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Bishop Shanahan HS welcomes prospective students, families
Bishop Shanahan High School in Downingtown will host an eighth grade Visitation Day on Thursday, Nov. 14 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Interested eighth grade students from public and private high schools should register online at http://www.shanahan.org/ (see the Admissions tab). Students from parochial schools should register through their elementary schools. On Sunday, Nov. 17, Shanahan […]
Ancillae-Assumpta wins grant to study local historic sites
Representatives from ING's Unsung Heroes Award program presented administrators from Ancillae-Assumpta Academy in Wyncote with a $2,000 grant for its winning program aimed to help students make a connection between the area where the students go to school and the history they study. The Montgomery County school was one of three winners in Pennsylvania.
Ancillae-Assumpta Academy names Lintner new director
Ancillae-Assumpta Academy in Wyncote, Montgomery County, has named Amy Lintner as its new director. Sister Dorothy Beck, U.S. provincial superior of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, made the announcement Oct. 2.
Parishioners form self-defense groups in crime-ridden Mexican state
MEXICO CITY (CNS) -- Some at St. James the Apostle Parish formed self-defense groups earlier this year to protect themselves from extortion attempts and attacks by organized criminal groups in a rural pocket of Mexico's western Michoacan state. Others from the region known as Tierra Caliente fled to the United States, said Father Andres Larios, pastor at St. James in Coalcoman.
Photo of the day
Rosalyn Paye, 2, paints a pumpkin during a fall festival at St. John Bosco School in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., Oct. 27. (CNS photo/Sam Lucero, The Compass)
EWTN files second lawsuit against HHS mandate; Alabama is co-plaintiff
MOBILE, Ala. (CNS) — The Eternal Word Television Network, joined by the state of Alabama, has filed another lawsuit challenging the federal mandate requiring most employers to provide coverage of contraceptives, sterilizations and some abortion-inducing drugs free of charge. The suit was filed Oct. 28 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of […]
In North Philadelphia, there’s Hope for middle schoolers
Finding a home can require patience and persistence. One person who knows that firsthand is Mercy Sister Rose Martin, executive director of Hope Partnership for Education. It took more than 10 years to find a permanent site in North Philadelphia for Hope Partnership, a private nonprofit middle school run as a partnership between the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and the Sisters of Mercy.
Parishioners learn the Catholic way of door-to-door evangelization
When sisters in traditional habit come knocking at the door of a home they almost always receive respectful treatment, re gardless of whether the people are practicing Catholics or not. But there is something to be said for lay ministers doing the work too, “because they are just like the people who open the door,” said Mother Carole Marie Troskowski, who led a training session for 50 Catholic parish leaders at SS. Simon and Jude Parish, West Chester.
Judge to face Lansdale for boy soccer championship
Father Judge shut out Archbishop Ryan’s boys soccer team in the semi finals on October 26. Later that day Roman Catholic High School suffered a heartbreaking defeat in overtime to Lansdale Catholic. Lansdale’s #13 junior Jake Saba fed the ball to #16 senior Michael Lewis who broke away to win the game. The championship game […]
Washington cathedral, site of Kennedy funeral in ’63, is ‘holy ground’
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- On Nov. 25, 1963, a television audience of millions of people around the world prayerfully bid farewell to President John F. Kennedy, as his flag-draped coffin was placed before the sanctuary of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, during the funeral Mass for the slain president.