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Operation Santa Claus delivers 10,000 toys by Christmas
By Arlene EdmondsSpecial to The CS&T Shannon Griesser was Santa Claus on New Year’s Eve. In the North Pole tradition, she was distributing toys to needy children. Rather than coming down the chimney and sneaking cookies and milk, the 17-year-old hand delivered wrapped toys to dozens of youngsters. The smiling faces were of North Philadelphia […]
Archdiocesan schools partner with Please Touch Museum
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – It crosses everyone’s mind now and again. Wouldn’t it be fun to be a kid again, at least just for a little bit? A group of early childhood educators from the Office for Catholic Education and the parochial schools got to do just that on Dec. 11. […]
The world within the Philadelphia Church
Christians in the Archdiocese prayed for peace in Pakistan Jan. 3 following the assassination of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. In December, they would pray again after deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. Reflecting the ethnic spanersity of the Archdiocese, Honduran Catholics filled Visitation B.V.M. Church in Philadelphia to commemorate the feast of Our Lady of […]
A year of expansion
* A new daily Mass chapel was blessed at St. Martin of Tours Church, Philadelphia, in January. * The Archdiocese announced that it intends to build two new high schools. Pope John Paul II High School in Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, which is projected to be completed by 2010, and the new Lansdale Regional […]
2008 in review
CS&T Staff report A look back at any year of happenings in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia reveals remarkable events, but 2008 was exceptional. Heading the list of highlights was the Bicentennial of the Church in Philadelphia. Two hundred years have passed since the founding of the Diocese, and the Archdiocese hosted a number of bicentennial […]
St. Vincent de Paul council in desperate need of donations
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – Consider this an SOS. This past November, Philadelphia’s Archdiocesan Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul experienced a 40 percent drop in donations from the previous November, according to Carey Gibbons Roberts, executive director of the city’s oldest lay organization dedicated exclusively to serving people […]
The joy of serving the poor, the parish
By Nadia Maria SmithCS&T Staff Writer Anthony Willoughby, a recent Catholic convert and the Food Services manager at St. John’s Hospice in Philadelphia, says he loves his job because it gives him the opportunity to live out his Catholic faith every day. Willoughby came to St. John’s Hospice in 2002 from a background in corporate […]
West Catholic suffers heartbreaker in 2OT
By John KnebelsSpecial to The CS&T HERSHEY – All those thousands of yards, and it came down to a few inches. If West Catholic High School’s high-flying, thrill-a-minute football team struggles to accept its deflating 35-34, double-overtime loss to Wilmington in last Saturday afternoon’s AA state championship game at Hersheypark Stadium, perhaps the Burrs can […]
Archbishop Wood’s season ends in state final
By Joseph PawlikowskiSpecial to The CS&T Archbishop Wood High School’s football team manhandled opponents all year with its size and running game. Last Friday in the state final, Thomas Jefferson gave them a taste of their own medicine. Amidst freezing conditions at Hersheypark Stadium, Jefferson’s Jaguars won 34-7, making fewer mistakes than the Vikings, who […]
Local men’s group focuses on fighting pornography
By NADIA MARIA SMITHCS&T Staff Writer QUAKERTOWN – The average boy sees his first pornographic magazine or video when he is somewhere between 7 and 11 years old. Pornography has become a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States, affecting millions of people, starting with those boys. “Sadly the state that we are in – […]