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Hurricane season: Church as first responder in Latin America, Caribbean
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (CNS) — On the little islands that make up the Caribbean's Lesser Antilles, there is not much in the way of protection from the annual wrath of the Atlantic hurricane season. Every year from hurricane season's start on June 1 until the end of peak months — August through October — […]
St. Katharine Regional School’s students pray at their patron’s tomb
Students and teachers of the new St. Katharine Drexel Regional School in Holland shared a special day at the resting place of the school’s namesake, the St. Katharine Drexel Shrine in Bensalem, where they prayed before the saint’s tomb at the Motherhouse of the Blessed Sacrament Sisters Sept. 26. The school was formed by combining […]
First-ever night game played at Cardinal O’Hara High School
On Friday, September 28, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Cardinal O’Hara High School, 1701 South Sproul Road, Springfield, Delaware County, was the first Catholic League Team to host a night football game on their home campus under the lights.
Vendors needed for Feasterville parish’s craft fair
Vendors are invited to display their goods at the craft fair of Assumption B.V.M. Parish, Feasterville, on Saturday, Nov. 3 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Assumption B.V.M. is located at 1900 Meadowbrook Avenue, Feasterville, Bucks county. For information call Patsy at 215-364-2435.
Bingo at Bucks County parish
Assumption B.V.M. Parish, Feasterville, hosts Bingo games Friday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. For information call Joan Corcoran at 215-612-1029.
Wine and cheese at St. Barbara’s
The St. Barbara Social Trendsetters are sponsoring a Wine & Cheese Social on Saturday, Oct. 20, 7 to 11 p.m. in the St. Barbara Parish Hall, 54th St. and Lebanon Avenue, Philadelphia. Tickets are $25 per person. Join us and experience an array of delicious cheeses and other tasteful tidbits along with fruitful and bubbly […]
Cardinal Rigali had back stage pass to Vatican II’s proceedings
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) -- Cardinal Justin Rigali, former archbishop of Philadelphia and St. Louis who is currently in residence in Knoxville, was a priest assistant at the Second Vatican Council -- a spot that essentially gave him a backstage pass. The significance wasn't lost on the then-27-year-old Los Angeles priest, who called it a privilege to play a minor role at the council.
Catholic group enlists young adults to help people ‘lift themselves up’
BALTIMORE (CNS) -- When Towana Bowers-Scott looks at Anthony Newman, she doesn't see a youthful do-gooder spending his second post-college year doing a year of service for a Catholic organization. The 30-year-old Baltimore high school dropout sees a tireless tutor determined to help her pass her GED high-school equivalency exam. "He don't give up on us," Bowers-Scott said, following a tutoring session with Newman at the McElderry Park Community Resource Center in an east Baltimore neighborhood littered with boarded-up houses and all of the markings of extreme poverty.
Sister Catherine Shean, M.M.S.
Sister Catherine Shean, M.M.S., a Medical Mission Sister who lived at St. Joseph’s Manor in Philadelphia, died Oct. 1 in Philadelphia. She was 97 years old. After receiving her diploma as a registered nurse from St. Vincent’s Hospital inNew Yorkin 1937, Sister Catherine worked as a nurse at several health facilities before entering the Medical […]
Papal butler says he’s innocent of theft, but guilty of betraying pope
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Paolo Gabriele, the papal butler charged with stealing and leaking papal correspondence, said he was innocent of charges of aggravated theft, but "I feel guilty for having betrayed the trust the Holy Father placed in me." "I loved him like a son," Gabriele said of the pope during the second day of his trial. The morning session of the trial Oct. 2 also featured brief testimony by Cristina Cernetti, one of the consecrated laywomen who work in the papal apartment; and longer testimony by Msgr. Georg Ganswein, Pope Benedict XVI's personal secretary.