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Getting creative, going social at Catholic senior centers
Companionship and creative arts enhance participants' experience at archdiocesan senior centers, promoting personal growth and well-being.
Catholic senior centers help older adults stay healthy, connected
Through several community-based sites, Catholic Housing and Community Services provides seniors with meals, exercise, art classes, benefits assistance -- and a second home.
Raised in Philadelphia, Maryknoll priest calls Kenya home
Once a member of St. Martin of Tours Parish, Father Lance Nadeau has spent close to 30 years working in a number of African nations, where the Catholic faith is thriving.
Once hostile to faith, doctor and deacon shares how to work for God
In a July 25 talk, Dr. Alfred Mauriello traced his path back to Catholicism and his journey to the permanent diaconate. A member of St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish, he advised young adults on how to find the Lord on the job.
Pizza and parenting make for a great lunch lesson by Catholic Community Services
At a July 19 lunchtime seminar, participants rolled up their sleeves to make slices, while learning how to strengthen their families.
Big splashes for little ones at annual Catholic Social Services picnic
Some 800 kids from the archdiocese's 12 Out of School Time (OST) sites enjoyed a day of fun in the sun at the July 20 event, now in its eighth year.
St. Katharine Drexel’s tomb will move to Phila. cathedral
In coming weeks the remains of Philadelphia's saintly heiress-turned-nun will be transferred to the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul from her shrine in Bensalem, which will be sold due to dwindling numbers of sisters.
New Philadelphia women’s center offers ‘authentic Catholic health care’
The National Gianna Center, a pro-life women's clinic, recently opened a local office in Northeast Philadelphia. The center provides gynecological and reproductive care consistent with church teaching.
Once-shy camper grows into teen role model, thanks to Catholic camp
As a boy who was too shy to talk, Nabil Alattia now works with kids at the Catholic Social Services summer camp he once attended, applying the life skills he learned through a CSS neighborhood center.
Men, women with same-sex attraction take Courage at conference
The international Catholic ministry held its annual meeting July 12-14 at Villanova University, where 450 participants shared how "we are all as welcome as any other member of the parish."