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EITC grants earmarked for five Bucks Co. Catholic schools
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T BENSALEM – Thanks to the Pennsylvania EITC (Educational Improvement Tax Credit), selected school students from five Lower Bucks County parishes who meet the income criteria will receive a total of $217,000 in tuition grants next year, it was announced at a ceremony held at the Bensalem Township Building on […]
Pastors, volunteers learn about aid available from CSS
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T SPRINGFIELD – Needs assessment and referral services. Counseling services. Pregnancy and parenting services. Elder care services. Budgeting classes. Supportive services for the homeless. Food cupboard referrals. A baby cupboard. Youth mentoring. These services and more can be accessed either in-house or through referrals at the various Catholic Social Service […]
St. Bede renovations aim for a masterpiece
By NADIA MARIA SMITHCS&T Staff Writer HOLLAND – St. Bede the Venerable Parish in Holland, Bucks County, has bold plans to renovate its existing church into a classical Catholic masterpiece with the help of renowned architect Duncan Stroik. The plan to “convert a simple A-frame church into an enduring building of beauty to suitably give […]
Local couple says Retrouvaille helped save their marriage
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer NEWTOWN – A decade ago, Shawn and Kim Doyle were discussing spanorce when Kim read an advertisement in their church bulletin for Retrouvaille, a Catholic program dedicated to helping couples overcome serious marital difficulties. They attended a Retrouvaille weekend in Minnesota, where they lived at the time. The Doyles, […]
Superior General of Marist Sisters is Phila. native
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T SAN BERNARDINO – Sister Georgeanne Marie Donovan, who was elected to a seven-year term as Superior General of the Marist Missionary Sisters in September, always knew she wanted to enter religious life. The idea was there when she was growing up in Holy Family Parish in Manayunk, the third […]
St. Hubert girls earn college credit without leaving school
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T The future of education is here and now in Philadelphia at St. Hubert High School, and it was celebrated by a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Nov. 6. The ceremony marked the inauguration of interactive distance learning through an innovative video conference center which has been quietly in operation since the […]
Miraculous Medal Shrine novena starts Nov. 17
By Nadia Maria SmithCS&T Staff Writer More than 10,000 people are expected to attend the Miraculous Medal Shrine for the annual novena service leading up to the Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal on Nov. 26. For nine days, Nov. 17 through Nov. 25, the shrine will have six to nine novena services […]
A priest first, football announcer makes the call
Sports ColumnistJohn Knebels Sacramental moments occur when we least expect them. In preparing to write a story about Father Matt Guckin, an administrator at Bishop Shanahan High School who doubles as the school’s public address announcer during home football games, there was something familiar about his name and picture on Shanahan’s web site. After about […]
Sister devoted 22 years to religious dialogue
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer After serving for 22 years as the assistant director of the archdiocesan Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, Sister Josephine Kase, I.H.M., is now serving the Church in upstate Pennsylvania at the I.H.M. House of Prayer in Nesquehoning, Diocese of Allentown. “I am grateful to the Archdiocese for the […]
A chat with the new Chair of Moral Theology
By CHRISTIE L. CHICOINECS&T STAFF WRITER Redemptorist Father Dennis J. Billy is the new Cardinal Krol Chair of Moral Theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood. A native of New York, Father Billy, 55, was ordained a priest in 1980. For more than 20 years, he was professor of the history of moral theology […]