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Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral welcomes all for visitation and prayer
The golden-domed Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia offers special hours for Holy Week. Byzantine icons, mosaics, relics and a Shroud of Turin replica are on view.
Parishes support families, learn about World Meeting
About 40 parishes have hosted an information session about the September event, about 20 parishes are preparing to offer a faith formation course afterward and more than a dozen others have scheduled family programs.
Young adults put priests on the hot seats
Father Tom Whittingham gathered with three priest friends who were game to field questions from a crowd of 100, in an event dubbed "Stump the Priest" last week.
Archbishop Chaput announces clergy changes
Ten clerical appointments were made public today, March 27, including three changes at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.
On Romero Day, leaders get to know the poor
Sister Mary Scullion, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Mayor Michael Nuttler and other business and civic leaders met poor people in the region Monday, marking Archbishop Oscar Romero's death.
When Sister knocks, doors open, and she listens
Sister Mary Praxedes, member of a religious order devoted to parish visitation, is spreading the Catholic faith one home at a time in St. Katherine of Siena Parish, Philadelphia.
Archbishop Chaput sends Passover greetings to Jewish community
“At the heart of the Passover Seder is the gathering of family and friends," the archbishop wrote in letters to rabbis in Philadelphia. Through the family, "divine love is recalled and relived in our challenging times," he wrote.
Everyone is equal, archbishop tells disabilities community at Mass
Archbishop Charles Chaput thanked the persons with disabilities, their families and caregivers, and the deaf community for thinking and acting differently than the world does, at the annual Mass with them.
St. Laurentius Church to be demolished
The church of the former Polish parish in Fishtown, which had been closed for a year because of the danger of collapse, will be torn down at a cost of $1 million. Saving it would have cost millions more, a study showed.
Holocaust recalled in rare, joint concert tonight at cathedral
Devotees of fine choral music are in for a special treat this evening, Friday, March 20 through a rare performance by choirs of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish singers, and a chamber orchestra.