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Parishioners permitted to return last year’s palms for burning
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – In many parishes across the Archdiocese, parishioners are invited to return their blessed palm branches received at Mass last Palm Sunday to their church for the burning of palm prior to Ash Wednesday, March 9, the first day of Lent. That means Catholics who so choose have […]
Passion for robotics at Lansdale Catholic
By Jim GaugerSpecial to the CS&T LANSDALE – Learning about science is one of the most popular pursuits among students at Lansdale Catholic High School in Montgomery County. Science holds a special place at the school. It’s probably due to the FIRST Robotics Competition that is in its 14th year. Since 1997, Lansdale Catholic has […]
Eye on Egypt
Villa Maria Academy grad Lauren Bohn captures the faces, emotions behind Egyptian revolution By George GregorySpecial to The CS&T A day before the Jan. 25 popular uprising calling for the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Lauren Bohn and her friends posted messages back and forth on the social networking web site Twitter.com about the […]
Archdiocese sets aside burial site for abortion victims
By John T. GillespieSpecial to the CS&T For the defenseless victims of Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s West Philadelphia abortion clinic, there may yet be dignity in death. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has set aside a potential grave site in the recently opened infant section of All Souls Cemetery in West Brandywine and is now accepting contributions […]
Villa Maria grad, reporting in Egypt, caught in country’s political turmoil
MALVERN – The Villa Maria Academy community is praying for Lauren E. Bohn, a 2005 graduate of the academy. Bohn is currently a multi-platform freelance journalist and a Fulbright fellowship scholar in Egypt. She is spending 15 months in the country at the American University focusing on gender and migration studies, as well as reporting. […]
Faith meets expertise
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Mary Flannery, who was recently appointed director of marketing and public relations at Malvern Retreat House, the nation’s largest Catholic retreat center, had quite a different career plan when she entered college. After childhood in Blue Bell and education at Gwynedd-Mercy Academy, she entered Georgetown University, where she graduated […]
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 […]