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The
Catholic Standard & Times Issue of March 8, 2007
In
this issue:
Prayer: Stations: Powerful healing experience Praying
the Stations of the Cross can be much more than just a routine Lenten
exercise.
Profile: Faith
+ a daughter’s love = 100 years
America’s oldest Vietnamese immigrant may well be Joseph Chiet
Doan of St. Helena Parish in Philadelphia, who turned 100 this past
Feb. 15. The special event was marked the following day with a birthday
Mass celebrated in his honor by Msgr. Joseph Trinh, Pastor of St. Helena’s
Church.
This
Week's Issue
The
Word Became Flesh Cardinal
Rigali's weekly column. Read it here.
Former
New-Ager draws crowd at Malvern Almost
100 people gathered at the Malvern Retreat House on Feb. 21 to hear
the testimony of Moira Noonan, a former psychic counselor and Reiki
master who spent 25 years away from the Church while steeped in the
New Age movement.
Bewitched
by Wicca Sometimes called the Goddess movement,
Goddess spirituality or the Craft, Wicca is one of the fastest growing
religions in America today.
Say
‘yes’ to Catholicism on campus “I’ve seen a lot
of the world and I’ve seen a lot of the Church. There are few
things happening in the Church at this moment in history as powerful
as FOCUS.”
Keeping
Christ in the center of our lives and our churches
In his first pastoral letter as Archbishop of Philadelphia, Cardinal
Justin Rigali asked pastors to consider placing the tabernacle in
the center of the church behind the main altar if it was not already
there and if individual circumstances made such a move feasible.
Amid suffering,
loving service When
11-year-old Fernando Pahuamba saw Cardinal Justin Rigali walk into
the room, another difficult day in the hospital became “a special
day.”