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Dominican sister mugged, released from hospital
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T UPPER DARBY – No arrests have been made in the Feb. 2 mugging and robbery of an elderly nun outside her convent near St. Alice Church, Upper Darby, as The Catholic Standard & Times went to press. At about 3 p.m. on that day, Sister Margaret, 82, a Dominican […]
Quakertown group takes on local strip club
By Nadia Maria SmithCS&T Staff Writer The King’s Men and their supporters are rejoicing at the news that Coyotes Show Club in Quakertown is closing. The King’s Men, an anti-pornography Christian men’s outreach group based in the same town, has been routinely protesting the establishment since the adult entertainment business set up shop more than […]
Another Phila. police officer killed in the line of duty
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – Police Officer John Pawlowski, 25, killed in the line of duty Feb. 13, was memorialized at his home parish, St. Anselm on Dunks Ferry Road, on the evening of Feb. 16. His funeral Mass, celebrated by Cardinal Rigali, is scheduled to be held at the Cathedral Basilica […]
Parishes exceed campaign goals
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer From Southwest Philadelphia to Southampton, “Heritage of Faith – Vision of Hope” is strengthening bonds between pastors and parishioners for the benefit of future Catholics. St. Barnabas Parish in Southwest Philadelphia, one of 12 pilot parishes that conducted the campaign last September through December, has exceeded its pledge goal […]
Cardinal unveils historic effort
Visit Campaign web site $200 million endeavor aids charitable, educational and pastoral needsBy Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – The Church of Philadelphia is conducting a capital and endowment campaign with a $200 million goal to support the charitable, educational and pastoral needs of the Archdiocese as it begins its third century as a […]
Phila. Catholic medical groups to sponsor chastity conference
By NADIA MARIA SMITHCS&T Staff Writer Do abstinence programs really work? That’s the topic that the Philadelphia Natural Family Planning Network, St. Mary’s Medical Center and the Philadelphia Catholic Medical Association’s sixth annual conference will tackle on Saturday, March 7, at Our Lady of Good Counsel’s Trinity Parish Center in South Hampton. The conference organizers […]
St. Christopher Parish hosts outreach training session
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – Pastoral teams from 21 parishes in Northeast Philadelphia, Bucks County and Montgomery County met Feb. 4 at St. Christopher Parish hall with representatives of the archdiocesan Office for the Formation of the Laity to learn more about the “Make Every Person Count” program. It calls for teams […]
BLOCS making a difference in urban education
By Arlene EdmondsSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – Thirteen-year-old Kellie Holland of West Philadelphia is proud to be a Catholic student. The eighth grader at St. Ignatius of Loyola School in Wesr Philadelphia is an animated tour guide as she shows off her crafts hanging in Sister Carole Pollock’s contemporary art classroom or points to […]
Couple shares ways to strengthen marriage
By NADIA MARIA SMITHCS&T Staff Writer Fourteen years and three daughters into their marriage, Michael and Lisann Castagno, members of Visitation B.V.M. Parish in Trooper, are very much in love. And they help prepare prospective couples to find the same sustaining love and intimacy. The Castagnos have been archdiocesan Natural Family Planning instructors for the […]
Bucks Co. police officer remembered at Mass
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – For the sixth time in the past year-and-a-half, on Feb. 5 Philadelphia’s Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul was packed with rank upon rank of blue-clad law officers and other mourners for the funeral of a police officer who died in the line of duty. In this […]