Straight talk from Mike Rowe as he explains why our country’s focus must be on training our young people for trades rather than pushing them into a college degree they may never be able to use.
“We’ve got 7.2M men not participating in the workforce, and not looking for work.
We have $1.7 T in student loan debt on the books.
We’ve got 7.6M positions that don’t require a 4 yr degree, and yet we keep lending money to kids who are never going to be able to pay it back; to train them for jobs that don’t exist anymore.
If we want to close the skills gap,
we need to make a more persuasive case.”
This is one of the greatest photos in Catholic history.
Despite his greatness, Fulton Sheen had been ostracized and cast away by the powers that be in the American Church by the time he was an old man. When Pope John Paul II came to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1981, Sheen was relegated to a far off side section.
As everyone was applauding and greeting the pope, he kept looking around, and finally asked: “Where’s Fulton?”
The pope embraced Fulton and said: “You have written and spoken well of the Lord Jesus Christ. You are a loyal son of the Church!"
This makes me cry with love.
Soon-to-be Blessed Fulton Sheen…Pray for us. 🙏