Congratulations, Vanessa and Michael! The new proud parents welcomed baby Liam last week!

William Joseph Nicholas-Schmidt was born on Tuesday April 24, 2012 at 11:38am, weighing 8lbs 15ozs.

Vanessa will be away on Maternity leave until March 2013.

Filling in for Vanessa, during her absence, is a familiar face… Kelly Bourke! (Kelly took care of Faith Connections while Vanessa was on study leave in 2010/2011)

On April 23 2012, Holocaust survivor Vera Schiff talked about her personal experiences in the Theresienstadt concentration camp and what it meant to "Spiritually Resist" the dehumanizing conditions of a Nazi concentration camp.

The Catholic Register writes, "Most 16-year-olds worry about getting good grades and maintaining friendships. Vera Schiff’s main concern was to stay alive. Schiff shared her story to an audience of young adults at an April 23 Faith Connections’ Theology on Tap event where she discussed her spiritual resistance in a concentration camp. Between 1942 and 1945, she was held at the Theresienstadt camp in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, where she endured many hardships but found ways to maintain her humanity."

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