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Shedding light on the vulnerable
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to the CS&T You don’t have to be a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart to be a true daughter of St. Frances Cabrini. Take Danielle Alio, a senior at Cabrini College in Radnor, which was founded by the Sacred Heart Sisters, a congregation established by Mother Cabrini, the United States’ first […]
Deacon promotes religious vocations
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to the CS&T Religious vocations, especially to ordained ministry, are important to Deacon Jack Betzal. For one thing he is a permanent deacon assigned to St. Joseph Parish in Aston, and for another, he is president of the DelChester Serra Club, part of the international organization that promotes religious vocations through prayer […]
Film work inspires Villanova student
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T It is no secret that many if not most of life’s important lessons are learned outside the classroom. What is perhaps less understood is that what one takes from these lessons can be equally affected by the experiences one brings to them. Miguel Gonzalez, a Villanova University student going […]
Roman student loves serving Jesus
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Approximately 165 teens and adults were honored at a Catholics in Youth Ministry Mass celebrated by Bishop Michael J. Fitzgerald at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul on May 11. The young people represented the future of the Church in Philadelphia, and the adults were those who […]
Unlikely vocation to religious life turns into 60 years
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Sister Kathleen Leary celebrates 60 years as a Sister of St. Joseph this year, and it’s a singular accomplishment that would flabbergast some of her teachers at Notre Dame High School in Moylan way back when. This was the kid who garnered more detentions than anyone in her freshman […]
Beatification brings joy to Polish couple
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T CONSHOHOCKEN – Jozef and Felicia Rzeznik of St. Mary Parish, Conshohocken, were thrilled and watched television when Pope John Paul II was beatified on May 1. They were living in Warsaw, Poland, in October 1978, when they received the unexpected news that Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Krakow was elected […]
Fifty years of influencing students
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to the CS&T VILLANOVA – Barbara spanirgilio didn’t set out to be a teacher. After attending Our Lady of Angels School in Philadelphia and the commercial program at West Catholic Girls High School in 1960, she went to work in an office, just as she intended. It only took six months for […]
Knight works to help the poor
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T George Fadgen, 71, who is chairman of the Philadelphia Chapter, Knights of Columbus Charity Drive, didn’t really discover the K of C until a little more than a decade ago. Fagden knew about the organization because his father was a Knight, and he remembers attending K of C picnics […]
Fulfilling needs beyond food
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T When Sister Barbara Tickner, I.H.M., who is now 75, was age 18 and deciding which religious congregation she would enter, it was a no-brainer. Born and raised in Manayunk, the daughter of Alice and Francis Tickner, she attended St. John the Baptist School, as did her sisters, Marie and […]
Chin helping Chinatown expand
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – John Chin, 44, who is the executive director of the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corp. (PCDC), like many first generation Americans, balances two distinct cultures. Although he lives in South Philadelphia instead of Chinatown proper, he retains his membership at Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church, where he and […]