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Inner-city kids learn math through baseball fantasy league in CSS program
Fifty North Philadelphia children flexed their math muscles on Saturday, June 8, at the Cardinal Bevilacqua Community Center in Kensington by using baseball as a way to teach math concepts. Fourth- to eighth-grade students of local public and parochial schools and community-based organizations spent the last four months using the program to build fantasy teams, analyze data and play simulated baseball games with their peers, all while demonstrating their math ability on baseball statistics and developing critical thinking and decision-making skills.
Priest retirements announced
The following priests of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia have been named pastor emeritus or have retired. CatholicPhilly.com wishes each priest many more years in the Lord's service -- ad multos annos!
Clergy assignment changes announced
Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia, announces the following appointments effective July 1, 2013: PAROCHIAL VICAR Reverend Angelo J. Hernandez, from Coordinator, Hispanic Ministry, Delaware County, to Parochial Vicar, Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia RESIDENCE Reverend Steven J. Harris, Staff, Office of the Metropolitan Tribunal and Chancery Office, from […]
June 30 set aside for ‘Justice for Immigrants’ day in Philadelphia
Sunday, June 30 is “Sunday for Justice for Immigrants” in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput announced June 7. He will celebrate a Mass for the intention of justice for immigrants at 6:30 p.m. on June 30 at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia. The archbishop encouraged all people in Southeastern Pennsylvania to respond to the issue of immigration on that day in three ways.
For 48 years in Catholic schools, Chaykowsky made friends, influenced students
Forty-eight years is a long run in any profession. When Helen Chaykowsky, the principal at Archbishop Ryan High School, retires this month, that’s how many years she will have had in Catholic education. "I wish everyone could find a career that would make them as happy as I have been," she said. "I became the woman I am because of my experience. I loved every minute of it, and now I feel ready for whatever plan God has for me.”
Pa. Senate passes abortion opt-out for federal health care exchanges
The Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill June 5 that prohibits taxpayer funding of abortions in the federal health care exchanges. Without a state health care exchange under the federal health care law, Pennsylvanians would choose from the federal exchanges, which include abortion coverage. The law allowed for state legislation to ban abortion funding in the federal exchanges for residents of the state, which the new bill accomplished. Gov. Tom Corbett has promised to sign the bill.
Archbishop Chaput, Vatican official, offer prayers in wake of city building collapse
The collapse of two buildings in center city Philadelphia June 5 that left six people dead and more than a dozen injured drew the attention of Catholic leaders, including those at the Vatican. Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, wrote a letter June 6 to Archbishop Charles Chaput expressing sympathy for the victims and pledging prayers.
Parish-to-parish procession celebrates the Eucharist in Bucks County
When St. Ignatius of Antioch Parish, Yardley, and St. John the Evangelist Parish, Morrisville, held their second annual joint Corpus Christi Procession on June 2, they were following a time-honored tradition that one does not usually see in this part of the world. Locally it traces back a couple of years ago to when Lisa Kopernowski, a member of St. Ignatius Parish, saw a Corpus Christi procession from somewhere in Europe on the Internet, and she was intrigued. “What a great idea,” she thought, “why don’t we have Corpus Christi processions in America?”
Papal honors bestowed on two local Catholics
Donna Farrell, the former communications director for the Philadelphia Archdiocese and Richard V. McCarron, former archdiocesan secretary of Catholic education, both received papal recognition at a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput June 2 at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul.
15 men ordained deacons at Cathedral
Archbishop Charles Chaput ordained 15 married men of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to the permanent diaconate on Saturday, June 1 at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. Almost all of the new deacons are college graduates and in keeping with the trend of Catholic migration to the suburbs, only one is a member of a Philadelphia parish.