In this issue: Prayer: The nature of evil: Forbidden Knowledge: There is a power in this world that does not come from God. It can tell the future or speak in voices from the past. But beware. There is another kingdom, one of dark and deceiving powers, that seeks to mimic the Kingdom of God. It is the kingdom of Satan.
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!
TV Mass: Celebrating 30 years: An electronic conversion
Patricia Black had never been baptized and had no affiliation with a religion despite having been raised in a Christian household. In the year 2000, around the time she began caring for her now deceased elderly grandparents and her great-uncle who had lung cancer, she decided she needed a stronger spiritual connection.
Year of the Eucharist: Young writers reflect on the effect of the Eucharist 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.
Truth behind Rainbow Week
Outraged parents, students and alumni have innundated St. Joseph’s University with e-mails and calls protesting its celebration of Rainbow Week, which they say is nothing more than a way to promote gay rights.
Courting disaster: Cohabitation
Living together as a way of “testing the waters” before marriage is on its way to becoming a colossal mistake for American society, according to statistics compiled by a senior family-life researcher.
Msgr. Walsh simplifies Catholic teaching
Let’s be honest. Pope John Paul II is a brilliant thinker and a prolific writer, but he’s not the easiest author to understand.
Support the 2004 Annual Seminary appeal
In writing to you on behalf of the November 2004 Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary Annual Appeal, I am reminded of Saint Paul’s greeting to the Church in Corinth: “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always on your account for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus” (I Cor 1:3-7). | The Catholic Standard & Times
Issue of November 4, 2004 Margot Cappocci: Just FOCUS and God will lead you: Jake Wood, the youth minister at St. Monica Parish in Berwyn, decided to do something different for his youth group for World Mission Sunday, Oct. 24. He wanted his teens to think outside the box when it came to missionary work. Story
Adventure of faith: Maintaining the wonder: St. Augustine said, “People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.” Story
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