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St. James, Holy Martyrs schools to close in June
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer St. James School in Elkins Park and Holy Martyrs School in Oreland, both in Montgomery County, will close at the end of the school year in June due to declining enrollments and increasing operational costs. However, the St. James Early Childhood Education Center for kindergartners and children ages 3 […]
Eagle Scout brings Stations to high school
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer DREXEL HILL – Refurbishing a set of the Stations of the Cross helped 18-year-old Matthew Ryan earn his Eagle Scout badge. It also served as a reminder to the Monsignor Bonner High School senior of Easter’s salvific message. “Every time I walk by them, I just think of what […]
Archbishop Wood girls prove they’re best in Pa.
By John KnebelsSports Columnist Basketball doesn’t sell tickets because spectators enjoy watching defense. But as just about any veteran coach will preach, playing defense might not be pretty, but it is the key ingredient to winning. The girls’ basketball team from Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster concurs. Although they endured longer-than-comfortable streaks of inept […]
Saints bring state hoops title to South Philly
John KnebelsSports Columnist A passing comment wasn’t meant for dissecting. More than anything else, it was just food for thought. Then Carl Arrigale starting thinking about it. “You know,” he said, “when you put it that way.” Neumann-Goretti edged Chartiers Valley 65-63 in the PIAA Class AAA state championship March 26 at Penn State University’s […]
Overnight youth retreat a ‘powerful experience’
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T LIMERICK – Father Paul Brandt nailed it in his Saturday morning homily. The 8 a.m. Mass March 27 at Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Limerick, which ended the overnight youth retreat, was a grand finale and had all of the elements of the spiritual journey of Lent. It […]
Sister recounts forgiveness in Rwanda
By George GregorySpecial to The CS&T NEWTOWN SQUARE – One of the greatest tragedies in human history was revisited during a moving and heart-wrenching presentation held at St. Anastasia School in Newtown Square March 16. There was hardly a dry eye in the room as Sister of St. Joseph Catherine Nerny recounted her 2006 visit […]
Workshops on new missal scheduled for April
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer In anticipation of the revised English translation of the Roman Missal, the archdiocesan Office for Worship is conducting regional informational assemblies for the lay faithful April 15, 20 and 29. “Everyone is encouraged to attend,” said the presenter of the workshops, Father G. Dennis Gill, director of the Office […]
Concert hailed as ‘an act of worship’
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T It was called “The Word Made Flesh: A Concert of Sacred Music Celebrating the Year of the Priest,” and it lived up to every expectation and more. There they were on March 25 at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, two outstanding youth choirs, each with over […]
A hope more real than anything else
By Father Leonard Peterson My old seminary philosophy professor, Father Joe Ward, had a favorite expression all his own to describe the superlative. With a little smile and a snicker, he would tell us that this or that was “than which there is no whicher.” Like a lot of our colloquialisms, that one eludes grammatical […]