Novices in the news.

Today's issue of The Michigan Catholic, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Detroit, has a neat write-up on our current experiment at La Salette, prominently featuring Jon and Ryan and their respective classes. It's not surprising that the paper chose to focus on the kindergarten and the second grade, as playing music and drawing with kids probably makes for more appealing copy than, say, me urging the seventh graders to come up with modern versions of Jesus' parables ("How would you tell the Good Samaritan story today?"). In any event, the story is good publicity for us - and, more importantly, good publicity for La Salette, which (like many Catholic schools) could use a boost in enrollment. And so it goes. AMDG.