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Letters from the Pope
Just three months before he died of cancer last year, Msgr. Thomas J. Herron, the former pastor of St. Laurence Parish in Upper Darby, received a personal letter from his former boss, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.
In this issue: Prayer: Holy Simplicity: For some reason, we mortals can’t resist complicating our lives. Our schedules are so crammed we need palm-pilots and blackberries to keep us straight. Just in case the boss, the kids, the spouse or the parents need to reach us at any time of the day or night, we won’t leave home without a trusty cell phone tucked in our pocket or purse. People don’t have just street addresses and phone numbers anymore, now they have e-mail and web page addresses, too.
Black Catholic: Black Catholic youth headed to Cologne: The Martin de Porres Foundation is sponsoring six black Catholic youths for this year’s World Youth Day, to be held August 16-21 in Cologne, Germany.
In the Parishes: Focus on Bucks County’s
Immaculate Conception Parish, Levittown
Vocations: From the Brook: A Weekly Profile of Members of the Ordination Class of 2005 from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Wynnewood
| This Week's Issue The Word Became Flesh
Cardinal Rigali's weekly column. Read it here.
Holy Martyrs: Unholy violence
When Kenny Baptiste graduated from grade school a few short years ago, he told his schoolmate Gabriel Rodriguez that he would miss him.
Making history in Chester County
The former principal of Coatesville Area Catholic Elementary School once jokingly told her successor that someone should put a flower on her grave when ground was finally broken for the new regional elementary school building.
Sculpture inspires global prayer
The beautiful and powerful marble sculpture of “Mary, Mother of the Life Within” has taken on a life of its own — a life that not even Joseph DeVito, the artist who created it, could have imagined.
‘Go, preach the Gospel’
Like many Italian immigrant parents, Rosalie Mirenda’s parents dreamed of having “a son, the priest.”
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Father Joe Roesch, who used to write The CS&T’s popular column “Ask Father Joe,” is now Second General Councilor of the Rome Congregation of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, which promotes the message of Divine Mercy around the world. He has agreed to write a column for us about what it’s like to be in Rome during the opening days of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI, and about his own Divine Mercy apostolate. | The Catholic Standard & Times
Issue of June 9, 2005
Top scorer honors Coach Diletto: If Samantha Thompson were only a great basketball player, she would still be remembered forever at St. Basil Academy. After all, no basketball player in the history of the school had ever scored 1,000 career points — a milestone that Thompson reached in February during a game against Nazareth Academy. Story
Bishop Shanahan singer got his start in church: For 17-year-old William Monahan, faith and music are interwoven.
Local student one of 13 first-place winners in Family Rosary contest: Dallas S. Scott III prays the rosary daily. His 13-year-old son, Dallas S. Scott IV, a seventh-grader at St. Madeline-St. Rose School in Ridley Park, has followed in his father’s footsteps by setting up his own rosary recitation schedule.
CS&T presents journalism awards
to high school students: The Catholic Standard & Times held its 22nd annual High School Journalism Colloquium and Scholastic Journalism awards ceremony on Thursday, May 12 at the archdiocesan office center.
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