As a part of “Movember” here at Catholic Memorial we celebrated a Campus Ministry Knight Day where we took a day off of classes to promote Men’s Health as a school. During the opening assembly, four faculty members presented talks which shared a personal experience of becoming or being a man of faith and character.
For the last ten years, Holy Name Medical Center has run Hôpital Sacré Coeur in Milot, Haiti. Each year, during the Christmas Season, Holy Name holds drives for clothes and toys that are sent down to children in the Milot community.
On Saturday, November 16, twenty All Hallows students, accompanied by Brother Jim Hamilton, participated in an advocacy day at Joyce Kilmer and Mullally Parks, which are adjacent to All Hallows. The day was sponsored by "The Bronx is Blooming," (BIB) a non-profit group that works with local volunteers and the NYC Parks Department to bring improvements to the Bronx parks.
Between September 20th and 27th, more than 4,500 protests in 150 countries were held to demand government action on climate change. These events were part of the School Strike for Climate Movement organized by climate activities Greta Thunberg.
Over the last two years, Haiti has unfortunately suffered from another stretch of political unrest and violence which has caused more bloodshed and heartache for a country already ravaged by a 2010 earthquake.
During the first three weeks of November, schools from across the ERCBNA Province traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas to learn about immigration and serve at various agencies connected with serving and advocating for recent immigrants.
