Hanson, Sheila E., Aimee Mann, Arrested Development, Ruben Studdard and UB40 are some of the acts playing free concerts this summer in Camden, Haddon Township.
Record collector and researcher Bill Bronk dives deep into the art of handclapping as an instrument, and compiles a list of the great handclapping hits on the Top 40 in the 1950s.
Msgr. James F. Connelly
By Lou Baldwin • Posted December 10, 2020
Msgr. James F. Connelly, 89, pastor emeritus of Stella Maris Parish in Philadelphia, died Dec. 5.
Born in Philadelphia the son of the late James H. Connelly and the late Mary (Devlin) Connelly, he attended St. Joan of Arc School and St. Joseph Preparatory School before entering St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.
He also attended the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome where he obtained a licentiate in theology and a doctorate in church history.
He was ordained in Rome on Dec. 17, 1955 by Archbishop Martin J. O’Connor, rector of the North American College.
His first assignment upon his return to Philadelphia was as parochial vicar at St. Gabriel Parish, Norwood, followed by St. John the Baptist, Philadelphia, and faculty of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary where he rose to the position of vice rector.