Eight-year-old Lily Vavrusa dreams of becoming a television journalist, and thanks to a new educational program at St. Elizabeth School in Alice, Lily is already living her dream.

For a middle school classroom on a Friday, Janida De La Rosa’s class is incredibly peaceful and focused. The room is full of students sitting, quietly chatting and working with colorful hoops and yarn in their hands. They are all looming. Not for a home-economics class, but for a religion class.

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Knights of Columbus is giving a 30-day supply of food to 12,000 displaced or formerly displaced Christian families in northern Iraq to coincide with Christmas.

St. Mary’s Mission in Robstown celebrated its annual Christmas Pageant, Christmas is in the Heart, on before the Vigil Mass on Dec. 24, 2017. The children and youth of St. Mary’s participated in the pageant.

“Christianity is the only religion where you grow-up to be children,” an interesting insight coming from one of my graduate theology priest professors. Then there is the other side of the coin, “All grown ups were once children . . . but only a few of them remember it,” so wrote Antonio de Saint-Exupery in his classic tale, The Little Prince.