The Catholic
Standard & Times
Issue of January 17, 2008

 

In this issue:

SECTIONS
Editorial:
Hopeful signs for unborn
 Is abortion merely a choice? Of course it involves choice, but abortion fundamentally is about a living human child. Is abortion only about one woman’s choice, informed only by her doctor? Ultimately it is a woman’s choice, but she is informed and influenced by other forces and other people.
Guest Columnist
Our country’s tragic anniversary
By Father Leonard Peterson
Business News
As CEO, he focuses on dignity, sanctity of life
As a Catholic, and as president and CEO of St. Mary Medical Center, Gregory T. Wozniak embraces the dignity of life every day.
Hispanic Catholics
El cambio de manera de hablar visto como clave para el debate sobre la inmigración
El futuro inmediato aparece un tanto siniestro para los que trabajan esforzándose en mejorar la suerte de los inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos.
  Sports
From Carroll to Camden Yards, Mike Costanzo chases his dreams
It’s often been said that baseball is a game of adjustments — adjusting to a pitcher, adjusting to the strike count, adjusting to a hitter, even adjusting to the inning.

Conwell-Egan grad keeps hopes high for NFL draft
When Steve Slaton was running wild as a member of Conwell-Egan’s football team before he graduated in 2005, the possibility of a future professional career seemed a long shot at best.

Profile:
Local teens see fruits of loving labor
Many of life’s lessons can’t really be learned in a classroom, but have to be experienced first-hand.
Four area Catholic high school students were among a group of 10 teens and 14 adults who visited Nicaragua last week to see the new Food for the Poor housing dedicated to the memory of Father Charles Pfeffer, a former director of the archdiocesan Office for Youth and Young Adults (OYYA).

The Word Became Flesh
Cardinal Rigali's weekly column. Read it here.

NEWS

Youth rally to defend life
Now more than ever, young people are joining the pro-life movement, says Judi McLane, director of Generation Life, an organization of young people spreading pro-life and chastity messages to their peers.

March for Life events
A schedule of events in which the Cardinal will be participating.

Season of Service:
Turn to St. John Neumann, Katharine Drexel
The Bicentennial Season of Service gives Catholics across the Archdiocese the chance to recommit themselves to serve others in God’s name, said Father Joseph C. McLoone, chairman of the archdiocesan bicentennial committee.

Ways to serve

Models for serving

Cardinal Rigali appoints promoter
of Eucharistic adoration
When Msgr. Gregory J. Parlante was 7 years old, about a month after he received his first holy Communion, he participated in a Eucharistic procession for Forty Hours at his parish in South Philadelphia.
Three parishes to form regional elementary school
A new regional Catholic elementary school will open in September in the Port Richmond section of the city, uniting the students of St. Adalbert, Nativity B.V.M. and Our Lady Help of Christians schools.
Apologetics series focuses on sacraments
The International Institute for Culture is starting off the new year with a lecture series explaining the essentials of the Catholic faith — a series that was requested by members of the laity who want to explain the faith more effectively, according to John Haas, the institute’s president.

 

FEATURE
Father Pfeffer’s Village completed in Nicaragua
A group of 24 Philadelphia-area pilgrims, led by Msgr. Francis X. Schmidt, traveled to Nicaragua Jan. 8-11 to see just what happened to the money raised through Father Chuck’s Challenge to supply housing for desperately poor families. They were not disappointed.

Led by priests to the priesthood
Whether they responded to an early or a late vocation, all four of the folowing priests credit the exemplary witness of a priest in their own life with helping them to say “yes” to God’s call.

Seminarians on vocations: ‘You’re gradually turning the volume up on God’s voice’
When Charles Ravert was a boy, he marveled at super heroes as he pored over his favorite comic books.

Called to be a priest?
Vocations Office can offer guidance
Father Christopher B. Rogers, the director of the Vocation Office for Diocesan Priesthood, sees himself as a “facilitator of the Holy Spirit” — and not a recruiter — for young men discerning whether they have a call to the priesthood.

Priesthood discernment days and nights in the Archdiocese
Priesthood discernment programs at the Archdiocesan Office Center in Philadelphia and at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, sponsored by the Archdiocese’s Vocation Office for Diocesan Priesthood

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