In this issue: Prayer: ‘Twenty-six martyrs’ inspired with joy: Above a hilltop overlooking Nagasaki Bay floats a row of men and boys in bronze, frozen eternally in attitudes of joy. ‘Floats,’ I say, because they seem to hang suspended in mid-air along a wall of stone. These are the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan.
Black Catholic: Black wax museum brings kids together: The assignment began routinely enough. Students at St. Martin de Porres in Philadelphia, a predominantly black school, were asked to read a biography of a person they wanted to know more about and write a one-and-a-half page, first person narrative explaining the person's early life, success, career and life after initial successes.
Education: The importance of Catholic Education: Talk of Cardinal Justin Rigali, Neumann College, Aston, Pa., Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws and Founder’s Day
March 16, 2005
In the Parishes: The St. Andrew, Newtown, Home and School Association is anything but a Mickey Mouse operation — even though many of its members will be on two chartered flights to Disneyland next week.
Vocation Series: Celebrating and honoring Sister Carmen Torres: After more than four years serving as director of the Catholic Institure for Evangelization for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Sister Carmen is leaving to become provincial vocation director of her community, the society of the Holy Child Jesus in Drexel Hill. | The Word Became Flesh
Cardinal Justin Rigali's weekly column. Read it here!
Prayer on the Parkway
To culminate the Year of the Eucharist, Cardinal Justin Rigali is calling all Catholics to witness to their faith by joining him and his auxiliary bishops in a Holy Hour on Sunday evening, Sept. 18, at Logan Circle on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
NCEA Keynote
Catholic Education:
Memories of a grateful graduate
Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications, makes an amusing observation about the response some people had to his years as assistant editor and editor of the The Catholic Standard and Times — and then later, to his appointment as Bishop.
Remembering martyr Oscar Romero
Twenty-five years ago, Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador, was shot down while celebrating Mass in El Salvador’s capital city. The assassination, which we commemorate March 24, drew attention to the undeclared 15-year civil war that made the 1980s some of the bloodiest years in El Salvador’s history.
Pope inspires youth to follow Way of Cross
Inspired by Pope John Paul II, a group of young Catholics from St. Denis Parish in Havertown and Sacred Heart Parish in Manoa organizes an annual living representation of the Passion that now draws about 700 people to walk in the footsteps of Christ.
Vicar on life in S. Philly
The pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish was celebrating a funeral Mass recently when the cellular telephone for the Vicar for Philadelphia-South began to vibrate in his pocket. But Msgr. Daniel J. Sullivan — who is both the pastor and the vicar — did not even glance at the phone to see who was calling. He knows that being accessible and present to his people in both jobs requires a careful balancing act.
| The Catholic Standard & Times
Issue of March 31, 2005I took the 'Urban Challenge' at the Romero Center: Over spring break from my college, I was challenged to sleep in a room with four other girls, eat peanut butter and jelly every day for lunch — and listen to 30 people reflect each night on what they did that day. Story
Sweet sounds from Norristown: Be honest. Which would you rather sit through? An informative and lengthy after-luncheon speech or almost an hour of toe-tapping, finger-drumming, spirit-lifting music? Story
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