The triplets skip along footpaths, giggle, chirp, chatter. They have signals - really a special world all their own - especially at secret-telling time, which is pretty much all the time, writes FR JOE MAIER.

Up until two months ago, a few mornings each week, just before his kindergarten class, Master Note, a nine-year-old boy in our care, rode his imaginary broomstick horse around our Mercy Centre compound...

Janusz Korczak was a renowned Polish-Jewish humanitarian, doctor, writer, and orphanage director.

Among his many achievements, Korczak made his greatest impact for children everywhere as a tireless and eloquent advocate for the rights of the...