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For 45 years, family man builds funeral business
By John T. GillespieSpecial to The CS&T Bob D’Anjolell’s mother told him he didn’t have the skills to be a doctor or a lawyer. So this ambitious son of second generation Italian-Americans saved his money and borrowed $70,000 to start a funeral home in Philadelphia’s Overbrook section. That was in 1963. Today, Robert L. D’Anjolell […]
In the business of teaching girls modesty and fashion
By Nadia Maria SmithCS&T Staff Writer WYNDMOOR – Kim McBryan is turning out self-reliant, confident, little fashionistas with a modest flair through her innovative business, Miss Sew & Sew. McBryan, an English teacher at Regina Coeli Academy in Wyndmoor, decided to combine her love of teaching and sewing to start a business teaching students how […]
Our history of salvation according to St. Mark
Our spiritual journeySister Ruth Bolarte Throughout the liturgical year the Catholic Church celebrates the ministry of Jesus from His Incarnation to Pentecost, and the expectation of His second coming. The Sunday readings and solemnities are spanided into a three-year cycle. The cycles start the first week of Advent and each cycle has a main synoptic […]
Play time in Chester
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer CHESTER – “Cut that ribbon.” That was the chant of the happy children of Drexel Neumann Academy as they not-so-patiently waited for the unveiling of their new, $100,000 playground and basketball court. And when the ribbon was finally cut, the youngsters quickly abandoned the balloons they were holding and […]
Nuestra historia de salvación según san Marcos
Nuestro caminar spiritualHna. Ruth Bolarte A través del año litúrgico la I-glesia celebra el misterio de Cristo, desde su encarnación hasta el día de Pentecostés y la espera de su venida nuevamente. Para las lecturas de los domingos y fiestas hay un ciclo de tres años. Los ciclos se cuentan a partir de la primera […]
Local author pens book about grieving process
By Nadia Maria SmithCS&T Staff Writer “When Every Day Matters,” the new book by local Catholic author Mary Jane Hurley Brant, will bring comfort to anyone experiencing the death of a loved one. Hurley Brant, a psychotherapist and a parishioner of St. Thomas of Villanova Parish in Villanova, opens her heart to reveal her own […]
In his writings and life, St. Paul teaches how to pray
“It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me.” (Gal. 2:20)By Deacon Louis MalfaraSpecial to The CS&T I recently gave a talk to St. William Parish’s Sodality about praying the rosary as a contemplative method, citing the teaching of several saints. As I completed the homily, I remember being frozen in […]
Brothers in battle
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – If anyone had the poor taste to ask “Wild Bill” Guarnere how he lost his right leg, he’d growl, “A shark bit it off, don’t bother me.” For almost 50 years, he and his best buddy, Edward “Babe” Heffron, didn’t talk about their war experiences. Not to […]
Un experto en Pastoral Juvenil les habla a la juventud hispana local
Jóvenes del reinopor María Reyes «El respeto para la cultura es arraigado en la dignidad de personas hechas en la imagen de Dios. La Iglesia muestra su estima para esta dignidad trabajando para asegurar ese pluralismo, no asimilación y uniformidad, son el principio de la vida de comunidades eclesiales y las sociedades seculares». (La Presencia […]
Faithful citizens well prepared to vote
A final look before Election Day at the U.S. Bishops’ guide to forming conscience(Read the original four-part series here)By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T The voting booth and the confessional have a lot more in common than a curtain. Both are sacrosanct. The sins one tells in the confessional and the candidates one votes for […]