In this issue: Prayer: Keeping your retreat holy:
In spite of the glowing brochures filled with highly credentialed speakers, even the most discerning among us can find ourselves trapped in a retreat-gone-bad.
Black Catholic: Saint Peter Claver, pray for us: Read Father Stephen D. Thorne's letter, the director for the Office for Black Catholics.
Education: Sacred Heart opens $2.4 million community center: The young athletes at Sacred Heart Parish and School in Royersford are set to jump, dribble, score. A new gymnasium is part of a $2.4 million community center recently completed on the parish grounds.
In the Parishes: This week, focus on Philadelphia North's St. Bridget Church, and hear about what special devotions are observed, new ministries and parish history.
Vocation Series: Marriage Vocation: Answering the call to lifelong companionship and fatherhood: It was the feast of St. Joseph when William J. Guy Jr. first called Caroline Parker to ask her out. What Bill didn’t know was that she had recently prayed a novena to St. Jude asking that her future husband enter her life. | The Word Became Flesh
Cardinal Justin Rigali's weekly column. Read it here!
Miracle in our midst
Elsie Briggs slipped into the back of the Mission Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts for no other reason than to find a place to sit down.
Evangelization for a new millennium When you hear Pope John Paul II’s call to the Church to go out and make disciples of the world, do you wonder how it’s possible to accomplish such a feat?
Our Suffering Church: Sudan, Africa: 'Tell our brothers and sisters to intercede for us'
Damare Garang was only 7 years old when government-backed soldiers attacked his Sudanese village and sold him into slavery. He was bought by a member of a Arab-backed extremist group in Tuobon and charged with minding the camels.
Cardinal marks first anniversary
Commemorating the first anniversary of his installation as Archbishop of Philadelphia on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, Thursday, Oct. 7, Cardinal Justin Rigali reminded his flock to be mindful of the pivotal roles Jesus, the Blessed Mother, the Apostles and prayer play in the life of the Church.
Bishops issue document: 'Catholic Conscience and Public Policy'
In order to counter what they call an “increasingly secular culture” and defend the role of religious believers and organizations in American society, Pennsylvania’s Catholic bishops have issued a short question-and-answer document, reprinted below, explaining the Church and its role in civic life.
Why should you care about Terri Schiavo?
Disability activists across the country are expressing anger and deep concern about the recent Florida Supreme Court decision that declared “Terri’s Law” unconstitutional. | The Catholic Standard & Times
Issue of October 14, 2004 Youth 2000: An experience like no other: Anyone who’s discovered it at World Youth Day, or at one of the local churches around the world, knows the power of a Youth 2000 retreat weekend. Story
We wish to see YOU there: It’s October again! When I think October, one of the first things that comes to mind is not football, not fall foliage, not college applications, but Youthfest! Youthfest is the local archdiocesan celebration of World Youth Day sponsored by the Office for Youth and Young Adults (OYYA). Story
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