WAREHAM, MA — Last month, nine students from St. Patrick Parish traveled to Union Springs, Ala., to oversee a weeklong Vacation Bible School. After fundraising and accepting donations from members of the parish into a special fund, the group traveled down South. The first night saw them housed by two well-to-do local families before heading to a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood trailer park that would be the group’s base of operations. thier first impression of the park was a wake-up call.

“It was not like a trailer park around here. I mean, it’s set up that way with the streets and how the trailers are, but the trailers themselves were not the same,” she said. “They were very, very old and rundown and should have been decommissioned a long time ago. And within that trailer park there was a trailer that they called the Catholic Center. The Catholic Church owns their own trailer in the Hispanic community.  Read more here.

BRISBANE, AUS — Archbishop John Bathersby launched “Come, Walk in the Light” on Pentecost Sunday. This is an initiative designed to support and grow the faith of young people throughout Brisbane archdiocese.  He included a video message where he expressed his desire to “strengthen my relationship with you who are the Church of the present and the future”.  Read more here.