In this issue: Prayer: Learning from St. Leonard of Port Maurice the real value of the sacred Mass : With the “Passion of the Christ” movie still lingering in the minds of many Catholics, St. Leonard has much he can teach us.
Black Catholic: Juneteenth, a celebration steeped in history and hope: In 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared freedom for all slaves. Although the Proclamation had taken effect on Jan. 1, 1863, really it freed few, if any, slaves at that time.
Education: Scholarship fund will provide children with a Catholic education: A grateful alumnus of St. Hugh of Cluny School has initiated a scholarship fund that has thus far generated $10,000 toward a goal of $100,000 — contributing to the future hopes of individual students as well as adding another progam to the burgeoning efforts designed to improve life in the parish neighborhood.
In the Parishes: This week, focus on Chester County's Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, West Grove and hear about what special devotions are observed, new ministries and parish history.
Vocation Series: Three who answered the call to contemplative life: Sister Jude Ellen Golumbieski knew she wanted the religious life from age 8 or 9, growing up in coal country, in Mary of Czestochowa Parish, Swoyersville. She entered the Bernardine Sisters of St. Francis in 1960 at age 16. After formation she began a happy career as a teacher of mathematics. | The Word Became Flesh
Cardinal Justin Rigali's weekly column. Read it here!
Catholic education receives a big boost
A Frederick businessman has stunned faculty and students at South Philadelphia’s St. Casimir School with a gift of $100,000 – but the donor himself says he just wishes he could have given more.
Any idea who this woman might be?
She loves piano music and hates soap operas. When someone hurts her feelings, she completely ignores them. She loves praise and hates being yelled at. Talk to her and she’ll talk back. She’s very sensitive to pain and is partially blind. She can swallow and has voluntary control over all of her extremities.
Thérèse in Philadelphia?
All those efforts by Philadelphia Catholics to register their interest in seeing the movie, “Thérèse,” are beginning to pay off. Pennsylvania is now ranked third in the nation, behind first and second place California and Texas.
USCCB on 'Catholics in political life'
Saying that “those who formulate law” are obliged in conscience “to work toward correcting morally defective laws,” the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) called on Catholics in public life to protect the unborn and oppose legal abortion “lest they be guilty of cooperating in evil and in sinning against the common good.”
Cosmos and Creation: A scientist deepens his faith while defending it
I am a cradle Catholic, a former parish council member and a longtime choir member. I am also a scientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
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, "Gay Marriage: Who's Minding the Children?"
| The Catholic Standard & Times
Issue of June 24, 2004 Amanda McGrory: A witness to the power of the human spirit: She is involved in wheelchair basketball, playing for two teams that have both made it to national championships. Story
Teen says: 'St. Thérèse healed my scoliosis': My name is Nick, and I am 14. A year and a half ago, I changed schools, switching from a private to a public school. As my mom was filling out the medical form, she came to the line where it asked if I had scoliosis, and she checked it. She thought I had it because in summer pictures I was always slouched to one side. Story
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