Higher, Faster, Stronger: The Olympics
...La Salle University Explorers on the court. Image is in the public domain. Michael Brooks, a graduate of West Catholic Preparatory High School and La Salle University, was named Captain of Men’s Basketball Team to compete at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Brooks and the team never competed in the
CORDUM
...d Bishop Martin N. Lohmuller, the Vicar General, as Chairman of the new committee. This Committee was established to study and make recommendations concerning the serious and urgent problems confronting the Church of Philadelphia relative to continuing and even expanding the apostolate in the inner-city areas. The work of CORDUM
Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia
...e school until 1967. Holy Providence In 1909, Katharine Drexel received permission from Archbishop Ryan to establish a mission in Germantown. Under the patron of St. Catherine of Siena, the church was built in 1914 and the school opened the following year. The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament created an