'Live it" program at Cardinal Stritch

This is the link to the article in the Blade that ran the same day as the article about Fr. Leyland's parish. If this link doesn't work, you can access it by accessing the page from the other article, and click on religion at the left.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060902/NEWS10/609020353

The article describes the "Live it" program being introduced by Cardinal Stritch to increase the enrollment at their high school. They seek to do this not by adding on a wing, or building a new football stadium, or other means of spending.

Instead, they intend to build enrollment by building the local parishes from which their students come. They intend to make a Catholic education affordable and available to more students by encouraging participation in their local parishes. In encouraging more active participation by parishioners in their local parishes, they hope to encourage more interest in a Catholic secondary education.

As referenced in the article, this has been succesful in theDiocese of Wichita, Kansas, and personally I have seen a similar idea work for another Catholic high school.

Building the spiritual lives of the faithful, allowing them to be a part of the renewal, now isn't that a refreshing outlook?