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Principal security
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – During the day, Peter Balzano keeps students in line as the assistant principal for student services at Lansdale Catholic High School in Lansdale, Montgomery County. After the school bell – up until Oct. 23 – Balzano kept order at Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia as a […]
Wood girls top off perfect season with PCL title
Cross country By John KnebelsSports Columnist As she emerged from the woods with no one remotely close to her, Katie Rodden realized that she was less than one mile away from taking first place in the Philadelphia Catholic League cross country championship last Saturday, Oct. 23, at Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park. While spectators enthusiastically […]
Assumption sister marks 102nd year with joy and devotion
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T LANSDALE – Constancia Alingasa, in religion Assumption Sister Marie Clemencia, who now lives in retirement at St. Stanislaus Convent in Lansdale, was baptized and confirmed when she was three days old, something very unusual for a Roman Catholic. It was a different time and a different place; the Philippines […]
Rome diocese opens sainthood cause of Vietnamese cardinal
Web only By Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) – The Diocese of Rome formally opened the sainthood process for Vietnamese Cardinal Francois Nguyen Van Thuan, who spent 13 years in prison in communist Vietnam — nine of them in solitary confinement. {{more}} After he was freed by authorities in 1988, Pope John Paul II named […]
Intercessors of the Lamb suppressed in Neb.
By Catholic News Service OMAHA, Neb. – Saying that the step was necessary to “guard the liturgical and sacramental life of the Church,” Archbishop George J. Lucas of Omaha has suppressed a public association of hermits in his archdiocese and dismissed its 48 vowed members from religious life. “From this point forward, the Intercessors of […]
Cardinal encourages Cathedral pilgrimages
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Cardinal Justin Rigali is inviting pastors of the Archdiocese’s 267 parishes to sponsor a parish pilgrimage to the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul and to celebrate Mass there for their parishioners. “The Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, the Mother Church of our Archdiocese, […]
Catholic business network thrives
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – It’s called Catholic Business Professionals of Greater Philadelphia, and although it has only been around a little more than a year, it’s already making its mark. Let’s face it, the business world is a fairly ruthless place, and it isn’t always easy to be a good Catholic […]
Major initiative outlined
Cardinal calls for conversion, holiness, study of archdiocesan structures To read the Cardinal’s Pastoral Letter Click Here By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – In a new pastoral letter, Cardinal Justin Rigali has outlined a strategic plan to enable the local Church to meet the needs of the 21st century, utilizing as a blueprint […]
Rosary prayers petition for peace
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PAOLI – October 13, 1917. That was the date of the reported final visitation of our Lady to three small children in Fatima, Portugal. The message the children relayed to the world was a call to prayer, in particular the rosary, in reparation for sin as a means of […]
Girls bring first-ever PCL title to Lansdale Catholic
The girls tennis team made school history, defeating Cardinal O’Hara, 3-2 By John KnebelsSports Columnist For those out there who needed to take countless hours of lessons and pay an ungodly amount of money for one-on-one instruction before becoming good at the game of tennis, this might be a good time to stop reading. When […]