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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 […]
Schools adopt new core curriculum standards
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff WriterPHILADELPHIA – To propel 21st century children intellectually into the global world, the archdiocesan Office for Catholic Education is instituting the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a national curriculum program lauded as a rigorous and relevant launch pad of learning.The Archdiocese is preparing to implement the common core standards this […]
Archdiocese recognizes distinguished graduates
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&TGraduates of Catholic schools within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia make a difference. In keeping with a tradition begun in 1991, on Jan. 29 the Archdiocese presented Distinguished Graduate Awards to three inspaniduals and one group.Honored during the ceremony, which was held at the Crystal Tea Room in Philadelphia’s Wanamaker Building, […]
New bill supports school choice
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer HARRISBURG – A bill currently winding its way through the chambers of the Pennsylvania Senate is straightforward and resolute: school choice is the right choice for Catholics and non-Catholics of the Commonwealth.Senate Bill 1, the Opportunity Scholarship Act, was introduced into legislation Jan. 26 and subsequently referred to the […]
Healing War’s ‘Invisible wounds’
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Soldiers who return from war with post traumatic stress suffer hidden wounds that are comparable to those sustained by a bullet to the leg or arm. So said General Peter W. Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. Chiarelli (pronounced Corelli) is a practicing Catholic […]
New Pa. Gov. Corbett touts school choice
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer HARRISBURG – Six days after Philadelphia native Tom Corbett was sworn in to office as the 46th governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, he declared Jan. 24-29 Pennsylvania School Choice Week to complement National School Choice Week efforts and activities. “Every child in Pennsylvania deserves a challenging, motivating, effective […]
Scholarship remembers local 9-11 victim
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Johanna Sigmund so loved and lived life to the fullest that after the 25-year-old perished in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, her family established an annual scholarship in her name to benefit a student in financial need at St. Malachy School […]
Teens help themselves by guiding little ones
Graduation rate for Providence Center’s teen mentors is 100 percent By George GregorySpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – In 1993, changing demographics in the Fairhill and Kensington sections of North Philadelphia prompted the Archdiocese to close three local parishes: St. Edward the Confessor, St. Bonaventure and St. Henry. As crime and violence increased in the […]
After battle with anorexia, teen educates peers
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Kaitlyn Bowman, 17, a junior at the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur in Villanova, used to hide food. No, she wasn’t an overeater, just the opposite. Her eating disorder was anorexia – she would hide the food so her family thought she ate it when she really didn’t. […]
Abortion doc faces murder charges
By John GillespieSpecial to The CS&T For Catholics and many others late-term abortions are a blatant assault on nature and human reason, the violent destruction of a child yet unborn but capable of living outside the womb. The Catholic Church teaches all abortions are wrong, but late-term or partial birth abortion seems especially egregious, the […]