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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.
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
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.
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