By Katharine Gilbert The Irish Edition is celebrating the collaboration of two of our outstanding writers Sabina Clarke and Thom Nickels who have recently presented the play Rendezvous in Bangkok…Who Killed Thomas Merton? At the Commodore John Barry Arts &… Continue Reading
By Katharine Gilbert The casting of Steve Gulick as the Franciscan Provincial in the staged reading of Rendezvous in Bangkok…Who Killed Thomas Merton? written by Sabina Clarke and Thom Nickels was brilliant. Gulick has a natural sense of historic figures… Continue Reading
Dylan Thomas Keenan, 43, died on September 26, 2021. Beloved son of Thomas W. and Jane M. (nee Mulvenna) Keenan. Dylan is survived by his wife Shannon (nee Wilson) and his children Brandon Collins and Ashlynn Loretta Keenan. Also survived… Continue Reading
By Denise Foley If you’ve ever attended a charity party, bought a cake from a home-school association, or, say, perused table after table of raffle prizes at a St. Patrick’s Day Parade fundraiser somewhere in the Delaware Valley, you can… Continue Reading
By Tim McCloskey Delco middleweight fights Saturday, July 31, at the Showboat Hotel and Casino. Local boxer Brendan O’Callaghan is set to make his pro boxing debut on the famed boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. O’Callaghan, of Briarcliff, did… Continue Reading
By Ciarán QuinnSinn Féin North America RepresentativeOffice of Mary Lou McDonaldSinn Féin Party President Congratulations to the Irish Edition for making it to 40! It is a credit to Publisher Anthony Byrne, Editor Jane Duffin and its contributors and loyal… Continue Reading
(Photo above: The tunnel along Kelly Drive.) By Marita Krivda Poxon Ryan Heenan, current President of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick describes himself as “the youngest guy in the room” when he speaks about how he often feels when… Continue Reading
By Thom Nickels Sister Kathleen Coll, SSJ, has been in religious life for several decades. She has been an inner city teaching sister in Baltimore and Philadelphia and has worked as the Social Justice Coordinator for the Sisters of Saint… Continue Reading
By Marita Krivda Poxon The Corson homestead located at the corner of Butler and Germantown Pikes in the heart of the Plymouth Meeting National Historic District no longer faces the prospect of being subdivided by K. Hovnanian to build 67… Continue Reading
By Thom Nickels It’s not that long a ride from New Jersey’s PATCO line to Camden’s Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Camden, the forgotten city, the city of Walt Whitman, Campbell’s Soup and RCA Victor, a city that by all accounts… Continue Reading