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From Irish to Latino, Philly force is changing

Conception Action Pack. By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – There was a time when virtually all Philadelphia police officers were Catholic. For example, during the planning stages of the National Sesquicentennial held in Philadelphia in 1926, the Archdiocese asked that all Catholic police be granted permission to participate in a huge field Mass […]

For Catholic police officers, faith is integral to work

By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – The Catholic presence at the Philadelphia Police Department is apparent. In recent months, this presence has been visible in an especially poignant way. All seven Philadelphia police officers to die in the line of duty since May 2006 were Catholic. So is Commissioner Charles Ramsey, who has […]

Consul General of Israel: ‘I think Pope Benedict is a great friend of the Jewish people’

A Q-and-A with Philadelphia’s Daniel Kutner Special web contentBy Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – Daniel Kutner, based in Philadelphia, is consul general of Israel for the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States. He is the official representative of his country in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Kentucky, West Virginia and Southern New Jersey. Born in […]

Lecture on Eastern Catholics at Ivy Hall

By Nadia Maria SmithCS&T Staff Writer Not many Roman Catholics know much about the 21 Eastern Catholic ritual churches the late Pope John Paul II called the second lung of the Church. Some may not know that although Eastern Catholics have different liturgical and cultural traditions, they are no less Catholic than members of the […]

Lenten practices differ for Byzantine Catholics

By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T All Churches in full communion with the Holy See observe Lent, but not all observe it in exactly the same way as do Roman Catholics. For example, did you know that in the Byzantine Ukrainian Ritual Church they often bless not only palm on Palm Sunday but also pussy […]

Saint’s feast day marked in Bensalem

By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T BENSALEM – For the first time since St. Katharine Drexel’s canonization in 2000, Mass was celebrated on her March 3 feast day in the chapel of St. Elizabeth Convent, the motherhouse of her Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, rather than the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. St. […]

Teen girls learn about vocations

By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – At a town hall meeting that addressed vocations, Cardinal Justin Rigali reiterated to young women from archdiocesan high schools the importance of regular Mass attendance. “Whatever your vocation is, Mass on Sunday gives you strength,” the Cardinal told the students at the March 5 assembly at Mount […]

St. Bernard Parish School to close in June

By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – Facing declining enrollment, St. Bernard Parish School in Northeast Philadelphia will close this June. The announcement was made March 5. Children from the parish will be invited to attend either St. Dominic School or St. Matthew School, which are the two closest territorial parish schools in that […]

Annual Migration Mass: Faith without boundaries

By Arlene EdmondsSpecial to the CS&T PHILADELPHIA – Chief Buffy Red Feather Brown said that Philadelphia Catholics are “a multicultural community” as evidenced by the spanersity of ethnic attire in the opening procession of the 12th Annual National Migration Week Mass held at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul Sunday March 8. Father […]

1,200 attend men’s spirituality day

By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T SPRINGFIELD – The 1,200 programs printed for the archdiocesan men’s spirituality conference, “Strengthen One Another,” held at Cardinal O’Hara High School on Saturday, March 7, were gone by noon. Not bad, considering that just a few weeks earlier there were only a couple hundred registrations and the organizers were […]