroit suburb of Berkley is making a guarantee: First-graders will be reading at a second-grade level by the end of the year. If not, parents can ask for a full tuition refund.
It’s an idea that came to came to [...]

August 21, 2007

Priest says all in central Utah want to aid miners families, rescuers

By Barbara Stinson Lee
Catholic News Service
HUNTINGTON, Ind. (CNS) — Father Donald E. Hope, pastor of a mission church near the mine where six miners remained trapped, said that wherever he goes, people ask, “What can we do for the families of the trapped miners?”
In locations from the parishes and missions of central Utah to its [...]

August 21, 2007

Today (08.21.07)

   ANDREWS — Installation of Rev. Joey Faylona, new pastor at Our Lady of Lourdes, 6:30 p.m. Bishop Michael Pfeifer to preside.
NECROLOGY
Deacon William Callan (1988)
Today’s Readings
Judges 6:11-24
Psalm 85:9, 11-14
Matthew 19:23-30
Today’s Headlines from CNS
U.S.
Program aims to help children recover from Katrina-related trauma
WASHINGTON– Schoolchildren in the New Orleans area suffering emotionally from the effects of Hurricane Katrina [...]