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New Pa. Gov. Corbett touts school choice
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer HARRISBURG – Six days after Philadelphia native Tom Corbett was sworn in to office as the 46th governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, he declared Jan. 24-29 Pennsylvania School Choice Week to complement National School Choice Week efforts and activities. “Every child in Pennsylvania deserves a challenging, motivating, effective […]
Scholarship remembers local 9-11 victim
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Johanna Sigmund so loved and lived life to the fullest that after the 25-year-old perished in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, her family established an annual scholarship in her name to benefit a student in financial need at St. Malachy School […]
Teens help themselves by guiding little ones
Graduation rate for Providence Center’s teen mentors is 100 percent By George GregorySpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – In 1993, changing demographics in the Fairhill and Kensington sections of North Philadelphia prompted the Archdiocese to close three local parishes: St. Edward the Confessor, St. Bonaventure and St. Henry. As crime and violence increased in the […]
After battle with anorexia, teen educates peers
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Kaitlyn Bowman, 17, a junior at the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur in Villanova, used to hide food. No, she wasn’t an overeater, just the opposite. Her eating disorder was anorexia – she would hide the food so her family thought she ate it when she really didn’t. […]
Abortion doc faces murder charges
By John GillespieSpecial to The CS&T For Catholics and many others late-term abortions are a blatant assault on nature and human reason, the violent destruction of a child yet unborn but capable of living outside the womb. The Catholic Church teaches all abortions are wrong, but late-term or partial birth abortion seems especially egregious, the […]
400,000 gather for life
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T WASHINGTON – “It’s a great view from here.” That’s not in his official text but Cardinal Rigali could not help but remark upon it on Jan. 24 as he looked down from the pulpit to a filled Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. It […]
Healing War’s ‘Invisible wounds’
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Soldiers who return from war with post traumatic stress suffer hidden wounds that are comparable to those sustained by a bullet to the leg or arm. So said General Peter W. Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. Chiarelli (pronounced Corelli) is a practicing Catholic […]
1,000-point scorer shares joy with family, school
John KnebelsSports Columnist Lots of times an athlete will reach an amazing plateau and just shrug it off and pretend it wasn’t really a big deal. Refreshingly, that isn’t the way Lansdale Catholic senior Shea Wassel reacted when she became the 17th player – and seventh female – in school history to score 1,000 career […]
Twins for life
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Twins Maura and Briana Druding definitely have pro-life genes in them. Seniors at Archbishop Ryan High School in Northeast Philadelphia, they are lifers with Ryan for Life. Members since their freshman year, the girls made their fourth trek to Washington, D.C., for the annual Rally and March for Life […]
Doctor charged in baby deaths; Archdiocese calls actions ‘abhorrent’
Web Exclusive By Catholic News Service PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — A Philadelphia doctor who routinely performed illegal late-term abortions for more than 30 years was charged in the death of a female patient and accused of murdering seven babies born alive in his squalid health clinic. A grand jury indicted Kermit B. Gosnell and nine associates […]