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Keeping kids healthy in a peaceful summer
Nutritional Development Services will offer healthy foods to children at 400 sites in the region while school is out for the summer. Joined with an initiative to promote peace in their neighborhoods, kids receive food for body and soul in the Summer Meals Program.
Clergy assignment changes announced
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput announces the following appointments effective June 30 unless otherwise noted.
From North Philadelphia, a priest for the inner city
Parish priests and the Sisters of Mercy inspired Father Richard Owens toward ordination as a Capuchin Franciscan priest. His vocation was sown in his family, at Our Lady of Hope Parish and at Mercy Vocational, the only Catholic vocational high school in the United States.
Sisters’ ministry to the poor of Kensington flourishes
Parishes may close, but the St. Joseph’s Sisters Welcome Center keep the church’s presence and outreach to people on the margins strong.
Formerly homeless women get spiritual boost in Malvern
Malvern Retreat House hosted 53 women served by Catholic Social Services, along with some staff, for a free overnight retreat that helped them discover God's healing love in their lives.
Clergy assignment changes announced
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput announces the following appointments effective June 30.
Inspiring and supporting families, like her own
As the new programming director for next year’s World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, Mary Beth Yount brings long experience as teacher, wife and mother to developing the topics that visitors to the event will be discussing.
St. Francis de Sales School wins in state computer fair
Seventh graders of the Aston, Delaware County, Catholic school had two third-place awards in the state finals of a computer project fair for middle schoolers.
Msgr. Joseph Logrip found suitable to return to ministry
The 67-year-old priest had been suspended along with 25 others following the 2011 Philadelphia Grand Jury report. His was the last of those cases to be resolved. Allegations of sexual abuse against Msgr. Logrip were found to be unsubstantiated.
New deacons among clergy assignment changes
The seven permanent deacons ordained June 7 received their first parish assignments from Archbishop Charles Chaput, who also announced several other assignments.