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Here’s how to share food with the hungry during Lent
In a season of giving up food and giving it, Nutritional Development Services is running canned good campaigns, online drives and CRS Rice Bowl as ways to offer hope and "a place at the table" for others.
Canada’s safe injection sites show flawed model for Phila.
Vancouver-based Insite, the model for Philadelphia's supervised drug consumption room, has provided “clinical treatment" in just over 1% of the 3.6 million visits it has seen since 2003.
South Philly faithful raise voices against drug injection site
Catholic parishioners were among 2,000 participants at a March 1 rally to protest Philadelphia's plans to open a supervised drug consumption room. They called for better treatment and health insurance.
Parishes offering full slate of Lenten programs
Catholics seeking a “full conversion of heart" this Lent will find numerous spiritual and educational events scheduled in the six weeks of the season at archdiocesan parishes. See our selections near you.
Two liturgies to honor St. Katharine Drexel on feast day
On her feast Tuesday, March 3, a sung Mass in the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul at 12:05 p.m. and an Evening of Song and Prayer at 7 will be celebrated in the home of the shrine to the saint.
Students celebrate African-American saints in the making
At a Feb. 25 prayer service sponsored by the archdiocesan Office for Black Catholics, youth reflected on men and women who reflected "the joy, pain and resilience that exemplifies the black Catholic experience.”
South Philly school’s book drive honors memory of student
The family of Salvatore DiNubile, who was killed by gunfire in 2017, and leaders of Our Lady of Hope Regional Catholic School are collecting books so today's students can absorb his insatiable love for reading.
South Philly parishioners stand up against safe injection site
Anthony Giordano and his wife Lisa of St. Monica Parish are taking their faith to the streets, using grassroots activism to peacefully protest Philadelphia's plans to open a consumption facility for illegal drugs.
There’s ‘something about the ashes,’ says Archbishop Perez
Addressing some 2,000 Ash Wednesday Mass attendees at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, Archbishop Nelson Perez described Lent as "an incredible season of grace and blessing."
As Great Fast begins, Ukrainian Catholic prelate seeks forgiveness
Metropolitan-Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia asked the faithful to begin Lent by pardoning him for "offenses and unfulfilled expectations," and urged them to do the same for each other.