All This month’s feature story Posts
Parish fundraisers yielding positive results
Posted on April 13th, 2012Capital campaigns are never easy, and it is remarkable that the Heritage of Faith — Vision of Hope archdiocesan campaign that ended in early 2011 surpassed its stated goal of $200 million in pledges. It took a lot of grassroots effort in the parishes, and probably more so in the 18 parishes where planned parish [...]
A proper burial — 180 years in the making
Posted on April 10th, 2012They emigrated to the United States in the early summer of 1832 from Donegal, Tyrone and Derry Counties in Ireland. Hired off the docks in Philadelphia to work on a stretch of tracks on the Pennsylvania & Columbia Railroad (which later became the Reading and Columbia Railroad) between Philadelphia and Lancaster County, 57 Irish immigrants [...]
Children’s mission of mercy feeds the hungry, homeless
Posted on February 29th, 2012
From left, Audrey DeLucca, Jaia Culmer, Sophia DeLucca, Adela Holahan and George Binck, students of St. Mary Interparochial School in Philadelphia’s Olde City section, prepare casseroles for the homeless women and children of Mercy Hospice in the city.
Kick boxing, piano lessons, St. Mary Interparochial School, food preparation and Mercy Hospice. What on earth could they [...]
A Lenten sacrifice so that others may eat
Posted on January 25th, 2012
As the liturgical year brings us closer to the season of Lent, Catholic Christians worldwide will soon reflect on beautiful traditions in preparation for the observance of Christ’s Passion and the celebration of His Resurrection. These traditions may include simple Lenten meals, Scripture studies, abstaining from favorite foods and adding spiritual activities to their daily [...]
Different lives, same call to priesthood
Posted on December 29th, 2011
Seminarian Kevin Mulligan meets Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput
Two men, very similar yet uniquely different. Jim Cardosi and Kevin Mulligan attended classes together and shot hoops together for four years at Bishop Kenrick High School in Norristown, graduated in 1973 and then went their separate ways.
Cardosi went to the U.S. Naval Academy, became a pilot and [...]
The equation of fatherhood
Posted on December 2nd, 2011Faith + Wisdom + Love + Responsibility + Integrity + Fortitude = the Core Values of the Fatherhood and Leadership Initiative. Actually they are great values for any Christian initiative.
Fatherhood Leadership Initiative (FLI) is an organization founded in 2008 by Catholic men in the Philadelphia suburbs who believed their most important mission at the parenting [...]
After 25 years, Calcutta House still serves
Posted on December 2nd, 2011It was in June 1981 that Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In February 1987 Mother Teresa’s Brothers of Charity opened Calcutta House to serve AIDS patients in a rented five-bedroom Victorian house in West Philadelphia.
When Calcutta House begins its 25th year in February [...]
Leading youths to deeper devotion
Posted on December 1st, 2011
By George Gregory
Special to The CS&T
When most Catholics think of saints who represent youth and children, certain names are likely to come to mind: St. Therese of Lisieux, a Discalced Carmelite mystic and doctor of the Church affectionately known as the “Little Flower of Jesus;” St. Maria Goretti, a young virgin who gave her life [...]
Blessed Don Louis (Luigi) Guanella canonized
Posted on November 4th, 2011
Retired Auxiliary Bishop Robert P. Maginnis celebrated Mass Oct. 24 at Don Guanella Village in Springfield, Delaware County, to commemorate the canonization of Blessed Don Louis Guanella.
On World Mission Sunday, Oct. 23, Pope Benedict XVI elevated Blessed Don Louis (Luigi) Guanella and two others to sainthood during a Mass of Canonization in St. Peter’s Square [...]
