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Neumann-Goretti making history
3rd straight undefeated seasonJohn KnebelsSports Columnist SS. Neumann-Goretti’s basketball team has come and been replaced by … nobody. And since all but one of their standout players are underclassmen, one gets the distinct feeling that the Saints won’t be replaced by anyone else anytime soon. Despite clanking free throw after free throw to keep its […]
Wood girls grab league crown
John KnebelsSports Columnist Relief was a major part of it. So was pride. But according to the players and coaches that celebrated Archbishop Wood’s Catholic League basketball championship victory over Archbishop Carroll Monday night at the Palestra, the overriding feeling that accompanied the school’s first league title since 1982 was joy. Pure, unbridled joy. “It […]
A man of accomplishment
In 1945, when Meryll Frost was recognized as the most courageous athlete of the year, he said, “I am not a great man, but there is a great woman behind me.” Ask Rosalie Mirenda, president of Neumann University in Aston, recipient of many distinguished awards, and she will tell you she isn’t a great woman […]
April events
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia Catholic Charismatic Renewal will host a special Lenten conference Saturday, March 31 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Father Judge High School in Northeast Philadelphia. Guest speaker will be Tim Francis, founder of You Shall Believe Ministries. For more information, visit www.phillyspirit.com
Seven parish schools to close in Archdiocese
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to the CS&T The Office for Catholic Education announced on Feb. 28 four parochial schools in Philadelphia and three in Bucks County will close at the end of the current school year due to low enrollment. The city schools that will close are Ascension of Our Lord, Kensington; St. Anne, Kensington; St. […]
The future is at Our Lady Help of Christians School
Middle school students win national engineering competition By Lou BaldwinSpecial to the CS&T News flash – middle school kids (seventh and eighth graders) from Our Lady Help of Christians School, Abington, took the grand prize at the 2011 National Engineers Week Future City Competition finals held in Washington D.C. Feb. 18-22. To do so they […]
Williams calls school choice ‘moral imperative’
By John T. GillespieSpecial to the CS & T Philadelphia State Senator Anthony H. Williams invokes the language of the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr. when arguing for school choice. As lead cosponsor of a bill in Harrisburg to give low-income parents tuition vouchers to transfer their children from failing public schools […]
Slaying the SAT dragon
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer Students who dread taking the PSAT or SAT might want to consider their academic conquests dragons and themselves modern-day dragon-slayers. So suggests Patricia Sisca Pace, a test preparation instructor and retreat director who has coached numerous Catholic school students across the Archdiocese through her program, “A Holistic Approach to […]
Order grows as it helps women, children
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Medical Mission Sister Sylvia Strahler, who has been missioned to Pakistan for the past 50 years, knows annual monsoons are a fact of life. But nothing prepared her for the flooding from the monsoon of last August, which at one point had 20 percent of the entire country under […]
More than 30,000 Nairobi children gather for Mass with cardinal, guests
By Barb FrazeCatholic News Service NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) – More than 30,000 children from the Archdiocese of Nairobi had been sitting in Mass Feb. 19 for nearly four hours when the tall American priest taught them to howl like a wolf. “When wolves are far apart, a wolf makes a special call, and it goes […]