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Immaculate Heart sister who served at St. Katherine in Wayne dies at 91
One of eight children of an Easton, Pa. family, Sister M. Ann Dorothy Gittings, I.H.M., served in archdiocesan schools and her home parish's school.
Dominican sister who gave retreats in Elkins Park dies at 104
Dominican Sister of Peace Josefina Rivera-Ortiz was a native of Puerto Rico. In addition to serving at Dominican Retreat House, she also worked at the Dominican Residence for Women in Philadelphia.
Catholic League baseball standings
Team standings for the league's Red and Blue divisions, through May 1.
Catholic Academies League softball standings
League standings through May 1.
Warrington school to host 5K run
Runners will start and finish the race at St.Joseph/St. Robert School at 7 p.m. May 16. Children will run a 1K preceding the 5K.
Vatican statistics report church growth remains steady worldwide
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The number of Catholics in the world -- 1.228 billion -- and the number of priests and deacons increased in 2012, while the number of women religious continued to decline. Permanent deacons have increased 17 percent since 2007.
Cristo Rey Philadelphia seeing school growth, student success
Two years after the independent Catholic high school was begun in the city, it is now thriving and ready to expand in the fall. The at-risk students are working hard in the classroom and at their temporary corporate jobs, part of the Cristo Rey program.
Archbishop says botched execution highlights brutality of death penalty
OKLAHOMA CITY (CNS) -- Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City said the botched execution April 29 of an Oklahoma inmate "highlights the brutality of the death penalty" and should bring the nation to "consider whether we should adopt a moratorium on the death penalty or even abolish it altogether."
Path to priesthood began with, ‘Could you be a priest?’
That one question by a pastor led amicable and athletic Sean English from Drexel Hill to Lehigh University to St. Charles Seminary – and to ordination as a priest in just two weeks. See our fourth in a series on the men to be ordained priests May 17.
Vatican hopes U.N. committee resists ‘ideological pressure’ at hearing
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Days before a Vatican delegation was to appear before a U.N. committee, the Vatican's spokesman said he hoped the hearing would focus on implementation of an international treaty against torture and not be manipulated to focus instead on the clerical sexual abuse crisis.