Living Our Faith

Working together with new mission advancement initiative, our Catholic schools will be Alive in Christ!

The time for discussion is over, and the time for action has begun.

On Feb. 2, Archbishop Robert J. Carlson presented at John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Manchester his priorities for Catholic education in the Archdiocese of St. Louis and the steps to be taken to achieve them.

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Summary of the Alive in Chirst mission advancement initiative

Priorities of the Alive in Chirst mission advancement initiative

When the opportunity to help chaperone my son's pro-life club at St. Louis Priory School to the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. came along, I realized how many years had passed since I had last walked the streets of our nation's capital in witness to the cause for life.

Harry Bahr agrees that the situation in Haiti is "overwhelming," citing the poverty, the lack of clean water, the sickness and the devastating aftereffects of the 2010 earthquake. But that doesn't stop him or his fellow parishioners at Holy Redeemer in Webster Groves from returning each year to offer their help.

DENVER -- Providing prosthetic devices for amputees in Haiti is one of the Knights of Columbus initiatives that has connected Knights in the United States with victims of a major earthquake in the Caribbean nation.

At a news conference at the Knights' convention last summer, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson spoke about Healing Haiti's Children, a partnership with Project Medishare, whereby Haitians who have had limbs amputated as the result of injuries sustained in the January 2010 earthquake were given prosthetic limbs free of charge.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- The status of Haitian descendants born and raised in the Dominican Republic is drawing attention as they demand to be recognized as Dominican citizens.

A demonstration in front of government offices last month sought to call attention to the tens of thousands of people of Haitian descent whom human rights groups say have been left functionally stateless by a Dominican government policy that refuses them access to a copy of their birth certificate.

Without the birth certificate, they cannot receive an identity card.

WASHINGTON -- It took almost two years, but Haitian earthquake survivor Sonya Mallebranche has a place she can call home again.

It's only three rooms, making it less than perfect, Mallebranche admits, especially for four adults and three toddler grandchildren. But Mallebranche, 51, finds it far better than living in a tattered tent in the fetid, dusty camp known as Petite Place Cazeau alongside hundreds of others displaced by the powerful Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake that leveled much of the region around Port-au-Prince.