Vatican official offers grateful memories of a Catholic education

Published: 2005-03-30

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications, says that when he joined the staff of The Catholic Standard & Times in 1964 some uncharitable folks suggested he gave up logic. Then, in 1984, when he was named a bishop, he added, "the really uncharitable said I gave up ethics." Logic and ethics happen to be two of the courses the former editor of Philadelphia's archdiocesan newspaper taught at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia before his appointments. Archbishop Foley told this story in his March 29 keynote address to the National Catholic Educational Association convention at the Philadelphia Convention Center. Before his talk, he asked the audience to join him in saying a Hail Mary for Pope John Paul II.

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