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Voting with faith and reason
Growing spanide seen in political worldviews of Catholic subgroups Click here to read the Candidates QuestionnaireBy Nancy Frazier O’BrienCatholic News Service WASHINGTON – As in other recent election years, Catholic voting behavior is likely to resemble the voting of the population at large, but there is a growing spanide in the political worldviews of various […]
The littlest superhero
Parish holds up courageous boy and his family with loveBy Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff WriterBLUE BELL – Call him the little engine that could.Five-year-old John Shapiro, a kindergartener at St. Helena School in Blue Bell, Montgomery County, wants to be a firefighter when he grows up.But the blond-haired boy with the dancing blue eyes whose […]
All Saints Day, Nov. 1; All Souls Day, Nov. 2
The Solemnity of All Saints is Monday, Nov. 1. Because All Saints Day falls on a Monday, the obligation to attend Mass that day is suppressed. However, Masses commemorating All Saints Day will be celebrated across the Archdiocese. All Souls Day, the commemoration of the faithful departed, is Tuesday, Nov. 2. Although All Souls Day […]
U.S. swimmer Francis Crippen, 26, a Catholic from Conshohocken dies during competition east of Dubai
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer Francis E. Crippen, a member of the U.S. National Swim Team and a 1998 alumnus of Conshohocken Catholic Elementary School, died Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 during an international swimming competition east of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. He was 26 years old and a member of St. Matthew […]
Assumption sister marks 102nd year with joy and devotion
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T LANSDALE – Constancia Alingasa, in religion Assumption Sister Marie Clemencia, who now lives in retirement at St. Stanislaus Convent in Lansdale, was baptized and confirmed when she was three days old, something very unusual for a Roman Catholic. It was a different time and a different place; the Philippines […]
Principal security
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – During the day, Peter Balzano keeps students in line as the assistant principal for student services at Lansdale Catholic High School in Lansdale, Montgomery County. After the school bell – up until Oct. 23 – Balzano kept order at Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia as a […]
Wood girls top off perfect season with PCL title
Cross country By John KnebelsSports Columnist As she emerged from the woods with no one remotely close to her, Katie Rodden realized that she was less than one mile away from taking first place in the Philadelphia Catholic League cross country championship last Saturday, Oct. 23, at Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park. While spectators enthusiastically […]
Rome diocese opens sainthood cause of Vietnamese cardinal
Web only By Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) – The Diocese of Rome formally opened the sainthood process for Vietnamese Cardinal Francois Nguyen Van Thuan, who spent 13 years in prison in communist Vietnam — nine of them in solitary confinement. {{more}} After he was freed by authorities in 1988, Pope John Paul II named […]
Rosary prayers petition for peace
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PAOLI – October 13, 1917. That was the date of the reported final visitation of our Lady to three small children in Fatima, Portugal. The message the children relayed to the world was a call to prayer, in particular the rosary, in reparation for sin as a means of […]
Intercessors of the Lamb suppressed in Neb.
By Catholic News Service OMAHA, Neb. – Saying that the step was necessary to “guard the liturgical and sacramental life of the Church,” Archbishop George J. Lucas of Omaha has suppressed a public association of hermits in his archdiocese and dismissed its 48 vowed members from religious life. “From this point forward, the Intercessors of […]