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St. Gabe’s boys learn trades through YouthBuild
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T One might describe YouthBuild as a program that rehabilitates young lives through hands-on rehabilitation of houses. However, there’s a lot more to it at St. Gabriel’s Hall in Audubon, where for the past few months 31 young men have been traveling in teams to Pottstown to gut and rehabilitate […]
Annual charismatic conference offers new track for youth
By George GregorySpecial to The CS&T The 30th annual Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) Conference will take place on Saturday, April 17, at the Valley Forge Convention Center in King of Prussia. The event will begin at 8 a.m. with the celebration of the spanine Liturgy for Saturday in the Byzantine Ukrainian Catholic rite. Msgr. Myron […]
Unable to meet registration goals, St. Joseph, Stella Maris schools to close
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer St. Joseph School in Collingdale, Delaware County, and Stella Maris School in South Philadelphia will close in June due to declining enrollments and increasing operational costs, the Philadelphia Archdiocese announced late Friday afternoon, April 9. “It was our hope that through registration and fundraising efforts, Stella Maris and St. […]
Capital campaign runs as a 501(c)(3) charitable fund
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer Contributors to the archdiocesan capital and endowment campaign, “Heritage of Faith, Vision of Hope” can bank on the fact that all money is deposited into a separately incorporated 501(c)(3) charitable fund where oversight, transparency and accountability are assured through a board of directors and an annual audit by an […]
Capital campaign passes $150 million mark
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer The archdiocesan capital and endowment campaign, “Heritage of Faith, Vision of Hope,” recently reached another major milestone, raising in pledges and gifts more than $156 million, or 78 percent toward a $200 million goal. By April 13 Catholics across the Archdiocese had contributed $156,396,053 to the campaign. The Archdiocese […]
Unable to meet registration goals, St. Joseph, Stella Maris schools to close
Breaking News By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer St. Joseph School in Collingdale, Delaware County, and Stella Maris School in South Philadelphia will close in June due to declining enrollments and increasing operational costs, the Philadelphia Archdiocese announced late Friday afternoon, April 9. “It was our hope that through registration and fundraising efforts, Stella Maris […]
Her mission has been music
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Over 68 years as a church organist Mary Babin has gotten to see a lot of people in the pews. “I had the best seat in the house, and I met most people by the tops of their heads,” she said. Now, after a 38-year run at Sacred Heart […]
Catholic Athletes for Christ fosters faith in athletes
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T RADNOR – When two dozen young men and women assembled at Archbishop Carroll High School for meetings of Catholic Athletes for Christ (CAC) on March 3 and 17, they may not have realized they were pioneering an entirely new ministry for a group founded primarily to support the Catholic […]
Neumann-Goretti starts baseball season 4-0
John KnebelsSports Columnist After a team wins a championship, the good news for the collective runners-up is the conventional wisdom that maybe next year things will be different. In the case of Catholic League baseball, maybe not. The Neumann-Goretti High School team, which outlasted LaSalle 3-1 in last year’s eight-inning championship pitching duel, looks almost […]
Sharing lives and family
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Violane Gillyard and Sharon Jones are related neither by blood nor formal adoption but are as “family” as you can get. Gillyard has been caring for Jones for 23 years under Catholic Social Services and Life Sharing Through Family Living, a foster care program that places people with intellectual […]