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Stay-at-home orders put some kids at risk for abuse
Close quarters, job loss and financial worries during the coronavirus pandemic can create stress that contributes to neglect and abuse of children, said an archdiocesan official who is seeing spikes in reports.
Clergy assignment change announced
Archbishop Nelson Perez announced that one priest of the Philadelphia Archdiocese will pursue graduate studies in Sacred Scripture.
Find a Mass livestreamed
See our list of 99 Catholic parishes, shrines and schools in the archdiocese streaming the Sunday and daily Masses while public liturgies are suspended during the coronavirus pandemic.
NDS reports 900% increase in free meals to kids during pandemic
Responding to the impact of the coronavirus, last week archdiocesan Nutritional Development Services distributed more than 28,000 federally funded school meals, intended to stretch food supplies at home.
Catholic ministries on front line of pandemic get help of civic charity
Three archdiocesan social service agencies will receive critically needed grants by the PHL COVID-19 Fund to help feed and care for vulnerable people during the coronavirus crisis.
Watch Easter Sunday Mass today from Cathedral
Archbishop Nelson Perez will be the celebrant for the Easter Sunday Mass on April 12 at 11 a.m., livestreamed from the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul and broadcast live on WHYY TV channel 12.
Solemn liturgies of Holy Week, Easter to be streamed from cathedral
Join Archbishop Nelson Perez as he celebrates and preaches for the liturgies of the Triduum and Easter, livestreamed this year from the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul.
Catholics urged to enter ‘very heart’ of faith while at home
The Ukrainian bishops of America, including Philadelphia's Metropolitan Archbishop Gudziak, encourage the faithful "to turn to the church’s treasury of prayer," individually or as a family, at home this Holy Week and Easter.
Archbishop celebrates Chrism Mass in empty cathedral; 36K watch online
While disappointed he could not celebrate the commemoration of the priesthood with priests in person, Archbishop Nelson Perez blessed the holy oils and celebrated Mass at the cathedral as 36,880 people viewed at home -- including priests.
Those who fed others now in food line themselves, driver says
Don Devlin, who delivers food to 40-plus sites for Nutritional Development Services, sees the impact of the coronavirus first hand. "The time is now," he said, for other volunteers "to make a difference."