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Available Right NowA special transformation sets the stage for schoolchildren to join the Catholic faithIt’s another Thursday, and Ruth Hittel is once again immersed in a dramatic transformation that reflects one of the main principles that guides her life: “Never give up.” It’s an attitude that she wants the 240 children at Holy Cross Central School in Indianapolis to embrace—students whose lives are touched by many challenges, including the reality that most of them live at or below the poverty level. (Page 1) Former ‘A Promise to Keep’ mentor starts program in IowaDeviney Benson looked at the roughly 170 high school students who sat where she sat just five years prior. “Looking out at all of you, I’m feeling really sentimental because this is like looking back into my past and my journey in A Promise to Keep,” said Benson, 23. She stood before the crowd as the keynote speaker for the annual A Promise to Keep (APTK) chastity program luncheon on April 20 at the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center in Indianapolis. For more than 20 years, the APTK program has helped more than 10,000 archdiocesan teenagers not just keep their promises to live chaste lives, but it’s been helping those same teens mentor more than 100,000 junior high students to do the same. (Page 3) Graduations set for Catholic high schools in the archdioceseAs another school year comes to a close, 1,357 students are preparing to graduate this spring at Catholic high schools across the archdiocese. For the graduates and their families, it will be a time of looking back—and looking forward—with a mixture of pride, relief, nostalgia and celebration. It will also be a time to consider the blessings of a Catholic education, and to thank the people who have made a difference in a high school senior’s life, says Gina Fleming, superintendent of Catholic schools for the archdiocese. (Page 5)
Web-only featuresOnline survey for pastoral needs assessment available in English, Spanish and Burmese on May 1Beginning on May 1, Catholics across central and southern Indiana can complete an online survey to help provide whoever is appointed the new shepherd of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis a clear picture of the local Church. The survey, which will be available in Burmese, English and Spanish, is part of the archdiocesan pastoral needs assessment that Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin commissioned shortly before his ministry in the archdiocese ended and he was installed as the archbishop of Newark, N.J. |
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