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Take a moment to learn more for your marriage
National Marriage Week continues through Feb. 14, and Archbishop Charles Chaput says it's a time "to focus on building a culture of life and love that begins with supporting and promoting marriage and the family,"
Happy marriages become stronger with Marriage Encounter
With careers and grown children, Tom and Julie Gennaro didn't have any big problems in their marriage. But after winning a raffle for an Encounter weekend, they deepened their relationship. Now they help other couples, too.
Couple clears up misconceptions on Natural Family Planning
Helene and John Hallowell of Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Secane, counsel soon-to-be-married couples, sharing their practice of NFP. “There is no money in it" for pharmaceutical companies or Planned Parenthood, said John.
At De La Salle Vocational, lives are turned around with graduation tassels
The high school program, an outreach of Catholic Social Services, provides life-changing education and job skills for troubled boys who "conquer the challenges that are set in our path," said a graduate.
Millions of Eagles fans rock city in joyous championship parade
Dreams do come true. Up to 2 million fans of the Philadelphia Eagles streamed into the city Feb. 8 to show their passion at a parade and rally to welcome their heroes and see the long hoped-for Lombardi Trophy.
CRS Rice Bowl offers way to help the hungry near and far
The venerable Lenten program of prayer, donations and awareness -- try some of the recipes from homes in Nicaragua, Iraq or Burkina Faso -- launched Feb. 2 at a West Philadelphia food pantry, which also benefits from funds raised.
Dominican priests to take over ministry at St. Patrick Parish
On July 1 the parish in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square neighborhood for the past 179 years will be led by five Dominicans, who also have served in the Philadelphia Archdiocese since its start.
School closures, new details emerge for Eagles’ first-ever Super Bowl parade
A parade whose size may be dwarfed only by the tsunami of emotions flowing from it will take place in Philadelphia on Thursday, Feb. 8. See the latest details, including Catholic school closures, for the parade.
Archbishop Chaput: God bless ‘Cinderella’ Eagles, their wonderful city
In a statement following the Philadelphia Eagles' world championship victory Sunday night in Super Bowl LII, Archbishop Charles Chaput congratulated the team's "character, courage and refusal to quit."
Bishop Joseph Cistone tells of lung cancer, asks for prayers
The Philadelphia native priest and currently bishop of Saginaw, Mich., told the faithful in a letter of his diagnosis. His prognosis after chemotherapy is expected to be good since "I was never a smoker," he said.