Southern Nebraska Register
Steve Sousek, a member of North American Martyrs Parish in Lincoln, will attempt a 24-hour run, to benefit RUNBORN, an entity supporting women and children in crisis, and unborn children.
Beginning at 8 p.m. Friday, July 25, Sousek will begin his 24-hour run on the track at Pius X High School in Lincoln. For the first time, he’s inviting other runners to participate in one of his events, as well.
Now in its fourth year, the Lincoln International F.C.’s Youth World Cup soccer camp is hosted by Lincoln International F.C. in partnership with Catholic Social Services. It teaches kids the fundamentals of soccer twice a week, while also promoting pride in their own backgrounds and respect for their neighbors.
Johnny Ray was sentenced to life in prison, plus 50 years, for a crime he committed at just 17 years old. In the silence of an empty room after his sentencing, his painful cries of regret and hopelessness were met by an unexpected voice—the voice of God, telling him to have faith. That moment began a journey. First through the support of a religious sister, then others, Johnny experienced a spiritual conversion that transformed his life. Now, no longer behind bars, he’s dedicated to inspiring faith and hope in those still incarcerated. He shares his incredible story on this episode of Hope in the Good Life.
By Katie Patrick
A couple of weeks ago, my daughter Keira and I spent a rare day with just the two of us. My brother, Father Caleb Hile, was about to be installed as the new pastor of St. Anthony Parish in Bruno and Ss. Peter and Paul in Abie. We had gone to visit him with my parents, and each of us was given tasks to help prepare the rectory and church for his installation, and for the 125th anniversary of St. Anthony Parish in Bruno.
By Katie Patrick
Last week, my husband and I took turns driving our 3-year-old twin daughters – Keira and Saoirse – to Craoi na Tire Studio of Irish Dance in Omaha for a beginner’s summer dance camp.
Since March, the twins have been asking for Irish music to be played as they dance “jigs” and “reels” around the house, having seen the dancers perform at the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade and at the Hooley, an annual celebration of Irish culture organized by the Omaha chapter of Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians. If Riverdance comes to mind as you read this, you’re not far off.
Devotion to the Sacred Heart is rooted in compassion—a deep awareness of the suffering of others, joined with the desire to relieve it. Recently, Catholic Social Services Imperial/St. Isidore Gift & Thrift and the Imperial community wholeheartedly answered the call to embrace the needs of others with compassion. Read all about it in our latest # HopeintheGoodLife newsletter (and learn how you can support their work and double your support through the Chase County Challenge!)
By Katie Patrick
When Francis Oleru boarded a plane in Nigeria with his pregnant wife and four children, he was stepping into the unknown. Without a prior visit, the medical laboratory scientist accepted a job at Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial, Neb. He knew America could offer his children the safety, security and opportunity that Nigeria couldn’t, and so with faith that God would provide, he and his family set off on their new adventure in rural southwest Nebraska.
Of all the places in America they could continue their medical careers, two men from Nigeria found themselves building new lives in Imperial—a small town in southwestern Nebraska, surrounded by farmland and prairie, and a world away from home. Discover how Francis Oleru and Aloysius Aleke came to embrace this rural community as their own, and how Catholic Social Services helped weave their two journeys into one shared new beginning.
By Katie Patrick
Because the poor were fed, clothed and sheltered at a personal sacrifice, the pagans used to say about the Christians, “See how they love each other.”
In our own day the poor are no longer fed, clothed, sheltered at a personal sacrifice, but at the expense of the taxpayers.
And because the poor are no longer fed, clothed and sheltered, the pagans say about the Christians “See how they pass the buck.”
These striking words from Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, are just as relevant today as when he first spoke them nearly a century ago.
