Arriving at the blogwatch, I am going it alone…

Amy Welborn: Looking for a good RCIA program in Columbia, SC? Need suggestions of short stories for a high-school Christian Literature class? Post your question, or reply, on Amy’s “Catholic Craig’s List” thread! A great idea and a fascinating thread.

“You’ve Got Confessions: An impromptu art project invited the public to share its secrets on postcards. The anonymous mailings may surprise you.” Newsweek article on PostSecret. Via Thunderstruck.

“Navahoax: Did a struggling white writer of gay erotica become one of multicultural literature’s most celebrated memoirists–by passing himself off as Native American?” Disturbing on a lot of levels. Via Agenda Bender.

And: Jesuits to open work-study school in DC.

…The Cristo Rey model has been hailed by many Catholic educators as a way to reverse the decline of parochial schools in inner cities and also give low-income students a way to earn private school tuition that their families cannot afford. …

Eight more Cristo Rey schools, including the one in Takoma Park and one in Baltimore, are planned over the next two years.

John P. Foley, a Jesuit educational missionary, created Cristo Rey’s first school in the Pilsen/Little Village section of southwest Chicago at the suggestion of management consultant Richard Murray. Foley, now president of the Cristo Rey network, has said that at the beginning, it was not clear how powerful an educational tool the work-study program would be. But Cristo Rey students in Chicago, almost all Hispanic and 93 percent low-income, saw the relevance of much of what they were learning in school when they started working for bankers and lawyers in Chicago, he said, and acquired skills that helped them find jobs to pay their ways through college.

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(Maybe if my private HS had done this, I’d be able to hold down a job….) Via the Club for Growth.