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Sister recounts forgiveness in Rwanda
By George GregorySpecial to The CS&T NEWTOWN SQUARE – One of the greatest tragedies in human history was revisited during a moving and heart-wrenching presentation held at St. Anastasia School in Newtown Square March 16. There was hardly a dry eye in the room as Sister of St. Joseph Catherine Nerny recounted her 2006 visit […]
Workshops on new missal scheduled for April
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer In anticipation of the revised English translation of the Roman Missal, the archdiocesan Office for Worship is conducting regional informational assemblies for the lay faithful April 15, 20 and 29. “Everyone is encouraged to attend,” said the presenter of the workshops, Father G. Dennis Gill, director of the Office […]
Concert hailed as ‘an act of worship’
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T It was called “The Word Made Flesh: A Concert of Sacred Music Celebrating the Year of the Priest,” and it lived up to every expectation and more. There they were on March 25 at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, two outstanding youth choirs, each with over […]
A hope more real than anything else
By Father Leonard Peterson My old seminary philosophy professor, Father Joe Ward, had a favorite expression all his own to describe the superlative. With a little smile and a snicker, he would tell us that this or that was “than which there is no whicher.” Like a lot of our colloquialisms, that one eludes grammatical […]
Looking ahead to Holy Week
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer Cardinal Justin Rigali is asking Catholics across the Archdiocese to accompany him as he leads a candlelight Way of the Cross devotion at 7:30 p.m. Good Friday, April 2, on the grounds of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood. “The devotion is a fitting way to reflect on the […]
St. Anselm program trains lay leaders
By Jim GaugerSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – At St. Anselm Parish in Northeast Philadelphia, the goal to develop lay leadership emerged from its 2009 pastoral plan. Father Tom Dunleavy, St. Anselm’s pastor, is working with the archdiocesan Office for Formation of the Laity to do just that. “One of the goals of the 2009 […]
Parish copes with 3 teen deaths
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer NORWOOD – Three teenagers were buried within three weeks this month from St. Gabriel Parish in Norwood, Delaware County. According to police, the deaths of two of the victims were ruled suicides, while the cause of the death of the third student had not been determined. Father Samuel A. […]
In the spirit of St. Joseph
On saint’s feast day, gifts of prayer, priestly service By Colleen Boyle SharpSpecial to the CS&T PHILADELPHIA – Holy Family Home in Southwest Philadelphia revisited an old tradition in honor of St. Joseph’s feast day this year. Auxiliary Bishop Joseph P. McFadden and seven archdiocesan priests visited the nursing home run by the Little Sisters […]