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Amateur Sports

Amateur Sports: Roman Catholic Soccer Coach Chronicles His Team’s Last Year

March 22, 2021Dylan Robert Coyle

Raymond DeStephanis found out Roman would have an abbreviated 2020 fall season through social media.

Amateur Sports

Callowhill: Mission Accomplished for Roman Catholic Point Guard Lynn Greer III

March 5, 2018Easterling Evan and Ignudo Thomas

As Lynn Greer III warmed up in the layup line before Roman Catholic High School’s game against Neumann-Goretti just over a year ago, the freshman felt pain he never suffered before. When he landed, Greer’s

Amateur Sports

Center City: Roman Catholic’s Nazeer Bostick Becomes a Leader

November 17, 2015pnadmin

While basketball is not a major contact sport, aggressiveness and toughness are certainly important traits. Nazeer Bostick possesses both of these and has used them to become a leader on one of the top high

Amateur Sports

Northeast: Catholic High Schools Mixed About Pope

September 28, 2015pnadmin

George Todt looked at Archbishop Ryan High School’s rear grounds as he reflected on Pope John Paul II’s Oct. 3, 1979 visit to Philadelphia. John Paul II had come to a city where 1 million

Amateur Sports

Fox Chase: Soccer For Club and Community

April 6, 2015

Tucked away in Northeast Philadelphia behind Fox Chase Elementary lies Fox Chase Soccer Club. From the outside, it might not appear to be much – a red and white concession stand that doubles as a

Amateur Sports

North Philadelphia: Speedy Morris, Philadelphia’s Coach

March 31, 2015

Few people ever get their dream job. Fewer people get to do that job for over 45 years. And far fewer get that job without a college diploma. St. Joseph’s Preparatory School head coach Speedy

Fairhill

Fairhill: Demolished Landmark Symbolizes Tough Times for Catholic Parishes

April 18, 2014

The image is all too familiar of Industrial Era edifices – crumbling walls, blown-out windows, a palpable eeriness from the abandonment.  But this isn’t a description of the typical forsaken warehouse that has come to

Health

Hunting Park: Home for Incurable Cancer Helps Patients Prepare for Death

March 13, 2012

For more than 80 years, the Sacred Heart Home for Incurable Cancer has housed cancer patients on the corner of Park and Hunting Park avenues in North Philadelphia. Sister Marie Edward serves as director of

Recent Posts

  • People stand on a sidewalk beneath a pale gray sky. The street behind them is between two tan stone buildings with floor-to-ceiling glass windows on their ground levels, and the multicolored glass exterior of a parking garage shines further down the street, next to some taller red brick buildings. Glass windows are visible behind the people on the sidewalk. Some of them wear raincoats or windbreakers, and some of them hold umbrellas of various colors. Two men in the right half of the image, one southeast Asian and one white, wear clerical collars. They are all waving wooden rods with thick red ribbons tied to the ends of them in the air. Most of the people present appear to be white and/or over the age of 50. One bearded, middle-aged man in a gray and black windbreaker and black pants points a camera towards the bottom right corner of the image, where a blue banner reads “GOD STANDS WITH THE OPPRESSED.” To the banner’s left, a canvas with a monarch butterfly painted on it is draped over a concrete sidewalk barrier. A blue bicycle is parked behind the man with the camera, and a black car in the street drives past the group of people.
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