PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
By John P. Martin
Inquirer Staff Writer
Sacred Heart is a tightly knit Catholic parish in Swedesburg, a working-class town across the Schuylkill from Norristown.
Ethnic roots run deep at the century-old church. It’s the kind of place that still offers a monthly Mass in Polish, where parishioners linger on Sunday mornings to chat after the final hymn.
That’s when Bernard Gutkowski, president of the parish men’s group, typically gets the question: What do you hear about Father Andy? His reply rarely changes. Not much.
Father Andy is the Rev. Andrew McCormick, Sacred Heart’s pastor since 2004 and a priest Gutkowski credits with reinvigorating the church.
Then, in a blink last March, McCormick was gone.
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