The Catholic
Standard & Times
Issue of August 28, 2008


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Editorial:
Labor bill threatens religious liberty in Pa.
Labor Day waits just around the corner next week, and with it, the summer’s last official long weekend.

Business News
Serving customers, employees and God

“Bob McGreevy, P.E., Servant.”

Catholic Spirituality
Praise God through reverence shown to others

By Michelle Francl-Donnay

Hispanic Catholics
Obispo, sacerdotes trabajan para detener redadas de inmigración

El obispo Thomas J. Tobin de Providence, Rhode Island, y 15 pastores católicos han llamado la atención de las autoridades para que se detengan las redadas masivas de inmigración en Rhode Island, por de pronto; y para que se les permita a los agentes, que no estén de acuerdo por cargo de conciencia con tales redadas, abstenerse en calidad de objetor de conciencia.

Rhode Island Bishop, priests work to stop immigration raids in state
Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, R.I., and 15 Catholic pastors have called on authorities to stop massive immigration raids in Rhode Island for the time being and to allow agents who disagree with such raids on moral grounds to step aside as conscientious objectors.


Sports
Catholic League football awaits PIAA play

By John Knebels


Profile
Lansdale Catholic names new principal, president

Tim Quinn and Jim Casey

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


NEWS

Ambassadors sought for tours
There’s a lot more to the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul than its architectural beauty and history.

Special Education funding gets a hearing
Advocates for special education testified at the Pennsylvania House Republican Policy Committee Hearing Aug. 20 to raise awareness about the archdiocesan schools of special education and learning disability programs and the resources that fund them.

CRS directs humanitarian aid to Georgian crisis
This week Russia officially recognized the pro-Moscow Georgian states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states, causing further tension between Georgia and Russia, which went to war earlier this month.

FEATURES


Learn to Shelter program grows teen leaders
Throughout the school year, teenage boys try to stay out of trouble on their North Philadelphia streets by playing basketball at the Cardinal Bevilacqua Community Center (CBCC).


The Year of St. Paul June 2008 - June 2009

St. Paul assures Christ’s call to holiness
By Deacon Louis S. Malfara

Conversion isn’t just a patch job, it’s total transformation
By Deacon Louis S. Malfara


For more on the
Year of St. Paul, visit the Archdiocese of Philadelphia website by clicking here.


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