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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 […]
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 […]
Cure of Glen Mills man final step to sainthood
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer GLEN MILLS – Look no further than the backyard of the Philadelphia Archdiocese to meet the recipient of the final miracle needed for the Oct. 23 canonization of Blessed Luigi Guanella, an Italian priest of the 19th and early 20th centuries who founded the Servants of Charity. The congregation […]
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 […]
A deacon for life
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Deacon Alvin (Al) Clay III, 53, who is assigned to Immaculate Conception Parish in Jenkintown where he has been a parishioner for the last 18 years, will be honored Feb. 27 by Pennsylvanians for Human Life (PHL) at their annual Celebrate Life Banquet at the Springfield Country Club. Deacon […]
St. Hubert wins first indoor title
By John KnebelsSports Columnist He just keeps getting better. Already an athlete with an impressive resume in both football and track, Cardinal O’Hara senior Tyler Gallen entered the Catholic League indoor track championship on Feb. 6 at Widener University with nothing to prove. But when you are an established athlete, motivation comes from within. “Anything […]