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Love of faith, science nurtured at Cabrini
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Katie Mageeney is still a senior at Cabrini College in Radnor, but she’s something of an expert in the field of mycobacteriophages (viruses that affect bacteria) and can look to a bright future in health research. She has been published in the scholarly journal BioScience, and in a peer […]
Delco. mother devoted to helping expectant mothers
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Helen McBlain, who was recently appointed executive director of Mother’s Home, a residence on MacDade Boulevard in Darby that provides shelter to women with crisis pregnancies, brings to the table a lifetime of commitment to the poor in spirit. Just to mention a few items of her resume, she […]
Faith meets expertise
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Mary Flannery, who was recently appointed director of marketing and public relations at Malvern Retreat House, the nation’s largest Catholic retreat center, had quite a different career plan when she entered college. After childhood in Blue Bell and education at Gwynedd-Mercy Academy, she entered Georgetown University, where she graduated […]
Twins for life
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Twins Maura and Briana Druding definitely have pro-life genes in them. Seniors at Archbishop Ryan High School in Northeast Philadelphia, they are lifers with Ryan for Life. Members since their freshman year, the girls made their fourth trek to Washington, D.C., for the annual Rally and March for Life […]
At 86, a priest still on the move
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Father Joseph T. Murphy takes seriously the line from his ordination rite almost 64 years ago, “Thou art a priest forever.” Despite his 86 years and having suffered a stroke last year he still celebrates Mass regularly for the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart in Wyncote and the people […]
Continuous commitment to the Church
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Joe Briscella’s parents knew what they were doing when they gave him his baptismal name. Like his great patron saint, Joe is really a behind-the-scenes guy. Think of him as an ordinary man who does extraordinary things. “I don’t like things to be about myself,” he said. “I’m a […]
Life-long city man promotes vocations from inner city
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Royal E. (Gene) Brown believes in commitment. Although he is a vice president of treasury services for Independence Blue Cross, where he has been employed for 34 years, and could live anywhere he wants, he’s still committed to his South Philadelphia neighborhood of birth and St. Charles Borromeo Parish. […]
Faith cornerstone of shop, owner
By Elizabeth FisherSpecial to The CS&T Ava Puma once earned a six-figure income and drove a Porsche. She lived the good life until a terrible accident changed her forever. Now, she said, she lives a more blessed life. Puma is the owner of the Ave Maria Shop, a vast Catholic religious store in Morrisville that […]
Uniting Iraqi families in America
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T UPPER UWCHLAN – Jesus never elaborated much about the Good Samaritan, other than that he saw a need and acted when others didn’t. Chances are, he wasn’t coming down that road to purposely do a good deed, and he probably looked around to make certain the robbers who assaulted […]
Fulfillment found in service to noted addiction rehab
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T KING OF PRUSSIA — Karl Sprow, a community relations representative for Father Martin’s Ashley in Havre de Grace, Md., bases his own spirituality on the Serenity Prayer of American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: “God grant me the serenity to change accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the […]