The Catholic
Standard & Times
Issue of June 19, 2008


In this issue:


SECTIONS

Editorial:
Growth counters view of Church in decline
This week’s cover story recounts the quiet success of dramatic growth for the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Guest Columnist
Remembering journalist Tim Russert
By Lou Baldwin


Business News
Turning a lawyer’s intellect to solving challenges of health care

Alexander Bono, who was recently appointed to the board of archdiocesan Catholic Health Care Services, thinks his father might have been prescient when he named him.

Catholic Spirituality
Cast prudence aside — light a prayer

By Michelle Francl-Donnay

Hispanic Catholics
Redescubriendo nuestros cinco panes y dos pescados

Por Mons. Hugh Shields

Rediscovering our five loaves and two fish
By Msgr. Hugh Shields


Sports
Pius X’s softball team dazzles at districts

They might not have won a state championship, but once again, they finished the season with some impressive hardware.

Profile
Anne Speitel McCann


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


NEWS

Our growing Church
Hispanic Catholics fueling dramatic surge for Church in southern Chester County

Bishops decry embryonic stem-cell research
Declaring that stem-cell research does not present a conflict between science and religion, the U.S. bishops overwhelmingly approved a statement June 13 calling the use of human embryos in such research “gravely immoral” and unnecessary.

Russert best interviewer on TV, says Cardinal Foley
Cardinal John P. Foley was just as shocked as everyone else to hear the news of the sudden death on Friday, June 13, of Tim Russert, the long-time moderator of “Meet the Press” and Washington bureau chief for NBC News.

Catholics among top winners in cartoon contest
Two local Catholics were ranked among the best cartoonists from across the country and the world in speaking out against violence in the National Liberty Museum’s second annual “Anti-Violence” editorial “caretoons” contest.

FEATURES

Soldier visits
St. Bede,
thanks students

First Lieutenant James Devlin, 2nd Platoon, Charlie Troop, 82nd Airborne Division, received a hero’s welcome at St. Bede the Venerable School, Holland, on June 10.


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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Black Catholic
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Obituaries


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