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St. Luke teacher receives accolade
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer GLENSIDE – Had Elva M. FitzGerald not put family first, she most likely would be working as a forest ranger today. Instead, FitzGerald, 56, has devoted nearly three decades to a teaching career at St. Luke the Evangelist School in Glenside, a job that came to be when she […]
Defending state champ Carroll still best in CL
Girls basketball review By John KnebelsSpecial to The CS&T When you are the defending state champion, every team comes at you with an advantage. After all, beating the best immediately puts a team on the map, so the incentive factor goes to the underdog. Archbishop Carroll’s girls understand all of that first hand. After seizing […]
Blessings by St. John Neumann continue today
Philadelphia celebrates 150th anniversary of saintly bishop’s deathBy Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann, C.SS.R., was just 49 when he dropped dead on the street at 13th and Vine Jan. 5, 1860. He was given a grand funeral of course, befitting his ministry as bishop. According to his biography, there was a […]
Cardinal asks Catholics to contact legislators
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer Cardinal Justin Rigali is calling on the priests of the Philadelphia Archdiocese’s 267 parishes to ask their parishioners to urge Congress to make sure that abortion funding is not included in health care reform legislation. “Your swift action and prayers in the cause of this urgent nationwide effort are […]
Meeting at North Catholic explores options
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T If they can pull it off – and it’s by no means certain – Philadelphia may be in for an innovative form of niche Catholic secondary education that has proved highly successful in 24 cities around the country. And the alumni of Northeast Catholic High School will have scored […]
Cardinal urges Catholics to sign declaration
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer Cardinal Justin Rigali is asking all Catholics of the Archdiocese to join him in signing the “Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience,” an unprecedented national document that unites the voices of Catholics with other Christians to give witness to the sanctity of human life in all stages and […]
A lifetime devoted to catechesis
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer HILLTOWN – Catechist. Director of Parish Religious Education for the Philadelphia Archdiocese. President of the Archdiocesan DRE Association. Coordinator of Assessment in the Office of the Catechism of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Award honoree. Marie C. Scanlon, 71, has held many catechetical titles, […]
Changes coming next year in Catholic League
John KnebelsSpecial to The CS&T When the 2010-11 academic year begins, the Philadelphia Catholic League will sport a significantly different look. For purists who have implored a return to a single league champion, they will get their wish in every sport except football. For progressives who have thoroughly enjoyed the PCL’s exposure to the Pennsylvania […]
Hamels visits St. Max to promote healthy habits
By Joanna ArmandiCS&T Sports Editor WEST CHESTER – Spring training is a little over a month away, but Phillies fever has spread early at St. Maximilian Kolbe School in West Chester thanks to eighth-grader Bernadette Tankle. Tankle, 14, had the winning essay in the “I Pitch for Dairy” contest sponsored by the Phillies, the Mid-Atlantic […]
Two decades as a ‘seminary mother’
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer WYNNEWOOD – A wife and mother of five grown daughters, the executive secretary of the Archdiocese’s Vocation Office for the Diocesan Priesthood at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary always believed she would have a son. God works in mysterious ways. “I always wanted a little boy,” said Lucille Nazzario, 68, […]