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Neumann-Goretti leads Catholic League
John KnebelsSports Columnist The current Catholic League basketball standings could imitate Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities.” The first seven teams have records from 8-0 to 6-2. The other seven? None has a winning record. “Things can change because there is still a lot of basketball left,” said Neumann-Goretti junior Derrick Stewart. “A lot […]
Editor keeps faith in mind
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&TFebruary happens to be Catholic Press Month, and while the newspaper Phil Heron edits, the Delaware County Daily Times, is a secular paper, he is Catholic. For that matter, many of its almost 40,000 subscribers in heavily Catholic Delaware County are probably also Catholic. Sacred Heart Parish in Oxford, where […]
In health care ethics, bishop’s authority affirmed
By Nancy Frazier O’BrienCatholic News ServiceWASHINGTON (CNS) – In an exchange of letters with the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the head of the Catholic Health Association has affirmed that the local bishop is the “authoritative interpreter” of the ethical and religious directives that guide Catholic health care.Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter […]
Children pray at saintly bishop’s shrine
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&t Staff WriterPHILADELPHIA – The step near 13th and Vine Streets where St. John Neumann collapsed on an icy sidewalk before his death 151 years ago is displayed in the museum of the National Shrine of St. John Neumann at St. Peter the Apostle Church at Fifth Street and Girard Avenue in […]
Schools adopt new core curriculum standards
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff WriterPHILADELPHIA – To propel 21st century children intellectually into the global world, the archdiocesan Office for Catholic Education is instituting the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a national curriculum program lauded as a rigorous and relevant launch pad of learning.The Archdiocese is preparing to implement the common core standards this […]
Archdiocese recognizes distinguished graduates
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&TGraduates of Catholic schools within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia make a difference. In keeping with a tradition begun in 1991, on Jan. 29 the Archdiocese presented Distinguished Graduate Awards to three inspaniduals and one group.Honored during the ceremony, which was held at the Crystal Tea Room in Philadelphia’s Wanamaker Building, […]
New bill supports school choice
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer HARRISBURG – A bill currently winding its way through the chambers of the Pennsylvania Senate is straightforward and resolute: school choice is the right choice for Catholics and non-Catholics of the Commonwealth.Senate Bill 1, the Opportunity Scholarship Act, was introduced into legislation Jan. 26 and subsequently referred to the […]
Healing War’s ‘Invisible wounds’
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Soldiers who return from war with post traumatic stress suffer hidden wounds that are comparable to those sustained by a bullet to the leg or arm. So said General Peter W. Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. Chiarelli (pronounced Corelli) is a practicing Catholic […]
New Pa. Gov. Corbett touts school choice
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer HARRISBURG – Six days after Philadelphia native Tom Corbett was sworn in to office as the 46th governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, he declared Jan. 24-29 Pennsylvania School Choice Week to complement National School Choice Week efforts and activities. “Every child in Pennsylvania deserves a challenging, motivating, effective […]
Scholarship remembers local 9-11 victim
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Johanna Sigmund so loved and lived life to the fullest that after the 25-year-old perished in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, her family established an annual scholarship in her name to benefit a student in financial need at St. Malachy School […]