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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Prep wins PCL, La Salle wins District 12
John KnebelsSports Columnist Of the Catholic League’s 14 golf programs St. Joseph’s Prep and La Salle were the two top teams this year. Just look at the evidence. After shooting a blistering 498 to win the Catholic League golf championship by eight strokes over second-place La Salle on Oct. 5 at Raven’s Claw Golf Club […]
Hallahan student earns praise as a ‘Good Samaritan’
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – Things happen in Philadelphia’s Kensington area. Sometimes it is good things, sometimes it is bad things. Passersby tend to just look straight ahead and keep walking. Good Samaritans aren’t easy to find. That’s not the case with Tyeriah Smith, a junior at John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls’ […]