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Keeping Down syndrome children at the forefront
By Nadia Maria SmithCS&T Staff Writer KIDS, which stands for Keep Children with Down syndrome, was the newest group to attend the 2009 March for Life in Washington, D.C., last week. Started by two mothers who each have a child with Down syndrome, KIDS is a national initiative to bring awareness to the high percentage […]
Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations a resource for Philadelphia Archdiocese
Special web contentBy Arlene EdmondsSpecial to the CS&T Philip Cunningham believes that there are many advantages to interreligious dialogue. As director of Saint Joseph University’s Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations and a professor of Catholic and Jewish Relations, he sees opening the channels of communications between the two faiths as all positive. Consequently, the institute periodically […]
Catholic-Jewish dialogue hosted at St. Joseph’s U.
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – Local Catholics and Jews met Feb. 3 for a panel discussion hosted by the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations at St. Joseph’s University in the wake of Jewish displeasure over the Jan. 21 lifting of the 1988 excommunication of four bishops of the Society of St. Pius X, […]
Coatesville parishes: Fighting fire with fire of faith
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer COATESVILLE – The sole fatality of the city of Coatesville’s spate of arsons over more than a year was one of St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish’s own: 83-year-old Irene Kempest, a native of Poland who worked in a Nazi forced labor camp in Germany before emigrating to Coatesville as a […]
Death of a seminarian
To see more photos of Deacon Crowe, click here. By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer WYNNEWOOD – Rev. Mr. Adam S. Crowe, 26, a transitional deacon at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary who was to be ordained a priest in May for the New York Diocese of Ogdensburg, died suddenly at the Seminary Tuesday, Jan. 27. […]
Local Catholic organizations help fire victims
COATESVILLE – In addition to the Catholic parishes in and around Coatesville, numerous agencies of the local Church are assisting arson victims. The Chester County Family Service Centers of archdiocesan Catholic Social Services (CSS) has volunteered interpretation services through its Spanish-speaking staff members. CSS has also donated new sheets and blankets to several relocating families […]
Sister touches lives through religious ed
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Rose Caritas, Director of Religious Education at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, Strafford, isn’t the sort of person who would go out of her way to seek honors. She, along with Linda Stewart of St. Ignatius of Antioch Parish, Yardley, received the Elizabeth […]
College’s sports and spirituality program grows
Sports ColumnistJohn Knebels Like dealing with a scorching hot potato, person after person refuses to grab the plaudits and instead tosses them toward someone else. Perhaps that is why Neumann College – soon to be a University, but that’s for another day – has continued to improve its decade-long Center for Sport, Spirituality and Character […]
Flyers Cup favorites hard to predict
By Mike IvcicSpecial to The CS&T With only a month remaining before the Flyers Cup resumes, it’s not out of the question for one to envision six or seven different schools taking the AAA title. Many observers of last year’s final between La Salle and Holy Ghost Prep have called the Explorers’ 4-1 win the […]
Retreat at Marian shrine helps after abortion
By Nadia Maria SmithCS&T Staff Writer A retreat for healing from post-abortive trauma will be held at Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine in Doylestown Feb. 20-22. Pauline Father Tadeusz Lizinczyk, the prior of the shrine, requested that a Rachel’s Vineyard retreat be offered there after he realized the need for post-abortion healing through the confession […]