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On Friday, January 18th through Wednesday,
January 23rd, Roncalli Catholic participated in the 2008 “March
for Life” Pilgrimage in Washington DC.
Seventeen students from Roncalli Catholic participated in the event
along with approximately 160 other students and their chaperones from the
Omaha Archdiocese. Specifically
represented were Roncalli Catholic, Skutt Catholic, and Marian High Schools
along with students from local rural parishes including Wakefield and
Emerson, Nebraska.
Students for Roncalli Catholic included (and as your name
is called please stand):
Freshmen
- Robbie
Hall, Acacia Jackson, Zach Thiel, and Coleman Lonergan
Sophomores – Jessica
Dickey, Sean Carney, Krista Gunder, & Dana Schnirl
Juniors - Jake Hoffman, Jordan Love,
Nick Harvey, Katie Wiley, Dominic Carney, Kelsey Beck, Angelica McGee, &
Amber Cox
Senior - Jon Keating.
And Special Thanks to Mrs. Annette Dieteman for serving
as one of our chaperones.
Highlights of the pilgrimage included:
- Mount
Saint Mary’s Seminary
- Gettysburg
War Memorial Park
- National
Shrine of Elizabeth Ann Seton
- National
Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes
- Basilica
of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
- Union
Station
- Korean
War Memorial
- Lincoln
Memorial
- Vietnam
War Memorial
- World
War II Memorial
- Holocaust
Museum
- National
Air and Space Museum
- Jefferson
Memorial
- Verizon
Center – Youth Rally & Mass
- And
“March for Life” to Capitol Hill
The video today shows just a brief part of our experience
but our overall purpose was to expose ourselves to the issue of Pro-life and
that the act of Abortion is wrong. During
our trip we learned life is a gift from God from conception.
And during our trip we experienced life:
with each other as classmates at Roncalli Catholic, with other students
in the Archdiocese of Omaha and with other adults.
We were exposed to times in our history where we have not treated life
with respect including times surrounding the Civil War and the Holocaust.
