Editor’s
Note: The Catholic Standard & Times is proud to present interviews
with the Pennsylvania’s candidates for the U.S. Senate and state
gubernatorial race. The interviews were conducted by the Pennsylvania
Catholic Conference, the public affairs arm of Pennsylvania’s
Catholic bishops and the Catholic dioceses of Pennsylvania (www.pacatholic.org)
and approved by the candidates.
In
this issue:
Prayer: FOUR
LAST THINGS: Meditations for life and death Since the earliest days of the Church, the days leading up
to the great feasts of All Saints and All Souls was a time to take
a break from the everyday bustle and confront the sober realities
of life. Those realities have come to be known as the four last things
— death, judgment, hell, heaven.
Profile: Staying forever young
She doesn’t make a big deal about her age. After all it’s
just a number — even though she is 91 years old, and counting.
REMEMBERING
FR. MARIAN ZALECKI—
Read a collection of articles written by Fr. Marian for The CS&T
:
Priesthood
Sunday is Oct. 29
Without priests, there would be no Eucharist. That
alone is reason enough to give thanks to those men who have given
their lives to God.
Celebrate
our bicentennial A
pilgrimage, a scavenger hunt, a concert, a calendar and a book all
play their part in plans to celebrate 200 years of Catholicism in
the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
Human
trafficking:
When the American Dream becomes a nightmare Human
trafficking is the exploitation of persons for sex or forced labor
using fraud, coercion, violence and abuse to control its victims.
It is, in fact, modern day slavery, and no country is exempt from
it — not even the United States.
Take the Blackjack
Case, in which Mexican girls were trafficked into the United States
for prostitution and forced labor.
Profile:
