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Once-obscure water polo swelling with interest
At Malvern Prep and La Salle the sport makes a splash John KnebelsSports Columnist Only two area Catholic high schools offer water polo as a varsity sport. If you have ever been to a water polo contest, you probably wish there were more. “It really is a great sport,” said Steve Duncheskie, a 1994 La […]
Wood stuns O’Hara in title match
John KnebelsSports Columnist Even though most thought it was a tad far-fetched, Archbishop Wood’s volleyball team truly believed it was good enough to win the Philadelphia Catholic League championship this year. Lo and behold, the Vikings were correct. Led by several players who took charge from the opening serve, Wood stunned regular-season champion Cardinal O’Hara […]
Living out the ‘American dream’
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – Immigration is a hot button issue these days, but it has always been so. We are a land of immigrants, and in every generation the path to America has often been hazardous. Barbara Fischer, 78, who is of German ethnicity and a member of Our Lady Help […]
At four schools, high math goes high tech
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Question: The principal of St. Richard School in South Philadelphia is teaching advanced math to 21 fifth-graders and 19 sixth-graders. However, only 10 are actually St. Richard students. How can this be? Answer: Courtesy of a Connelly Foundation initiative, Stephen Hewitt is teaching advanced math to a […]
Archbishop Wood is first high school to try on ‘Exploration 21’
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T WARMINSTER – LabLearner, the innovative computer-based science curriculum utilized by about 30 area parochial schools, has graduated and is going on to high school. This year, as a first in the country, it is being continued through “Exploration 21” a science course offered to freshmen at Archbishop Wood High […]
At seminary, focus on ‘eucharistic love’
New rector of St. Charles By Christie L. Chicoine CS&T Staff Writer Father Shaun L. Mahoney, 51, was assigned as rector of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood in July. The youngest of three sons of Joseph and Edna Mahoney was raised in St. Matthias Parish in Bala Cynwyd. He has a multiple degrees including […]
Voting with faith and reason
Growing spanide seen in political worldviews of Catholic subgroups Click here to read the Candidates QuestionnaireBy Nancy Frazier O’BrienCatholic News Service WASHINGTON – As in other recent election years, Catholic voting behavior is likely to resemble the voting of the population at large, but there is a growing spanide in the political worldviews of various […]
All Saints Day, Nov. 1; All Souls Day, Nov. 2
The Solemnity of All Saints is Monday, Nov. 1. Because All Saints Day falls on a Monday, the obligation to attend Mass that day is suppressed. However, Masses commemorating All Saints Day will be celebrated across the Archdiocese. All Souls Day, the commemoration of the faithful departed, is Tuesday, Nov. 2. Although All Souls Day […]
U.S. swimmer Francis Crippen, 26, a Catholic from Conshohocken dies during competition east of Dubai
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer Francis E. Crippen, a member of the U.S. National Swim Team and a 1998 alumnus of Conshohocken Catholic Elementary School, died Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 during an international swimming competition east of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. He was 26 years old and a member of St. Matthew […]
The littlest superhero
Parish holds up courageous boy and his family with loveBy Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff WriterBLUE BELL – Call him the little engine that could.Five-year-old John Shapiro, a kindergartener at St. Helena School in Blue Bell, Montgomery County, wants to be a firefighter when he grows up.But the blond-haired boy with the dancing blue eyes whose […]