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This Week's Issue The Word Became Flesh Cardinal Rigali's weekly column. Read it here. Cardinal urges Senate to reject stem cell legislation As the U.S. Senate prepared to vote on federal funding for stem cell research next week, Cardinal Justin Rigali urged the senators to reject legislation [S. 5] that would promote the destruction of human embryos to obtain their stem cells. “With enactment of such legislation, federal law would for the first time force taxpayers to encourage deliberate attacks on innocent human life in the name of medical progress,” the Cardinal said. Piano prodigy’s journey There were a dozen talented young musicians from various archdiocesan elementary schools at a February 11 piano competition held at Immaculata University. Thao Nguyen, an eighth-grader at St. Helena School in Olney, chose a Ludwig van Beethoven sonata, “Opus 49 No. 2,” as her selection. Once she began to play, it was immediately obvious to seasoned listeners that she would be the winner. Bringing a bit of Philly to Jamaica Can you imagine driving down a road past the sugarcane fields near Spanish Town, Jamaica, and all of a sudden coming upon a sign that reads “Father Chuck Pfeffer Village”? Catholic schools in Philadelphia The Catholic education system in Philadelphia had a violent beginning. When Catholic immigrants began to arrive in the new United States from Ireland and Italy, the Protestant nation did not know how to deal with people they called “papists,” whom they greatly distrusted. |
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