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Dragon boat races are more than just sport for coach
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to the CS&T If you ever watched a dragon boat race you might think of it as sculling with pizzazz, what with the boat’s dragon head and tail and the beating of a drum to keep the paddlers in sync. There is a lot more to it than that, and for one […]
Knights make gift for life-saving ultrasound unit
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to the CS&T BRISTOL – One thing is certain as far as the Bucks County Women’s Community Center is concerned. A picture is worth far more than a thousand words. Thanks to fetal images generated by a $29,000 ultrasound machine donated by the Knights of Columbus, the center, which counsels and assists […]
Teaching religion in grade schools
By Elizabeth FisherSpecial to the CS&T Overheard at a recent high school graduation: “It won’t be easy to get the kids to church this summer. I don’t make them go during the year because they go to Mass all the time when they’re in school.” This story demonstrates in a very practical sense the awesome […]
CMI grads: A talent for evangelizing
By Elizabeth FisherSpecial to the CS&T Carpets of flowers, regular tours to shrines, ministry fairs and booklets for grieving families represent a spanerse collection of projects designed to reflect the Word of God on earth. They represent a small bouquet of the spanerse ideas that graduates of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Church Ministry Institute develop […]
Archdiocese launches child-safety training
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia this week launched a Mandatory Reporter Training program to increase the understanding among more than 24,000 clergy, employees, parish and school staff, coaches and volunteers regarding their role and responsibility in the mandated reporting of child abuse under the Pennsylvania Child Protective Services Law (CPSL). CPSL defines any person who comes […]
One Bread, one Body, one Lord of all
Corpus Christi Mass, procession at Shrine draw faithful from across Archdiocese By Elizabeth FisherSpecial to the CS&T DOYLESTOWN – Despite her ballerina-length white cotton dress, 16-year-old Kierstin Abbott fell to her knees on the flagstone-decked balcony of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown. She was following the example of hundreds of […]
Merion Mercy’s crew conquers Henley
By John KnebelsSports Columnist Seven years ago, Merion Mercy Academy instituted a rowing program. Seven years later, the all-girls school completed an international conquest. During a weeklong excursion at the prestigious Henley Regatta in England, the Golden Bears stunned the competition in four consecutive races over a 48-hour period. Their crowning achievement occurred June 19, […]
Unforgettable run for Catholic League players
John KnebelsSports Columnist When some of the best baseball players in the area faced off in the 25th annual Carpenter Cup Classic’s 16-team tournament, the Philadelphia Catholic League had a legitimate chance to capture its fourth title. New Jersey’s Burlington County had other ideas. After winning two games in dramatic fashion to reach the semifinals, […]
Teen focuses on true meaning of manhood
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Collin Sceski, 19, a member of Sacred Heart Parish, Oxford, recently won a $1,500 scholarship that will come in handy as he begins his studies at Villanova University. It was the grand prize in an essay contest for teens sponsored by Ascension Press, and the topic was Blessed Pope […]
St. Maximilian Parish marks 25th anniversary
West Chester Parish grows from 670 families to 2,400 todayBy Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T In 1986 Cardinal John Krol authorized the foundation of the Philadelphia Archdiocese’s first entirely new parish in a decade in what was then considered Westtown (now part of West Chester), Perhaps in a tip to his own Polish heritage, he […]