Thirteen years after her death, and as the 100th anniversary of her birth approaches, the impact of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta's work and prayer is still felt throughout the archdiocese and throughout the world.
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Thirteen years after her death, and as the 100th anniversary of her birth approaches, the impact of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta's work and prayer is still felt throughout the archdiocese and throughout the world.
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Anger management
Robert Furey, a professional counselor and Review columnist, will be the guest speaker at the First Tuesday Pro-Life Speaker Series at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7, at St. Peter Parish, 215 N. Clay Ave. in Kirkwood. Furey will speak on the topic of anger management, how it can serve a greater good and how its destructive forces can be minimized. A reception will follow.
Festa di Santa Fara
The 11th annual Festa di Santa Fara will be...
Estimates of the number of people affected by severe flooding in
Pakistan that began in late July range from 16 million to 20 million.
Catholic Relief Services reports that the floods in northern Pakistan
were sudden and violent. The water cut 100-foot-wide and 40-foot-high
gashes out of mountainsides. Water delivery systems, roads, bridges,
people’s land and more were destroyed by the sudden force of the water.
Entire communities are displaced in the south, but their land, although
damaged, will be there after the floodwaters go down. Catholic...
Children's video goes from St. Louis to India
Surprised, but definitely pleased.
David Mead of Creative Communications for the Parish in Fenton was awed by the news that a children's video he produced 12 years ago was chosen to be part of the Mother Teresa International Film Festival in India, Aug. 26-29.
"It's very exciting to know — my goodness, this made it into the hands of people on the other side of the world," Mead said last week. "You never know how these things are going to reach people."
Organizers of the film festival...
With a high abortion rate, easy access to artificial reproductive technology and a low Catholic population, Taiwan wouldn't seem like a place where natural family planning would be embraced.
But Sister Arlene Te, a member of the Sisters of the Society Devoted to the Sacred Heart, is showing that's quite the contrary. The family medicine doctor, who practices at Cardinal Tien Hospital in Taipei, said she has observed a growing interest in NFP among couples who are trying to achieve a pregnancy.
Sister Arlene was in St. Louis last week to meet with a student she is coaching as...
In January when I published my vision for Catholic schools, I wrote: "We cannot be content with the status quo or, worse, with declining enrollments in our schools. To truly be Alive in Christ our schools must be vibrant centers of evangelization and missionary activity. Promoting growth is not optional — no matter how difficult the challenges."
I know the challenges are enormous. The demographics seem to be against us. Even the largest Catholic school in our archdiocese must prepare for the day when its numbers begin to decline. Given this reality, how do keep our schools growing?...
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