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The impact of work and prayer

Thirteen years after her death, and as the 100th anniversary of her birth approaches, the impact of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta's work and prayer is still felt throughout the archdiocese and throughout the world.

Relics visit shows Blessed Teresa still has strong
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'Mother Teresa: Seeing the Face of Jesus' plays in film
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Archdiocesan News Briefs | September 3, 2010

Backpack blessing Father Donald Henke of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary gave a blessing to children for “Blessing of the Backpacks Sunday” at Mass Aug. 22 at Immacolata Church in Richmond Heights. The event was intended to build a stronger relationship between the parish and the school. The blessing was given after two Masses, and afterward the congregation was invited to visit Immacolata School. Bringing school families, parishioners and grandparents to the school helped them gain a greater appreciation for the benefits of a Catholic education.

Anger management

Robert Furey, a professional counselor and Review columnist, will be the guest speaker at the First Tuesday Pro-Life Speaker Series at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7, at St. Peter Parish, 215 N. Clay Ave. in Kirkwood. Furey will speak on the topic of anger management, how it can serve a greater good and how its destructive forces can be minimized. A reception will follow.

Festa di Santa Fara

The 11th annual Festa di Santa Fara will be...

Image Gallery | Flooding challenges life in Pakistan

Estimates of the number of people affected by severe flooding in
Pakistan that began in late July range from 16 million to 20 million.
Catholic Relief Services reports that the floods in northern Pakistan
were sudden and violent. The water cut 100-foot-wide and 40-foot-high
gashes out of mountainsides. Water delivery systems, roads, bridges,
people’s land and more were destroyed by the sudden force of the water.
Entire communities are displaced in the south, but their land, although
damaged, will be there after the floodwaters go down. Catholic...

'Mother Teresa: Seeing the Face of Jesus' plays in film festival in India

Joseph Kenny | jkenny@stlouisreview.com

Children's video goes from St. Louis to India

Surprised, but definitely pleased.

David Mead of Creative Communications for the Parish in Fenton was awed by the news that a children's video he produced 12 years ago was chosen to be part of the Mother Teresa International Film Festival in India, Aug. 26-29.

"It's very exciting to know — my goodness, this made it into the hands of people on the other side of the world," Mead said last week. "You never know how these things are going to reach people."

Organizers of the film festival...

Woman religious doctor makes strides with Natural Family Planning in Taiwan

Sister Arlene Te, a religious of the Society Devoted to the Sacred Heart and a family medicine doctor in Tapiei, Taiwan, visited Aug. 27 with Emily Joost, right, a Creighton Model FertilityCare practitioner intern, at the Department of FertilityCare Services at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur. Pictured at center is Diane Daly, director of the archdiocesan Office of Natural Family Planning. Joost, who lives in Belleville, Ill., has been corresponding with Sister Arlene via the Internet as she undergoes training to become a practitioner. Sister Arlene is in St. Louis to have an on-site visit with Joost. The woman religious then will travel to Omaha, Neb., later this week for the 25th anniversary celebration of the Pope Paul VI the Study of Human Reproduction.

Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@stlouisreview.com

With a high abortion rate, easy access to artificial reproductive technology and a low Catholic population, Taiwan wouldn't seem like a place where natural family planning would be embraced.

But Sister Arlene Te, a member of the Sisters of the Society Devoted to the Sacred Heart, is showing that's quite the contrary. The family medicine doctor, who practices at Cardinal Tien Hospital in Taipei, said she has observed a growing interest in NFP among couples who are trying to achieve a pregnancy.

Sister Arlene was in St. Louis last week to meet with a student she is coaching as...

Before the cross | We must keep our Catholic schools growing

Archbishop Robert J. Carlson greeted Sister Deloris of the Immaculate Heart before he celebrated Holy Mass Saturday in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the first profession of vows for Sister Deloris of the Immaculate Heart and Sister Magdalen of St. Jerome, both members of the Contemplative Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Florissant. In the background is Father Robert Szydlowski, senior associate at St. Martin de Porres Parish in Hazelwood.

Archbishop Robert J. Carlson

In January when I published my vision for Catholic schools, I wrote: "We cannot be content with the status quo or, worse, with declining enrollments in our schools. To truly be Alive in Christ our schools must be vibrant centers of evangelization and missionary activity. Promoting growth is not optional — no matter how difficult the challenges."

I know the challenges are enormous. The demographics seem to be against us. Even the largest Catholic school in our archdiocese must prepare for the day when its numbers begin to decline. Given this reality, how do keep our schools growing?...