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Saints bring state hoops title to South Philly
John KnebelsSports Columnist A passing comment wasn’t meant for dissecting. More than anything else, it was just food for thought. Then Carl Arrigale starting thinking about it. “You know,” he said, “when you put it that way.” Neumann-Goretti edged Chartiers Valley 65-63 in the PIAA Class AAA state championship March 26 at Penn State University’s […]
Overnight youth retreat a ‘powerful experience’
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T LIMERICK – Father Paul Brandt nailed it in his Saturday morning homily. The 8 a.m. Mass March 27 at Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Limerick, which ended the overnight youth retreat, was a grand finale and had all of the elements of the spiritual journey of Lent. It […]
Sister recounts forgiveness in Rwanda
By George GregorySpecial to The CS&T NEWTOWN SQUARE – One of the greatest tragedies in human history was revisited during a moving and heart-wrenching presentation held at St. Anastasia School in Newtown Square March 16. There was hardly a dry eye in the room as Sister of St. Joseph Catherine Nerny recounted her 2006 visit […]
Workshops on new missal scheduled for April
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer In anticipation of the revised English translation of the Roman Missal, the archdiocesan Office for Worship is conducting regional informational assemblies for the lay faithful April 15, 20 and 29. “Everyone is encouraged to attend,” said the presenter of the workshops, Father G. Dennis Gill, director of the Office […]
Concert hailed as ‘an act of worship’
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T It was called “The Word Made Flesh: A Concert of Sacred Music Celebrating the Year of the Priest,” and it lived up to every expectation and more. There they were on March 25 at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, two outstanding youth choirs, each with over […]
A hope more real than anything else
By Father Leonard Peterson My old seminary philosophy professor, Father Joe Ward, had a favorite expression all his own to describe the superlative. With a little smile and a snicker, he would tell us that this or that was “than which there is no whicher.” Like a lot of our colloquialisms, that one eludes grammatical […]
Looking ahead to Holy Week
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer Cardinal Justin Rigali is asking Catholics across the Archdiocese to accompany him as he leads a candlelight Way of the Cross devotion at 7:30 p.m. Good Friday, April 2, on the grounds of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood. “The devotion is a fitting way to reflect on the […]
St. Anselm program trains lay leaders
By Jim GaugerSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – At St. Anselm Parish in Northeast Philadelphia, the goal to develop lay leadership emerged from its 2009 pastoral plan. Father Tom Dunleavy, St. Anselm’s pastor, is working with the archdiocesan Office for Formation of the Laity to do just that. “One of the goals of the 2009 […]