no one in Philadelphia ever thought the church would shutter Cardinal Dougherty High School. Not the flagship campus that once boasted 6,000 students and billed itself as the biggest Catholic ...

PHILADELPHIA - Even as financially strapped Catholic schools continue to close across the country, no one in Philadelphia ever thought the church would shut Cardinal Dougherty High School.

“We looked at trends, capacity and enrollment,” Rigali said Opened in 1956 in Olney , Cardinal Dougherty High School once had the largest enrollment of any Catholic high school in America. At its ...

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NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It's been 50 years since members of the Cardinal Dougherty Marching Band won the high school world music championship. This weekend they reunited in Northeast ...

Stephen Fediuk a 2010 graduate of Cardinal Dougherty High School, is the winner of The Philadelphia Protestant Home Mavis Morrissey Memorial Scholarship. Fediuk, who is part of Dougherty’s final ...

When he returned to Philadelphia in 1966, he was named assistant pastor of St. John the Evangelist Parish and was part of the faculty at Cardinal Dougherty High School from 1967 to 1984.

Koscielniak told police that the Rev. James Burson from the former Cardinal Dougherty High School in Buffalo molested him in 1979 on a weekend retreat in Amherst. “I wanted a public record of it.