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City housing project breaks ground at St. John the Evangelist
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – The planned housing for 71 previously homeless men and women at Center City’s St. John the Evangelist Parish got off to a good start. Groundbreaking on July 8 featured an invocation by the Cardinal and an ovation by a rock star. “It’s all about human beings, through […]
Relics blessed in advance of tour
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – Four relics and four icons will travel the four corners of the Archdiocese in the coming year. The icons and relics are of St. John Baptist Mary Vianney, the Curé of Ars, patron saint of priests, and it is all part of the archdiocesan observance of the […]
Farewell, Bishop Cistone
‘I will always give thanks … for you’By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Seven days before his installation as the sixth bishop of the Michigan Diocese of Saginaw, Bishop Joseph R. Cistone received a prayerful farewell from the faithful of the Philadelphia Archdiocese, where he has served as an auxiliary bishop for the […]
Proud parents of a Bishop
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T Daniel and Josephine Cistone were not the least bit surprised when their middle son, Joseph, left home at age 18 to enter St. Charles Seminary in Wynnewood to study for the priesthood. He hadn’t applied to any colleges while in his senior year at Father Judge, and he’d been […]
Neumann U. chaplains move athletes to play well, keep faith
By Chaz MuthCatholic News Service ASTON (CNS) – Rachael Sokolovish is a member of Neumann University’s conference-champion volleyball team, and the 22-year-old Catholic from Media believes much of the squad’s success belongs to the persistent prayers of Franciscan Sister Marie Therese Carr, the chaplain assigned to her lineup. “I’ll be getting ready to go out […]
Athletic department at Neumann-Goretti honored
SI.com says N-G has best program in PennsylvaniaBy John KnebelsSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – When John Murawski received a text message from a friend, he had no idea what it was about. “The message said, ‘Did you see it?'” said Murawski. “I was thinking to myself, ‘Did I see what?'” It turns out Murawski’s […]
Cardinal celebrates Mass at Courage conference
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T VILLANOVA – The 21st annual Courage Conference got off to an excellent start at Villanova University on July 9 with a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Justin Rigali. “Please accept my deepest admiration and appreciation for your presence here today,” the Cardinal told the delegates at St. Thomas of Villanova […]
Church challenged by new digital technologies
By Catholic News Service PHILADELPHIA – The Church’s great communications challenge today is to “keep the interest of people who have so many places to turn,” Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., told the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management. Bishop Kicanas, vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, addressed the organization’s […]
Climate bill must help poor adapt, letter says
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – A U.S. bishop and the head of Catholic Relief Services called on Congress to ensure “the poorest people and countries on earth” have adequate financial assistance to help them adapt to the effects of climate change. Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., chairman of the bishops’ Committee on […]
Social services get Catholic development grants
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the U.S. Catholic bishops’ domestic social justice, anti-poverty program, recently announced its 2009-2010 grant recipients in the Philadelphia Archdiocese. Three national grants and four local grants totaling $130,000 have been awarded to seven organizations. CCHD addresses the root causes of poverty in […]