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Foolishness reigns at 2010 ICYC
By Michael Brown
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BOISE — It started with priests wearing wigs and gyrating to the band Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” to the acclaim of 1,400 teenagers, and ended with those teenagers dancing and singing “Shine Like the Sun” and “Look Like a Fool.” In short, it was the 2010 Idaho Catholic Youth Convention.
Some 1,400 teenagers from Idaho, Washington and Oregon danced, sang, listened, prayed and adored the Blessed Sacrament Feb. 26-28 in the Carley Center gym at Bishop Kelly High School. Many were enthusiastic returners from last year’s ICYC, and just as many were first timers.
The theme of the conference this year was “Look Like a Fool.” Mary Holder, a youth minister from St. Pius X Parish in Klamath, Ore., said Feb. 26 that 33 young people from her parish traveled eight hours by bus to attend the event, more than twice the number who attended in 2009. “They all came for the experience,” she said. “It was just amazing last year.”
The event this year featured Catholic rapper Righteous B, singer/songwriter Jackie Francois, the Ike Ndolo band and Idaho native and former professional football player Chris Horn. On Feb. 27, attendees were treated to a private screening of “The Human Experience,” a movie expected in theaters later this year.
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Bishop Kelly taps Raimondi for top post
By Michael Brown
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BOISE — Richard L. Raimondi, a retired executive from Hewlett Packard, was introduced Feb. 25 as the new president of Bishop Kelly High School.
He succeeds David K. Lachiondo who is retiring in July after serving five years in that position. Betsy Chumich, chairwoman of the Bishop Kelly Board of Governance, introduced Raimondi at a press conference in the school library.
Raimondi retired in 2008 as a vice president and general manager of the North American Graphic Arts Business of Hewlett Packard’s Imaging and Printing Group. He had spent almost 30 years at the company, beginning in 1979 fresh out of graduate school as a cost accountant. He rose quickly into management positions, leading divisions for several years in Palo Alto, Cal., and Barcelona.
He has also been active in the community, serving on the boards of the United Way, Boise City Arts Commission, St. Luke’s Hospital and the Treasure Valley YMCA.
At the press conference, Raimondi said he was “humbled and honored” to be following Lachiondo in the position. Raimondi is no stranger to the school. He and his wife Georgiann, who attended the press conference, sent all three of their children to Bishop Kelly, including a daughter, Emily, who graduated last year. He has also served on the board overseeing the BK Foundation.
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Speaker urges parishes to reach out to all youths
By Michael Brown
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BOISE — Today’s parishes should be places where young people and their families feel welcome, especially when there may be a crisis in the family, said Benedictine Father Brendan Moss during Priests’ Assembly Feb. 10.
After a review of the U.S. bishops’ 1997 document on youth ministry “Renewing the Vision: A Framework for Catholic Youth Ministry,” Father Moss took a question from Father Gerald J. Funke, pastor of St. Paul Parish in Nampa. Father Funke asked how to best serve young people in trouble, even those on the fringes of parish life.
“If you have families in your parishes, then you have troubled youths in your parishes,” he said. “Are you talking to them?”
Father Moss, director of Enrollment and Pastoral Formation, St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in St. Meinrad, Ind., spoke to those gathered for a priests’ assembly Feb. 8-11 on priestly ministry to youth and young adults, held at Nazareth Retreat Center. He told them the parish should be one of the first places to which families turn when threatened. “If they know that your parish is a place of support where they can go when they are in trouble, they will come.”
He encouraged priests to visit young people from their parishes even if the young people are in state detention or a treatment facility. He urged priests to establish a rapport with them, because when they are released, they are likely to return to the parish.
If a teenager in the parish becomes pregnant, does the parish make them feel supported or embarrassed about it, he asked. “We can’t be ashamed of them. We have to welcome them.” |
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