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New season serves Merion Mercy challenges
Golden Bears still optimistic after ending two-year unbeaten streak John KnebelsSpecial to The CS&T When a team defends a state championship, it has a proverbial target on its back. When it must defend consecutive state titles, the invisible image becomes twice as cumbersome. So whether they like it or not, the members of Merion Mercy […]
At Ryan, teachers and students learn together
By LOU BALDWINSPECIAL TO THE CS&T PHILADELPHIA – It’s not often you see high school students and teachers learning side-by-side in a classroom, but that’s what happened during Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Alice Hess’s Statistics Summer Institute held at Archbishop Ryan High School Aug. 31-Sept. 4. The students were 15 honors pre-calculus students who […]
Catechetical Sunday to be celebrated Sept. 20
By CHRISTIE L. CHICOINECS&T STAFF WRITER PHILADELPHIA – Catechists across the Archdiocese will be acknowledged in churches across the Archdiocese on Catechetical Sunday, Sept. 20. This year’s theme is “Catechesis and the Proclamation of the Word.” “It’s a recognition that, at its roots, catechesis is proclaiming Jesus – who is the Word – to the […]
Open doors at Depaul House in Germantown
By LOU BALDWINSPECIAL TO THE CS&T GERMANTOWN – St. Vincent de Paul must be beaming. Depaul House, located in the former convent of Germantown’s Immaculate Conception Parish, is up and running as transitional housing for 35 formerly homeless men. It opened April 3 and was blessed and dedicated by Cardinal Justin Rigali on May 25. […]
Little Sisters of the Poor mark milestone
By CHRISTIE L. CHICOINECS&T STAFF WRITERPHILADELPHIA – It’s a happy time at Holy Family Home in Southwest Philadelphia. In August, the residence for the elderly poor, operated by the Little Sisters of the Poor, celebrated the 140th anniversary of the order’s arrival in Philadelphia. To commemorate the anniversary of the community’s establishment in Philadelphia, Auxiliary […]
‘I loved the life from the time I entered’
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T When Sister Deborah Krist, who just celebrated her 25th anniversary as a Sister of St. Francis of Philadelphia, was an infant she was sickly because of an RH blood factor. At her baptism, her dad placed her on the altar and dedicated her to God. “He still takes partial […]
Cathedral ambassadors cross state lines
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T It’s an interstate love affair. Two of the most committed parishioners at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul live in New Jersey. Nick and Louise Pascale travel in from Cinnaminson, and it’s not just for Sunday Mass. “It’s not that far,” Louise said. “We come over the […]
Catholic League football: 2009 preview
Sports ColumnistJohn Knebels When it comes to previewing an upcoming season, conjecture overtakes precision. Although last year’s win-loss records and statistics of returning players are often viewed as a barometer of what to expect in the near future, coaches and players still choose to employ the much-used term “anything can happen” when asked to publicly […]
An extraordinary honor
Four parishes to host training sessions for extraordinary ministers of holy CommunionBy Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Properly speaking, lay people who assist with the distribution of the Eucharist are not “Eucharistic ministers,” they are “extraordinary ministers of holy Communion,” as opposed to the ordinary ministers – bishops, priests, deacons and acolytes. They are commissioned […]