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How to Love

Happy Easter, everyone! A few weeks ago at Mass, my housemates and I and many of you heard the Gospel story of the Prodigal Son, which in my opinion is...

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Chomp Chomp! Chomp Chomp!

One recent Thursday evening I found myself surrounded by people imitating sharks and cheering as bodies slammed against plastic walls. My community had decided to venture out to a San...

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9 Lives

I was thinking about it last week, and I figured that I have lived four separate lives/realities in 2013. From January to April, I was an ambitious undergraduate psychological researcher...

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The St. Anthony's Miracle

At the end of the 90s, Milwaukee Catholic schools were struggling. Attendance was down, and schools were on the verge of closing. One of the schools, St. Anthony's on the...

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A Process in Learning to Let Go

Contrary to what I expected, becoming a teacher has been a process of learning how to lose control. Maybe it would be better to say that it has been a...

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The Mother of Catholic Education

The 20 Catholic School Stories You Should Know series will tell inspiring stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things for the cause of Catholic education. Kicking it off - St...

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A Day in My Shoes

One of the things I like the most about teaching is that no two days are alike. Different experiences will always present themselves and I will never know what they...

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Giving Thanks

Written by: Eric Prister On a day when we take a step back and give thanks, and after visiting fourteen cities, seventeen schools, and thousands of children over the past...