Prayer: My
father’s legacy My father, J. Eustace Wolfington, was a rainmaker. The ultimate
teacher, he transformed small life events into large character- building
lessons.
Black
Catholics: Following
the Holy Spirit: A history of black priests in the Archdiocese (Part
1 of 2)
Black priests have been in the Catholic Church since the Twelve Apostles.
Profile: Fighting the evil of human trafficking
— Here and now in Philadelphia
Sister Teresita Hinnegan has seen a great deal of violence against women
in her nearly 50 years of ministry, but even she is shocked at how many
women are enslaved in human sex trafficking — internationally
and nationally. Sports: All
hail those hard-kicking Little Flower girls
Who feels on top of the world? Ask Little Flower High School.
Her
legacy: Honoring members of the armed services “Every
man and woman who wears the uniform of the United States is a hero,”
was a lifelong refrain of the late Sister Maria Veronica Keane of
the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
‘We’re
all children of God’
St. Hilary of Poitiers hosts riveting presentation by Holocaust survivor One
evening in 1963, a young, Jewish mother of three named Judith Meisel
was watching the news in her home in Philadelphia when she was riveted
by the story of an African American family that had moved into an all-white
neighborhood in Folcroft. The family was met by a mob of rioters, who
pelted their new home with rocks and spewed racial slurs. Hear
Terri Schindler Schiavo’s parents speak in Essington Bob
and Mary Schindler will discuss their personal experience of the euthanasia
case that gripped the nation in 2005 when their daughter was dehydrated
to death in a Florida hospice.