Voiceless?

It is easy to feel that you have no voice. Does anyone really care what you believe? Does it seem as though your words, your values and your faith are meaningless in the grand scheme of things? Do you feel as though big government and big media control you and our culture?

At Saint Joseph's School we guide emerging voices and aspiring leaders to develop skills to speak for the voiceless and recapture the culture for Christian values, political morality, business ethics and respect for life from conception until natural death.

Our emerging leaders will utilize their faith in new ways through a variety of technologies that might puzzle their parents and grandparents (as well as their teachers!). Social networking sites, videos, e-publishing, podcasts and hundreds of new forms of electronic communication are already being utilized to promote the common good. Hundreds of Catholic college students and activists already organize to promote pro-life legislation, social justice and religious freedom by organizing with the power of viral messaging, media links and web-based connections with like-minded groups. The possibilities for good are limitless.

Our students need strong reading, writing and communication skills to change the culture. They need technology skills to have a presence in debating the issues of their day. The ability to link with peers around the globe to effect change that will protect life and infuse ethics and morality into political and economic decisions will precipitate positive change. We salute all the teachers who are helping students sharpen these very skills so the future can be captured for Christ.

It is my job to think about our students' future and I think they have the potential intellectual, academic and faith skills to abolish abortion in their lifetime. I believe they are developing the tools to create a fair and stable economy. I think their faith could inspire them to clean up the anemic values and sexual sludge that pollute television and movies. They have the faith, they are acquiring the knowledge and they love the tools of technology and communication.

Let's all do our part to change the world through the children of Saint Joseph's School. They are the voice. They are tomorrow's leaders. They will be the rebuilders of a culture that has forgotten how much it needs what Christ and His Church offer.