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Carols by Candlelight with Sts. Agatha and James
Please join St Agatha and James and students of the Penn Newman Center as a community to celebrate Christmas in the Christian tradition.
Youth Christmas Concert 2019
Join us for an Advent and Christmas concert by youth of our diocese.
Bethlehem family feels the pull of living in the town of Jesus’ birth
Brothers Peter and Eli Hosh grew up knowing that their hometown was not only the place where they went to school and ran down to the corner market for their mother, but the town where Jesus was born.
Iraqi patriarch appeals for aid to Christians in Ninevah Plain
Two years after the Islamic State's defeat in Iraq, there is "a crucial need" to help young people build a future in their homeland and for a comprehensive health service, said Cardinal Louis Sako.
Blue makes debut as new Holy Family U mascot
Boosting spirits at the Northeast Philadelphia university's events and campus life, Blue can’t wait to mix and mingle with the crowds at games and help them get loud.
They stand up, and speak up, for sanctity of life
More than 1,200 gathered Nov. 24 as the Pro-Life Union of Greater Philadelphia honored those working to assist abortion-vulnerable women through an array of professional and volunteer efforts.
Grieving in Advent: St. Paul Parish offers hope to bereaved
Some three dozen people came to the South Philadelphia parish Dec. 3 for a talk by pastoral ministers on how to manage feelings of loss for loved ones during Christmas, and still "to see ourselves as blessed.”
Catholics mark anniversary of child’s death at border
Jakelin Caal Maquin died in December 2018 at the El Paso Children's Hospital in Texas of a bacterial infection and, at the time, she and her father were under detention by border agents.
Supreme Court leaves temporary stop on federal executions in place
The U.S. Supreme Court has left in place a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from carrying out the first federal executions in 16 years.
Experts: Global protests reflect ire over inequality, corruption
Although sparked by different events, protests in Chile, Colombia, Haiti, Hong Kong, Lebanon and Iraq reflect a common frustration with economic injustice and corrupt governments.