Calendar of Events
St. Raymond’s and Catholic Social Services host community baby shower
The free Oct. 13 event will feature parenting classes and resources for families, as well as music, raffles, face painting and refreshments. The outreach is part of CSS's ongoing mission to moms, which assisted more than 5,000 women last year.
New exhibit recalls city’s deadly Spanish flu epidemic
An Oct. 3 reception will open the Catholic Historical Research Center's survey of the 1918-1919 outbreak of the disease in Philadelphia, which killed more than 10,000 locally and 30 million worldwide.
Catholic Business Professionals Networking Event
meet and network with local Catholic business professionals at a free event Oct. 25, including food and refreshments, at the Miraculous Medal Art Museum.
St. William Parish honors St. Francis with blessing of the animals
All are welcome to bring their pets to the Oct. 7 gathering, which will feature prayers, hymns and a splash of holy water for creatures of all sizes.
Fr. James Blount Presentation & Healing Mass
Join the Miraculous Medal Shrine community on Saturday, October 27, for a presentation and Healing Mass by Father James Blount, SOLT!
The Problem of Love: Is a Self-less Love Possible?
Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture welcomes participants to a 5-session seminar on The Problem of Love: Is a Self-less Love Possible? An Investigation of Classical and Christian Traditions, co-facilitated by Dr. Paul Camacho and Dr. Ian Clausen, both Arthur J. Ennis Post-doctoral Fellows in the Humanities at Villanova University.
St. Francis Xavier Forty Hours Devotion
All are welcome to join the community at St. Francis Xavier for their annual 40 hours.
St. John Neumann Shrine sets Forty Hours devotion
The national shrine invites all to the devotion Oct. 14-16, with special services at 7 p.m. for three days.
La Salle University hosts lecture on Oscar Romero
The Oct. 9 talk by Augustinian Father Arthur Purcaro will survey the life of the Salvadoran archbishop and martyr, who will be canonized on Oct. 14.
Fifth annual Operation Bundle Up collecting coats, winter gear
Archdiocesan Catholic Community Services, which supports youth and families in Northeast Philadelphia, aims to make 1,000 people warmer this winter.