In this issue: Prayer: The nature of evil: She played the organ at Mass every Sunday, and yet no one noticed that she never received Communion. Unknown to anyone, this forty-year-old mother of four was leading a double life.
Black Catholic: Abortion: An African-American holocaust: Almost half of all African-American babies in Philadelphia are aborted.
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. Bernard 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!
Cardinal on national priorities: 'The gravest of all issues'
No one observing our nation’s electoral process over the past several months could fail to notice the role of religion in politics. Some have sought to deny this role, citing a strict “separation of Church and State.”
From the Heart “How dare the Church tell me what to think!” In this horribly contentious election year, that’s the angry battle cry of some politically-committed Catholics.
Dark side of UNICEF
“Trick or treat for UNICEF. …” Philadelphia kids were the first to shout those words when doors opened to trick-or-treaters on Halloween night in 1950.
Schiavo's death date
A day after his sister narrowly escaped another date with death, Bobby Schindler, Jr., the brother of 40-year-old, cognitively-disabled Terri Schindler-Schiavo, delivered a hard-hitting speech at a prayer breakfast held a few miles from the suburban Philadelphia parish where Bob and Mary Schindler raised their three children.
Scandal rocks Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Eva Sanchez Silver, the Hispanic outreach director, medical research analyst and popular speaker for the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Foundation (SGK), resigned her position in protest recently, after learning that Komen affiliates have given almost a half-million dollars to Planned Parenthood.
Year of the Eucharist: Christ: Wholly and entirely present
During this Year of the Eucharist, parishioners throughout the Archdiocese of Philadelphia will share their testimonies of faith in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Hopefully, one of these heart-felt stories will re-ignite the faith of someone who is struggling to accept this inestimable mystery of our Faith. | The Catholic Standard & Times
Issue of October 28, 2004 Generation Life's DAY ONE: Gather for life, unleash the youth: Twenty-one-year-old James Runco is an abortion survivor. Not just because anyone born after 1973 could have been aborted legally, but because Runco knows that his mother was going to abort him. Story
Generation Life's DAY ONE: Gather for life, unleash the youth: Twenty-one-year-old James Runco is an abortion survivor. Not just because anyone born after 1973 could have been aborted legally, but because Runco knows that his mother was going to abort him. Story
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