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Catholic In this issue: Prayer:
Hispanic Catholics: Solicitud de becas para los nuevos Americanos Plazo: 1 de noviembre Las becas Paul & Daysi Foro para los nuevos Americanos (Paul & Daysi Foro Fellowships for New Americans) proporcionan oportunidades para continuadas generaciones de nuevos Americanos capaces y adiestrados de llegar al liderazgo en sus campos escogidos. Las becas son por hasta dos años de estudio graduado en los Estados Unidos. Sports Keeping the Catholic League red and blue A topic of conversation that seems to come up regularly among Catholic League football fans is the idea of determining a sole Catholic League football champion. Profile: The spirit to help Msgr. Francis X. Schmidt has had quite a life. Priesthood, secondary school teacher, archdiocesan youth activities director, pastor of two parishes. Now at 75, he’s at an age when most people are content to sit back, maybe send a little check off to the missions every now and again. But here he is, in an ambitious project to build housing for the poor in Nicaragua. What’s that all about? |
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editor of CS&T named to the College of Cardinals Click here for Cardinal Rigali's statement This Week's Issue The Word Became Flesh Cardinal Rigali's weekly column. Read it here. Pope completes second encyclical Pope Benedict XVI has completed his second encyclical, a meditation on Christian hope, according to Vatican sources. Bicentennial
concert displays talents of Catholic school students
I truly believe that this is what heaven sounds like.” LuAnn Liberatori raved about the Oct. 10 archdiocesan Bicentennial Concåert, which included her daughter, Gabrielle Davidheiser, an eighth-grader at St. Aloyisus School in Pottstown. Life,
liberty and the freedom to be faithful
What is the relationship between the words ‘Christian’ and ‘cretin?’ Who should we emulate, Thomas Jefferson or Thomas More? Those questions were explored by U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia before a dinner of the St. Thomas More Society of Philadelphia at the Union League on Oct. 15. Ministering post-Katrina Post-Katrina ministry in New Orleans can be challenging, Father Anthony M. Bozeman has discovered. Father Bozeman, a former priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and now a member of St. Joseph’s Society of the Sacred Heart (Josephite Fathers) is pastor of St. Joan of Arc Parish in New Orleans. Faith’s invitation in Kensington Three Spanish-speaking missionary sisters, three Redemptorist priests and a slew of parishioners from Visitation B.V.M parish have taken to the streets in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. Lay missioners: A time to serve For Ellen O’Connell, life in the missions started in a high school cafeteria, where students were throwing away their lunches so they could buy cafeteria food.
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