(Photo above: Left to right: Kristen Sileo, Allison Wetterauw, Colleen Fitzpatrick, and Eileen McAlonan from the Catholic University of America accept the second place award for the Four Hand Reel from George Pinchock, Villanova’s assistant director of the Office of… Continue Reading
By Sabina Clarke The disappearance of West Chester University senior Shane Montgomery, a member of St. John the Baptist Church in Manayunk, has shaken and confounded the FBI, the Fifth District Police, the Northwest Detectives, the Police Marine Unit, the… Continue Reading
By Barbara Nolan For a heretic, Father Anthony Flannery is remarkably down-to-earth. The 67-year-old Redemptorist priest, a native of County Galway, has a sharp wit honed during a long career as an itinerant preacher and a highly developed sense of… Continue Reading
By Msgr. Francis A. Carbine During the summer, 2014, John McDevitt of Ardmore, Pa., visited the National Library of Ireland, Dublin, to research Catholic Sacramental Registers available on microfilm. His particular interest was the parish of Donaghpatrick, Diocese of Tuam,… Continue Reading
An Interview by Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew in August, 2014 issue of the Irish Edition. Now on newsstands and print edition.
By Brendan Clay John Byrne has music in his soul. He’s been singing since he was a young boy in Ireland, although he did not start doing it on stage until his late teens after giving up on his dreams… Continue Reading
and her race to the Governor’s Mansion by Sabina Clarke Katie McGinty all energy and enthusiasm walked briskly towards me and introduced herself at her campaign headquarters in center city Philadelphia. Dressed in an emerald green suit and pumps, she… Continue Reading
Photo (above): Jim Murray and Ronald McDonald at golf outing Making Murray on St. Patrick’s Day By Frank Dougherty When Jim Murray learned he had been named grand marshal for the 2014 Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, he felt he had received… Continue Reading
By Peter Makem Ian Paisley suddenly came back into everybody’s living room. Not as the ranting, roaring demagogue but as an old soft spoken somewhat confused 87 year old who had agreed to do a series of TV interviews reflecting… Continue Reading