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A priest first, football announcer makes the call
Sports ColumnistJohn Knebels Sacramental moments occur when we least expect them. In preparing to write a story about Father Matt Guckin, an administrator at Bishop Shanahan High School who doubles as the school’s public address announcer during home football games, there was something familiar about his name and picture on Shanahan’s web site. After about […]
Football playoffs roundup: West makes a run for state title
By Joseph PawlikowskiSpecial to The CS&T Last weekend, four Catholic League games produced two new champions and set new city, school and inspanidual records. The Catholic League Class AAAA held its semifinals Saturday, Nov. 8, featuring teams from the former Catholic League red spanision. La Salle College High School defeated its bitter rival, St. Joseph’s […]
Local couple says Retrouvaille helped save their marriage
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer NEWTOWN – A decade ago, Shawn and Kim Doyle were discussing spanorce when Kim read an advertisement in their church bulletin for Retrouvaille, a Catholic program dedicated to helping couples overcome serious marital difficulties. They attended a Retrouvaille weekend in Minnesota, where they lived at the time. The Doyles, […]
Superior General of Marist Sisters is Phila. native
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T SAN BERNARDINO – Sister Georgeanne Marie Donovan, who was elected to a seven-year term as Superior General of the Marist Missionary Sisters in September, always knew she wanted to enter religious life. The idea was there when she was growing up in Holy Family Parish in Manayunk, the third […]
St. Hubert girls earn college credit without leaving school
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T The future of education is here and now in Philadelphia at St. Hubert High School, and it was celebrated by a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Nov. 6. The ceremony marked the inauguration of interactive distance learning through an innovative video conference center which has been quietly in operation since the […]
Miraculous Medal Shrine novena starts Nov. 17
By Nadia Maria SmithCS&T Staff Writer More than 10,000 people are expected to attend the Miraculous Medal Shrine for the annual novena service leading up to the Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal on Nov. 26. For nine days, Nov. 17 through Nov. 25, the shrine will have six to nine novena services […]
A chat with the new Chair of Moral Theology
By CHRISTIE L. CHICOINECS&T STAFF WRITER Redemptorist Father Dennis J. Billy is the new Cardinal Krol Chair of Moral Theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood. A native of New York, Father Billy, 55, was ordained a priest in 1980. For more than 20 years, he was professor of the history of moral theology […]
The young and the gifted
Four African-American students of Catholic schools honored for academic achievementsBy Arlene EdmondsSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA — The first Msgr. John Mitchell Memorial Scholarship Fund banquet was a success. Held at the Hilton Hotel Nov. 2 and featuring keynote speaker Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta, four Mitchell Scholars received $2,000 scholarships toward their high school […]
Charities Appeal up by 10% for 2008
By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T PHILADELPHIA – The 2008 archdiocesan Catholic Charities Appeal, held last spring, raised $9.2 million. It was more than 10 percent higher than the previous year’s appeal, which raised $8.3 million, according to figures released by the Archdiocesan Office for Development. “We were very pleased with the increase and sincerely […]
Happily seeing red
By Christie L. ChicoineCS&T Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Father Sean P. Bransfield is arguably one of the most ardent Phillies fans among the Philadelphia Archdiocese’s priests. The day after his beloved baseball team captured the World Series crown, he was beaming. “It was one of the happiest nights of my life,” he said of the […]