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Port Richmond school touts first-ever high school matching scholarship
Thanks to its leadership and prodigious fundraising, Our Lady of Port Richmond School is offering each of eight graduating students a $2,000 scholarship to three archdiocesan high schools, who are matching the aid.
Archbishop announces clerical changes
Four changes of assignment were announced for archdiocesan clergy, and a new priest was welcomed for ministry and incardinated in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Parish and high school partner to open childcare center
Bishop Michael Fitzgerald blessed the new childcare center opened by Nativity of Our Lord Parish along with Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster.
Cultural Heritage Mass shines light on young people in the church
“Youth and Young Adults: The present and future of the Church” was the theme of the March 25 Mass celebrating 29 ethnic communities here. Archbishop Chaput told the young people that the Lord wants "the gift of yourself, now!”
Pottstown parish school takes over former Catholic high school
Thanks to a $1 million gift from the Foundation for Catholic Education and teamwork at St. Aloysius Parish, the school will move into a more spacious setting in September at the former St. Pius X High School, which closed in 2010.
Franciscan-educated Dr. Chris Domes named new head of Neumann U
The president of a Catholic college in Wisconsin has been named the new president of Neumann University, Aston. When he takes the helm July 1, he will succeed Dr. Rosalie Mirenda, who retires after 21 years.
Church ready to help seniors get the food aid they need
Catholic Health Care Services received a $35,000 grant to help seniors with the paperwork to receive federal food assistance. Most seniors are eligible for the help but don't know how to access the benefits.
Sisters of St. Joseph open Welcome Center for new arrivals in Olney
The pastor of St. Helena Parish in Philadelphia blessed a new center that will aid seniors and immigrants through English language classes. He also blessed the parish food pantry and led renewal of the sisters' vows.
Helping Hands at St. Monica’s get to work feeding the world
Some 280 volunteers, led by the Catholic Young Adults of Chester County, met at the parish in Berwyn to make a difference in the world by packaging 50,000 meal bags through a Catholic Relief Services project.
Archbishop Chaput: Enforce immigration laws, don’t separate families
The right of people to find work outside their own country is "a matter of basic human rights," Archbishop Charles Chaput said March 19 during a prayer service at the cathedral. In the contentious immigration debate, "we need to resist the temptation to demonize those with whom we disagree,” he said.