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Grief workshop on Oct. 24 for inspaniduals, groups
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer ROSEMONT – “A Time to Mourn: A Workshop on Grief and Loss,” will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Rosemont Chapel of St. Thomas of Villanova Parish in Rosemont. Sponsored by the Archdiocese’s Family Life Office, the workshop is geared to guide […]
Ryan volleyball team rallies for organ donation
By John KnebelsSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – Kelsey Keen wants to be treated just like everyone else. She wants to go where her friends go and do the things her friends do. So since most of her friends do not have a benefit organized in their honor, or plan an annual celebration to commemorate […]
Forty days of prayer and witness
Participants from Bucks, Montgomery and Chester Counties prepare for annual pro-life campaign By Lou BaldwinSpecial to the CS&T It’s called 40 Days for Life. It’s a movement that combines prayerful fasting, witnessing and community outreach, all with the goal of ending abortion. It began five years ago in Texas with witness before a few abortion-providing […]
Prep fights back to beat rival La Salle
By John KnebelsSpecial to The CS&T PLYMOUTH MEETING – From the reaction of the fans on both sides of the rain-drenched stands at Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School Sept. 26, one could have mistaken the just-completed football contest as the Catholic League championship. In truth, it was just an early-season boxing match between two elite Catholic League […]
When teens ‘hook up,’ what’s a parent to do?
By Arlene EdmondsSpecial to The CS&T More and more single teens and young adults are “hooking up” instead of engaging in traditional courtship rituals, dating or cultivating platonic friendships with the opposite sex. Instead some are meeting purely for sexual encounters with casual friends or even acquaintances with no intimacy and no strings attached. In […]
Catholic education is worth the sacrifice
Going to Monsignor Bonner was important to John Sullivan, so he saved up and paid tuition his senior year By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T DREXEL HILL – Last year, when John Sullivan was working evenings and weekends behind the counter wrapping meat and waiting on customers at Roy Tweedy’s Old Fashioned Butcher Shop in […]
Gleaning garden established to feed those in need
By George GregorySpecial to The CS&T WEST BRANDYWINE – A joint effort in West Brandywine Township between Community Gardens of Chester County and St. Peter Parish hopes to bear fruit (and vegetables) to live the Gospel by helping to feed the poor and hungry. Father Michael Fitzpatrick, pastor of St. Peter Parish, and members of […]
Leading youths to a culture of life
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer WEST CHESTER – Cristina M. Barba, program director of Generation Life, is revved up about Respect Life Month, which the Church celebrates in October. Headquartered in West Chester, Generation Life is a movement of young people committed to building a culture of life by spreading the messages of life […]
Hip-hop mission of Mercy
By JIM GAUGERSpecial to The CS&T “Mercy gonna be bringing hope to all of those in needUsing our skills and helping out where we’re called to be.” – Operation Team Katrina rap song PHILADELPHIA – For the fourth straight year, students from Mercy Vocational High School in the Nicetown section of Philadelphia spent their Easter […]
Local Catholics frame response to immigration challenges
By Denise PetersonSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – About 90 Catholics from the Philadelphia Archdiocese gathered at Our Lady of Ransom Parish’s gymnasium on Sept. 11 for a leadership meeting on immigration reform. Participants included clergy, religious and lay Catholics from the five counties, as well as representatives from other dioceses in Pennsylvania and Catholic […]