In this issue:

Prayer: The seven mansions of the soul There’s a kingdom inside you, a magnificent castle filled with mystical delights and supernatural adventures. This interior castle is the domain of those willing to let go of the worldly in order to grasp the otherworldly. What is this kingdom and where can we find it?


Black Catholic: 'Loose change' helps thousands threatened by malaria for lack of mosquito nets: Last year, Blanche White-Toole, a member of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, met a man from East Africa who told her something that touched her heart.  
Education: Cardinal honors 2004 Archdiocesan scholars At the 25th annual Archdiocesan Academic Honors Convocation, 128 students from across the Archdiocese were honored for ranking in the top 2 percent of their senior class.  
In the Parishes: This week, focus on Philadelphia North's St. Dominic Parish and hear about what special devotions are observed, new ministries and parish history.

Vocation Series: Lay Vocations: The consecrated women of Regnum Christi: What is it about the Regnum Christi movement that attracts young women to consecrate their lives to God as lay missionaries throughout the world?

The Word Became Flesh
Cardinal Justin Rigali's weekly column. Read it here!


The Neocatechumenal Way: Helping thousands reconnect with their faith
Maria Flores thought she knew her faith. But after becoming part of a program at Incarnation of Our Lord Parish called the Neocatechumenal Way, she realized how much she still had to learn.
City's scholarship program to include Catholic schools
Philadelphia non-public high school seniors will be included in a proposed college scholarship program previously closed to them.
Connelly Foundation scholars
The eighth-grade students looked across the aisle and saw themselves in four years.
The truth is good medicine
The link between abortion and breast cancer is a subject pertinent to every woman, whether she’s pro-life or pro-choice.
School wins National Award
SS. Colman-John Neumann School in Bryn Mawr was one of 12 schools in the country recognized at the National Catholic Educational Convention in Boston for innovations in staff development.
Homosexuality: The untold story
The Catholic Standard and Times is publishing a six-part series that focuses exclusively on the untold side of what is known to the medical, social, scientific and religious communities about homosexuality. This week, "Known causes of same-sex attraction"
The Catholic Standard & Times
Issue of May 27, 2004

Cluster 15 bonds together to form YANCS3: Find out what YANCS3 stands for and how the young adults of Cluster 15 are making waves across the whole young adult ministry scene. Story


Teens 'wiggle' when faced with culture of death In a dynamic, engaging and humorous presentation to hundreds of Philadelphian teens May 23 at St. Jude Parish in Chalfont, Franciscan Friar of the Renewal Father Stan Fortuna challenged youth to learn to ‘wiggle’ when engaging the culture of death. Story

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