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Hospice nurse helps patients find peace before death
By Colleen Boyle SharpSpecial to the CS&T PHILADELPHIA – For Sue Kriger nursing is not just a career, it’s a calling. A registered nurse for 34 years, Kriger began her vocation in health care working in the oncology unit for what was then Frankford Hospital, Torresdale Campus, in Northeast Philadelphia. Now a nurse for Holy […]
Burrs snare fifth consecutive Class AA title
By John KnebelsSports ColumnistBefore the game, players said they took turns challenging each other to play a near-perfect game.Mission accomplished.On a cold Saturday evening Nov. 6 at Plymouth-Whtemarsh High School, West Catholic’s football team scored a convincing 47-7 victory over Bishop McDevitt in the Catholic League spanision AA championship. In winning their fifth consecutive spanision […]
Archbishop Wood continues undefeated season
Vikings defeat Cardinal O’Hara 24-7 in the Catholic League AAA championship By John KnebelsSports Columnist It seems that no matter what is needed, Archbishop Wood’s football team finds a way to supply it. Two games fully illustrate this point. During a regular-season slugfest with Class AAA foe Cardinal O’Hara, the Vikings’ defense was victimized for […]
Burrs snare fifth consecutive Class AA title
By John KnebelsSports Columnist Before the game, players said they took turns challenging each other to play a near-perfect game. Mission accomplished. On a cold Saturday evening Nov. 6 at Plymouth-Whtemarsh High School, West Catholic’s football team scored a convincing 47-7 victory over Bishop McDevitt in the Catholic League spanision AA championship. In winning their […]
La Salle explores route to defend state title
John KnebelsSports Columnist Roman Catholic High School has a very good football team. La Salle College High School has an even better one. So, after the Explorers defeated the Cahillites 35-16 in the Catholic League spanision AAAA championship Nov. 12 at Northeast High School, the post-game analysis was less an indictment against Roman and more […]
Local man mourns brother killed in Iraq cathedral massacre
Web exclusiveBy Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T NEWTOWN SQUARE – No one at St. Sharbel Maronite Church’s Nov. 7 memorial Mass for the victims of the Oct. 31 massacre at Baghdad’s Syriac Catholic Cathedral, Our Lady of Deliverance, had greater reason to mourn than Sabah Kakos. The church in Newtown Square was filled with Christians […]
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is holding its fall meeting Monday to Thursday.
Watch the proceedings live from Baltimore.
Mount St. Joseph Academy presents ‘Hairspray’
FLOURTOWN – Mount St. Joseph Academy’s fall production of “Hairspray” featured senior Mary Beth Gries as Tracy Turnblad. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Turnblad earns a spot on a local TV dance show and uses her new role to bring integration to the segregated city. The show opened Nov. 5 in the school’s Fournier Auditorium and […]
Bishop Shanahan presents ‘A Christmas Carol’
DOWNINGTOWN – Christmas has come early at Bishop Shanahan High School, ushered in by the fall musical, “A Christmas Carol.” Based on Charles Dickens’ timeless classic, this year’s production brings together 140 cast members featuring Timothy Lambert as Scrooge, with well over 100 crew members. Also part of the Shanahan musical are 10 eighth grade […]
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Parish to hold bone marrow drive
LIMERICK – Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Limerick, Montgomery County, is holding a bone marrow drive from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, to help find a match for Justin, a 1-year-old parishioner and student in Blessed Teresa of Calcutta’s child care program. Justin was recently diagnosed with a rare form of […]