By KARA KOCZUR
Globe staff reporter
It’s a great gift to attend a Catholic school, Bishop R. Walker Nickless told students during a Catholic Schools Week Mass Feb. 4 at Sacred Heart Church in Sioux City.
“Tonight I want you to go home and thank your mom and dad for sending you to Catholic school,” he said. “Go home and hug them and they will be shocked, and tell them thank you for sending you to a Catholic school. Bishop told me to do that and so I have to do what the bishop says.”
Bishop Nickless is visiting various schools throughout the diocese for Catholic Schools Week, Jan. 31 – Feb. 6. On Feb. 1 he celebrated Mass at Le Mars Gehlen and plans to be at Fort Dodge St. Edmond and Algona Garrigan on Feb. 5.
The theme for CSW 2010 is “Dividends for Life.” During his homilies at the different locations, the bishop asked students what dividends were.
“When you invest in something, you want to get a dividend back,” he said. “So we’re investing in Catholic schools.”
The four dividends, or reasons, why parents send their children to Catholic schools are faith, knowledge, morals and discipline, he added.
See the Feb. 11 edition of The Catholic Globe for the full story.
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Globe staff reporter
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By KATIE LEFEBVRE
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Pointing to her husband, Leslee Unruh, a keynote speaker at the 16th annual Siouxland Interfaith Prayer Memorial, said she wasn’t pro-life until she met him.
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