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I blogged about Bourgade’s journalism students earlier this year. The post highlighted individual and group awards.
Steven Torres, design and photography editor, won the “Free Spirit” award from the Freedom Forum. That meant $1,000 to further his education and a weeklong journalism conference with other top high school journalists around the country.
A reflection on the award [...]

 
In a recent issue of The Catholic Sun, I wrote about an upcoming golf tournament to support vocations. The money will mainly support current seminarians and provide gifts to priests come ordination day.
The same issue also featured a brief article about another golf tournament to support the forthcoming cancer shrine in Mesa. 
Turns out there’s several more benefit golf [...]

Sports drinks like Gatorade’s “Shine on” are full of sodium and potassium. The electrolytes help athletes replenish the minerals lost during competition.
Apparently, there’s something in sports drinks that makes Catholic school students shine on and off the playing field as well. I discovered this week that a third Catholic school athlete in the diocese was [...]

I’m expecting we’ll do a comprehensive video from the Catholic Tuition Organization’s April 24 breakfast for corporate donors next week. (Paul Mulligan sat down with me for an interview after the breakfast). For now, here’s a short and cute installment. It’s of Trinity Good, a first-grader at St. Gregory School, who gave a brief speech [...]

I’m not sure how we missed it — maybe because we’re still on “Bishop Wall” mode — but Pope Benedict XVI canonized five saints Sunday. Check out the Vatican’s video:

CNS reporter John Thavis gives a little more detail in his report on the canonization Mass: