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La Salle lacrosse team proves it’s best in state
By John KnebelsSpecial to The CS&T Those out there who didn’t think that La Salle College High School would eventually prove to have the best lacrosse team in the entire state, raise your hand. Kudos for telling the truth, but where exactly have you been hiding? As the regular season started giving way to the […]
St. Mary Magdalen, MMR win CYO track titles
By John KnebelsSpecial to The CS&T The flip-flop fit perfectly. Last year, St. Mary Magdalen School in Media won the boys’ Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) archdiocesan track and field championship while the girls placed third. Two weekends ago at Franklin Field, it proved to be just the opposite. “The girls have been competitive and getting […]
Seminary’s Religious Studies spanision grants graduate degrees in theology
WYNNEWOOD – The Religious Studies spanision of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary held its annual commencement May 20. Cardinal Justin Rigali presided at the ceremony, where 21 students received master’s degrees in theology. Graduates included Anne Barr, Drexel Hill; Anne Broussard, Swarthmore; Fernando Cartagena, Scaggsville, Md.; James Garvey, Doylestown; John Myers, Hatfield; Susan Naab Gallen, King […]
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Msgr. Timothy Senior named Auxiliary Bishop for Archdiocese of Philadelphia By CHRISTIE L. CHICOINECS&T STAFF WRITER PHILADELPHIA – Pope Benedict XVI has named Msgr. Timothy C. Senior, 49, currently the Archdiocese’s Vicar for Clergy, as an auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia. Cardinal Justin Rigali announced the appointment a 10 a.m. press conference Monday, June 8 at […]
PCL champ St. Hubert moves on in state play
By John KnebelsSpecial to The CS&T First-pitch strikes. Every coach preaches the importance of getting ahead of hitters, but too few have the ability to consistently master the art. In the case of St. Hubert junior Melissa Robinson, she not only throws first-pitch strikes, she seems to throw strikes on every single offering. “I always […]
New priest formed by a new life in Phila.
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Duc Nguyen, a 1988 graduate of Bishop Shanahan High School in Downingtown, was ordained priest after a May 30 ceremony at Kansas City, Missouri’s Immaculate Conception Cathedral. It’s been a long journey. It started in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam, continued in Malaysia, then in suburban Philadelphia […]
Riverso brothers help Neumann-Goretti win title
Sports ColumnistJohn Knebels In terms of personality, the Riverso brothers couldn’t be further apart. Michael is extremely laid back. He speaks methodically and answers questions with as few words as possible while getting his point across. His brother Dominic never met a practical joke in which he didn’t find humor. Ask him a serious question […]
Father Judge grad proves his mettle
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Turning pages in a textbook poses difficulty for Michael McDonnell, a graduate this year of Father Judge High School for Boys, who was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at age 6. But that has not deterred Michael, who lost his ability to walk at age 12, from bearing […]
St. Philip Neri Parish acquires first-class relic of patron saint
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PENNSBURG – May 26, the Feast of St. Philip Neri, is always special at St. Philip Neri Parish, Pennsburg, but this year it was especially so. On that evening Bishop Daniel E. Thomas officially blessed the parish’s new shrine to St. Philip, where a recently acquired first class relic […]
Cardinal Rigali ordains eight permanent deacons
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – The reading from Acts, chapter 6 at the May 30 Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul was most appropriate. “… So they chose Stephen, a man filled with faith and the Holy Spirit, also Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicholas of Antioch, […]