Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz talks with host Reed Yadon about various topics on the new television program, Conversations. Available on television, radio, and via webcast or audio/video podcast. Click for links and more information. NEW: Also listen to Archbishop Kurtz praying the rosary. 

While it’s a favorite pastime of American youth to complain about school, homework and their parents’ rules, a handful of Assumption High School students have had the chance to seriously consider life without those things and have changed their way of thinking.

In the spring of 2007, students in a freshman geography class at Assumption learned from teacher Matthew Cope about the plight of young girls in Cambodia. The girls they learned about had few opportunities, little access to schools and were forced into the sex trade. 

Sheila Mattingly has been teaching in Catholic schools for 44 years. She spent two decades at the now-closed St. Francis of Assisi School in Loretto, Ky., and is still teaching first-graders at St. Joseph School in Bardstown, Ky. 

Marjorie Brown Glaser, a walking encyclopedia of nursing history in Louisville and other parts of the state, has helped to produce another book about a vital and caring industry. This book is called A Historical Review: St. Anthony Hospital School of Nursing.