Rights and Responsibilities

Rights and responsibilities are two rules we should constantly help us guide us. But, how can we do this? The rights to our own decisions or needs in life such as health, education, work, food and shelter, are a few examples of the qualities ever human being should have. We also need to respect other people's decision. The decision of one's life should not be controlled by another. The option of free choice is not something everyone has had over the years. For example, slaves and prisoners of war have no decision in the life they live. They don't have the option to education, work and certainly not shelter. The world should be just in all ways including the way we choice our path and the way we fallow out our dreams. It's the only way the world can be original and unique.


To look after each other and follow the law of God is the responsibility of the world. We need to take it upon ourselves to teach other people the things they are unable to experience for themselves. Like our religion and the education we take for granted. We have the responsibility of always making sure life is fair and complete as your own life. Just like the great commandment, "Love your neighbor as yourself."
-Lillian

Options for the Poor and Vunerable

Bogota, Colombia, has a population of 8,566,926 people. Many of them whom struggle to live and work in Bogota's hard environment. What do I mean by hard? Well, Colombia is filled with gangs, drugs, and even kidnappings everyday. So how do you get away from all the danger? Run away, maybe move? How about live in a sewer? During the 1990's, the Colombian Cold War was at its turning point. Death Squads began terrorizing or killing the Colombian citizens. Which is one of the reasons the kids decided to live in the pipes in the first place, and to get away from the stress above ground. The story of the sewer kids became popular in Europe and American, camera crews and reporters came rushing into the streets of Bogota. The story was popular for a awhile but soon died down like any other news story, making people think the problem was solved. But, about 6 months after the story became popular the death squads had begun coming into the pipes and shooting or dousing the kids in gasoline. Colombia's government tried to control the death squads but, police men and soldiers were partly responsible for the killings. So, the problem of the sewer kids just lingered, while bigger stories caught the attention of the public.

The world is filled with the poor and vunerable from Africa to South America, even some in the United States. The point is, the world needs help and everybody can do something. We could donate supplies or even become missionaries in third world countries. Everybody has a problem and everybody could do something to resolve these problems through God.
-Lillian

Sewer home to vagrant Columbian kids

Care for Gods Creation

By caring for God’s creation we are saving the environment from global warming. This is very important for us and generations to come. Also we will use solidarity to care for God’s creation. We can do this by cleaning the beaches and the water for fish to live. If we do not do anything and just pollute the earth there won’t be an earth. We have to save the earth from global warming. I think that we are doing an awesome job for trying to save our planet. We have come up with so many ideas to save the world. Also if we live out these ideas then we will make this planet save and enjoyable for many years to come. Some of these ideas that you can do at your house are the three R’s reduce, reuse, recycle. By reducing the amount of water we use we are helping the planet. By using reusable water bottles we are saving the planet. By recycling we will help the earth. As you might already know we can recycle many different things like paper, plastic, aluminum cans, and there are many more things we can recycle. So go out in your community and make a difference.

-Michael Remich

We all one big family

We are all one big family no matter what race or ethnic we are stuck here together and we have to deal with it we can't change that. Solidarity is we are all one family we responsible for each other. If one race dies out then eventually all the other races will die out also that is an example of solidarity. Do you see what solidarity is we have to care for each other. Would you rather have nobody care for you? In solidarity every one cares for one another no one is left out. This is solidarity caring for one another and not leaving anyone out. With out solidarity the world would be thrown into chaos and confusion. Basically the world would fall apart. We need solidarity in our lives its very important. We stick together no matter what. We need to work together to fix problems that could harm us. We need to stand up for each other. With out each other we would not survive in the world. We share everything but we don't always get along in the world we don't need to be friends but we need to get along in times of trouble.
- Derek Tomey

What is Happening in the Church?

You have probably heard of the "mishaps" in the church well the good lord Jesus Christ created us all with dignity. Why are the priest taking the children's human dignity away from them. A Mexican priest is faced with dozens of accusations of sex abuse. Priest teach us about human dignity but what they are forgetting that it also applies to them. They need to remember this they teach this to us and it applies to them so they need to cut it out. If they can't stop the mishaps then they need to leave the church because we are not going to put up with this crap. We need to respect people because we are all one big family in the eyes of god. The priest who are doing this need to turn them self's in. If this keeps up we might not go to mass we have things that need to be done but we take the time to respect the lord but we just might not go if the kids are not safe. If this does not stop then the government might shut down all churches. This needs to stop they might be kids but they have dignity to.
-Derek Tomey

Abuse Scandal in the Church