Opinion
What Catholics need to know about NaPro
By Barbara Savinetti-Rose NaProTechnology or NaPro, a natural approach to health care that utilizes the Creighton Model FertilityCare system, is fast becoming a popular subject on many blogs and list-serves that focus on infertility and women’s health. Despite its popularity, few Catholics are aware of the fact that NaPro is being offered in the Greater […]
Mom goes to a nursing home
By Father Peter J. DalyCatholic News Service We put my mother in a nursing home in mid-March. It may only be temporary, but it was painful. As our parents live into their 90s, it is a common experience. But that doesn’t make it any less painful. Mom turns 91 in April. She has had a […]
An airport encounter
By Archbishop Timothy Dolan It was only the third time it had happened to me in my nearly 35 happy years as a priest, all three times over the last nine-and-a-half years. Other priests tell me it has happened to them a lot more. Three is enough. Each time has left me so shaken I […]
Inspiration, education thanks to Father Dietzen
Few people in the Philadelphia Archdiocese may have met the man, but most readers of The Catholic Standard & Times would recognize the name Father John Dietzen. The priest of the Peoria (Ill.) Diocese, whose syndicated question-and-answer column has appeared in this newspaper for more than 30 years, died this week at age 83. His […]
Debating points of new Pa. budget
By A. B. Hill “Pennsylvania’s “day of reckoning has come,” announced Gov. Tom Corbett with calls for fiscal discipline and no new taxes. On March 8 the governor unveiled his $27.3 billion spending plan for the commonwealth’s 2011-2012 fiscal year. The budget proposal represents a 3 percent overall decrease from last year, but program cuts […]
Reaching out to all Catholics in Phaith
As we recount in this week’s front-page story, the Catholic Standard & Times has reached a turning point in its 116-year history. In all that time it has served the Church of Philadelphia with dedication to communicate news, commentary and faith formation to Catholics. In the words of former editor now Cardinal John P. Foley, […]
Our family’s devotion to St. John Neumann
by Janet GaugerSpecial to the CS&T My family has a special connection to St. John Neumann, one that began over 150 years ago. The story of this special man touching our family has been told for generations. As a result, many of my McCoy relatives – aunts, uncles, and cousins – have a sincere devotion […]
Faithful priests lost in scandal
By Jim and Rosemary Rogers and Jim and Pat WelshMembers of the Priests’ Parents Association in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Lost in the terrible scandal unleashed by the recent second grand jury report regarding accused priests in our Archdiocese is the reality of the hundreds of faithful sons of the Church who have and continue […]
We still believe
Ever since the Feb. 10 release of the Philadelphia grand jury report, the local and national news media have shined a bright light on the sexual abuse scandal here in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Last Friday night’s penitential service led by Cardinal Rigali at the Cathedral placed the still-raw feelings of pain and mistrust in […]
Caring for the least of these in Pa.
By A.B. Hill The Gospel compels us to provide for the poor and care for the sick. “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you […]