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Prayer:
Avarice v. generosity:
A fox in the friary
We’ve become so accustomed to buying what we don’t need with money we don’t have that our wallets are crammed with more credit cards than cash. And when the monthly payments get too high, a home equity loan is only a mouse click away. The capital sin of avarice is in its heyday.

The virtue of generosity:
‘A Christian is someone who gives’
In our society, it is difficult not to get caught up in greed — whether for money, material things, time or, basically, anything that we desire to acquire in quantities that are more than God has planned for us. In this materialistic society, we’re told that the more we have, the happier we’ll be. But many of us have found out, the hard way, that is just not true.

This Week's Issue

The Word Became Flesh
Cardinal Rigali's weekly column. Read it here.

Archdiocese flocks to Holy Hours with traveling monstrance
Jesus calls — who will answer? Vocations for the priesthood was the focus of a well-attended Eucharistic Service of Prayer and Praise at Southwest Philadelphia’s St. Barnabas Church on March 27th. The Holy Hour, with Cardinal Justin Rigali as presider and homilist, was one of a series held throughout the Archdiocese March 21-28 at which the Sacred Host was enclosed in a special monstrance, one of six blessed by the late Pope John Paul II in November 2004, specifically to travel the world encouraging prayer for priestly vocations.

No limits: Catholic Charities serves schools for special education
Anthony Ferraro was born with a rare disease called Lebers Congenital Amauroses, and has almost no vision. He’s 11 years old now, and thanks to a state-of-the-art school for students with visual impairments, St. Lucy’s Day School, Anthony is surfing the Web, taking class notes on his own laptop, and using talking, tactile tablets to trace world maps and to “see” what a virus looks like.

Saving a South Philly landmark
St. John Neumann High School for Boys was once the centerpiece of a South Philadelphia neighborhood.

Meet Naseer Montero
Poster Child for 2006 Catholic Charities Appeal
Five-year-old Naseer Montero is so content with the daycare he receives at Casa del Carmen, he doesn’t want to graduate and go to a “grown-up school.”

Questions of Faith: Compendium of Catechism to be released by end of month
Guess the source of the following question and answer: What is the plan of God for man?

JPII: In praise of what abides
No one could have imagined the world’s response to the death of Pope John Paul II, or the outpouring of faith in the days after his death.

The Catholic Standard & Times
Issue of March 30, 2006

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Profile:
An immigrant who transformed a nation
Friday March 17th, was a school day for students at Holy Redeemer Catholic School, just as it is each Friday. This particular Friday, though, was St. Patrick’s Day.

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