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Faith-filled fun at St. Mary’s
Immediately after walking into the standing-room only gym at St. Mary’s in Schwenksville on Jan. 20, I knew this would be unlike any other CYO basketball game I’ve ever attended. The DJ, dancing, 50/50 raffles, foul shot challenges – oh and the ice cream eating contest – proved this wasn’t just a basketball game; this […]
La Salle takes title, moves on to states
By John KnebelsSpecial to The CS&T WYNDMOOR – Overconfidence has proven to be costly to many teams of every sport. What appears to be a certain victory somehow morphs into a heartbreaking loss. La Salle College High School’s wrestling team talked about that before taking on visiting North Catholic in the Catholic League championship last […]
Men, women discuss discernment of life in religious congregations
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T What are the qualities a religious congregation looks for in potential candidates to religious life? “Somebody with a deep joy, a family spirit, someone who enjoys relationships with others, and obviously someone who is in love with Jesus,” said Sister Michele Fisher, vocations director for the Sisters of the […]
Devotion to St. Padre Pio thrives at Holy Saviour Parish
By Nadia Maria SmithCS&T Staff Writer The great devotion to St. Pio of Pietrelcina at Holy Savior Parish in Norristown spans 38 years, making it the longest running Padre Pio prayer group in the United States, according to Dolores Cherosky, the group’s director. The group, which was founded by Vera Calandra and run under her […]
After 50 years, Sister Francis Joseph still promotes vocations
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA — Sister Francis Joseph rocks. Well, not literally. Her porch chair has straight legs, not rockers, but she rocks. A Religious of the Assumption, she will be turning 90 this spring, but that doesn’t mean she’s stopped promoting religious vocations, or for that matter trying to bring people […]
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. […]