The Catholic
Standard & Times
Issue of June 5, 2008


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Editorial:
No ordinary vacation
As summertime approaches, families are making vacation plans. With gas prices over $4 per gallon and food more costly as well, people might think twice about packing up the family car and driving far.

Guest Columnist
Catholic living:
A more radical call

By Francis X. Meehan


Homily
Homily of
Cardinal Justin Rigali

Permanent Diaconate Ordination
Cathedral Basilica of
Saints Peter and Paul
May 31, 2008

Homily
Homily of
Cardinal Justin Rigali

Interfaith Prayer Service
for Peace and Healing
in our Community
Cathedral Basilica of
Saints Peter and Paul
June 2, 2008

Business News
Celebrating life, pre-planning are keys to funeral home business

For John F. Givnish, the president of Givnish Family Funeral Homes, headquartered in Rockledge, the name tells it all.

Catholic Spirituality
Uniting with the suffering Jesus our best hope

The news is never without a surfeit of misery over which to pray.

Hispanic Catholics
Más de 50 jóvenes participan el en retiro del Espíritu Santo

El 10 de mayo, unos 60 jóvenes, más de la mitad adolescentes, nos dimos cita en el Santuario de Sta. Katharine Drexel, con ocasión de la fiesta de Pentecostés.

Young Hispanics gather for Retreat of the Holy Spirit
Approximately 60 young people, more than half of them adolescents, gathered at the Shrine of St. Katharine Drexel, on May 10 to celebrate a Pentecost-centered retreat.


Sports
St. Joe’s Prep baseball clinches Catholic League championship

Some members of the St. Joseph’s Prep baseball team commented about how many of their peers had asked whether facing Monsignor Bonner in the Catholic League championship would be a nerve-racking endeavor.

Profile
Joanne Royal Kerrigan


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


NEWS

Ground blessed for new high school
Pope John Paul II High School is the name of the $65 million archdiocesan high school slated to open in Montgomery County in September 2010.

Msgr. Michael Carroll assumes leadership of ecumenical office
“We take all the good work that has been done and just try to build on it at the direction of the Cardinal.” That is the goal of Msgr. Michael J. Carroll, 73, for his new duties as part-time director of the archdiocesan Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, beginning June 16.


Teachers, Archdiocese reach agreement
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the Association of Catholic Teachers (ACT) Local 1776 has announced a new, three-year contract for 930 secondary school teachers in the 20 archdiocesan high schools.

FEATURES


Community gathers to mark end of official mourning period for slain officer
June 2 marked exactly 30 days since the slaying of Philadelphia Police Sergeant Stephen Liczbinski, whose funeral Mass was celebrated at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul on May 9.


Bicentennial Reflections
For more bicentennial reflections, and other articles commemorating the Archdiocesan bicentennical celebration, please pick up the April 10 edition of the CS&T at your parish or contact Cecelia Watkins at 215-587-3667 or e-mail cwatkins@adphila.org


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