PENNIES
FOR PERU — Fr.
Joe Hornacek, left, pastor of St. Anthony Parish
in Pewaukee, and Fr. Joe Uhen, pastor of Parroquia
Santísimo Sacramento in Piura, Perú,
receive jars of pennies from St. Anthony School
students Matthew Wendelberger and Jamie Winquist
at a school Mass Sept. 13. As part of a twinning
relationship between St. Anthony and the Peruvian
parish, children in the parish school and religious
education program raise money that provides breakfast
for school children in Piura. (Catholic Herald
photo by Sam Lucero)
Ronni Pruhs, a Milwaukee nurse, didn’t think twice
about taking her three children to South Africa in 1968
when she and her husband, Ron, a dentist, volunteered
as clinicians through the Catholic Medical Mission Board.
The family stayed until 1970, and Pruhs even gave birth
to their fourth child in Malawi.
By 1976 the family — which now included two more
children — headed to Brazil on another medical
mission through Project Hope. The couple’s oldest
son was in eighth grade, the youngest was 2 years old.
“The kids went to school there and learned Portuguese.
They just got around the city and kind of got a taste
for it,” Pruhs recalled.
Over the years, the Pruhs’ six sons accompanied
them on similar trips to Uganda, the Dominican Republic
and Haiti, helping their parents set up extraction clinics
or travel from village to village, treating residents’ teeth.
Pruhs remembered her parents and her husband’s
parents were anxious about their grandchildren traveling
to Africa. She herself worried about the boys getting
seriously sick or injured in countries that couldn’t
provide specialized care. Still, the couple wanted their
children with them. Part of the reason, she said, was
exposing them to people and places they would not normally
have encountered growing up in the United States.
Catholic
Herald Parenting is a supplement of the Catholic Herald
published eight times annually, September to May. It is
intended to help parents pass on the Catholic faith to
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