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Resilient Saints snag baseball title
By John KnebelsSports Columnist Borrowing a theme from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” Neumann-Goretti High School’ s baseball team was at one point dead as a doornail. Dead. Finished. Kaput. So how is it that Neumann-Goretti was able to capture its second Catholic League baseball title in three years by edging Monsignor Bonner, 3-1, in […]
Prep savors lacrosse championship win
John KnebelsSports Columnist Patience being a virtue, St. Joseph’s Prep lacrosse fans probably have earned some major purgatory points over the past several years. The goal? Win a Catholic League championship. The method? Find a way to defeat perennial champion and uber-rival juggernaut La Salle High School. The Prep’s faith was rewarded on a hot […]
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 […]
Honoring the memory of a fallen Marine
Malvern Prep crewBy George GregorySpecial to The CS&T Each Memorial Day, Americans pay tribute to the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation by holding public parades, wreath-laying ceremonies, and in reflective silence. But the rowing team at Malvern Preparatory School found a way to honor a fallen Marine from Texas […]
Local man set to tell story ‘with a moral’
By Elizabeth FisherSpecial to the CS&T Joseph Ruggiero is living yet another dream: The retired psychologist who founded Self-Help Inc., a successful long-term addiction treatment facility in Northeast Philadelphia, which was one of his dreams about 30 years ago, is on hand as the novel he wrote in 2002 becomes a movie. And according to […]
Deacons celebrate 25 years of ordained service in Archdiocese
To meet our new deacons, click here By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T As is their custom, permanent deacons from the Philadelphia Class of 1986 came together on Saturday, May 21, to celebrate the anniversary of their diaconal ordination. This celebration, with a Mass at St. Colman Church in Ardmore, was special: It was the […]
Evangelize modern world more effectively, Pope says
By Carol GlatzCatholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) – New evangelization means finding the most effective ways to proclaim the Gospel to a world that is either too distracted or too blind to see the spanine, Pope Benedict XVI said. Today’s spiritual crisis is marked by people excluding God from their lives, “generalized indifference” toward […]
Archdiocese welcomes Vicar for Cultural Ministries
CS&T Staff Report The Archdiocese of Philadelphia recently announced the establishment of a new administrative position, Vicar for Cultural Ministries, to oversee the Office for Hispanic Catholics, Office for Black Catholics and Office for Migrants and Refugees. Redemptorist Father Bruce Lewandowski, most recently the pastor of Visitation B.V.M. Parish in Philadelphia, has been named to […]
Crusaders nab softball title from Bambies
John KnebelsSports Columnist When Lansdale Catholic joined the Catholic League three years ago, one of the concerns was how long it would take for some of their athletic teams to compete with the more established programs. As for softball? Not a problem. Playing against three-time defending champion St. Hubert’s May 25 at Arcadia University, the […]
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 […]