Helping the Less Fortunate

In today's class, my students get a choice.

They will get to choose between five topics which relate to the clergy of the Middle Ages.  One of the topics focuses on the subject of the current Pope.  Pope Francis is being referred to as the Rock Star Pope after his debut on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.  However, a further study of Pope Francis, reveals not only his ability to reach millions of Catholics in the 21st century, but also his mission of helping the poor.

Students who choose to read about Pope Francis, will explore worldwide organizations whose focus is on solving the poverty crisis.  I suggest that they begin by exploring a site that many are familiar with, toms.com.  Through this exploration, my hope is that these students will begin to feel a moral tug at their hearts.

Perhaps then they will make their own choice.  A choice to consider how lucky their lives are as compared to the millions of poor children and families living around the globe .

So what who cares about Cathedrals, monks, religion, and Catholicism? Even though they seem like completely different subjects, they aren’t. All four subjects are related to the religion Catholic. Now some people may be thinking, how are monks related to the Catholic church? Monks were actually the highly religious people of the middle ages that had devoted their lives to the study the Catholic religion. Cathedrals were the place of worship for the Catholic’s. The Cathedrals were building that were built just for the worship of God. When you think middle ages most people think about the castles, kings, and queens, however, that is not the cathedrals were more important than any king or queen. Not many people know what the world Catholicism means, I know I didn’t know. Catholicism is a broad term used for describing the specific traditions in the Christian churches. Now why don’t you ask yourself, so what who cares about Cathedrals, monks, religion, and Catholicism? What is your answer now?