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    Open heart adoption

    With four children already, the Roberto family of Bensalem decided to adopt four more – all with special needs — from China.

  • Iris Reyes-Bugg leads the children's liturgy at St. Peter the Apostle church, where she also serves as a teacher in the Parish Religious Education Program.

    Moved to cheers

    One of 16 children born into a poor Honduran family, Iris Reyes-Bugg grew up in her adopted Philadelphia family — and into a dynamic young woman determined to serve.

  • Volunteer Ted Wahl serves a meal to the needy during his weekly service at St. John’s Hospice in Philadelphia.

    Warm meals, warm words

    The kind words of volunteer Ted Wahl pair well with the hot meals he offers to homeless men at St. John’s Hospice, Philadelphia. They might be the only such gifts the men receive in a day, and Wahl knows he might be seeing in them the face of Christ.

Parenting

It’s spring — kids, get outside!

Jim and Jennifer Volpe
Exploring nature together can help children learn about the gifts of creation and their relationship with the loving Creator.

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Food

A banana split malt in exchange for change

A yummy treat is one incentive for changing our ways, but a greater one is pleasing the Father.

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What’s in a name? Plenty

Our new pope chose the name Francis, for St. Francis of Assisi. But the Bridges family knows he could have chosen equally saintly models with the same name.