November 2007 Monthly Newsletter

EXTENSION: November 2007

With prayer and cultivation, the sisterhood still calls

Two young women explain how a dynamic Newman center in Missouri helped guide them in their vocation discernment and decision to enter religious communities.... >>Read More

November Hidden Hero - Sister Frances Vista, D.C.

A diminutive but dynamic presence, Sister Frances Vista, D.C., has built nothing short of a food co-operative in Tuba City, Arizona, where she helps put together enough provisions for a week for Hopi, Navajo, and Paiute Native Americans at a cost of only $25 per box. But with gasoline prices going through the roof, Sister Frances is finding it more and more difficult to travel to the food distributors to pick up the discounted food.... >>Read More

Latest News From Catholic Extension

At Holy Rosary Church in Lander, Wyoming, the doors are so warped and rotted they won't even close properly -- and a cold Wyoming winter is coming on. In Booker, Texas, the cruets at St. Peter's Church used to hold the water and altar wine at Mass are stained and cracked. And priests at St. James Church in Bly, Oregon, are still using the same vestments and altar cloths that the parish started with in 1959. These are just a handful of the wishes and needs of some of America's mission parishes that are featured on the Catholic Church Extension Society's 2007 Christmas Wish List....>>Read More

Short Story Contest for High School Students 

EXTENSION Magazine's Short Story Contest for High School Students co-chaired by celebrated novelist Mary Higgins Clark, is underway and accepting submissions.  The contest is designed to encourage high school students to think and write about their Catholic Faith and to acquaint them with the work of missionaries operating in our own country. Students are asked to write a fictional story inspired by one of the missionaries, mission churches, seminarians or mission programs supported by Catholic Extension.... >>Read More