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School Assemblies Extend AbbeyFest’s Evangelizing Energy to Area’s Youth
Four Catholic high schools and a Catholic grade school are set to host upcoming assemblies with AbbeyFest artists. The music festival’s outreach program offers students a fun invitation to encounter Christ at their school.
New Jersey Catholic Artist Records 1,000-Year-Old Gregorian Chant
Dr. Carly York believes she has recorded “O Nata Lux de Lumine” for the first time in history. Chant, she said, “helps us enter into a spirit of reverence before the Lord … because it's so different from anything else we hear in modern life.”
Catholics Praise God’s Gift of Nature in Care for Creation Mass
The Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church in Center City Philadelphia Sept. 2 kicked off the five-week Season of Creation, tied to the life of St. Francis of Assisi.
Lansdale Catholic Alumni Share Gifts in Jamaica Service Trip
More than a dozen graduates of the archdiocesan high school lived with 35 youths and adults with disabilities in a Jamaican town for a week in July, cherishing the gifts of encounter and compassion.
Handmade Santas Keep Archbishop Wood Teacher’s Legacy Alive
For nine years, Gabbie Snyder and Gail Roessler have honored their late sister, longtime Archbishop Wood teacher Gerri Garofalo, by making handmade Santas from Catholic school uniforms to raise money for a scholarship in her memory.
Time for Gratitude: Little Sisters of the Poor Honor Archdiocese
When the sisters who run Holy Family Home host their annual gala Sept. 27, they will thank the clergy and people of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who have supported the sisters’ mission to serve the city’s elderly poor for more than 150 years.
Risen From Ashes, New St. Francis of Assisi School Opens in Springfield
The primary building of the school was destroyed by fire almost two years ago. Archbishop Pérez blessed the new, $7 million building Sept. 1, rebuilt through the commitment of the parish community in Delaware County.
St. Charles Seminary Releases Annual Report
St. Charles Borromeo Seminary welcomed 140 seminarians during the 2025-26 academic year and celebrated 20 ordinations to the priesthood in 2026, according to its latest annual report.
Professor at Seminary, Villanova U Named to Vatican Committee on History
Last month Pope Leo XIV named Dr. Francesco Cesareo a member of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, which works “to preserve and nurture historical truth,” said the distinguished professor of history.
‘American Idol’ Finalist to Headline 12th Annual AbbeyFest
Performer Danny Gokey will cap the day-long celebration of the Christian music festival, which includes Mass and adoration, for the second year at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown.