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‘Meet Them Where They Are’: Faith in Finance Club Gives Archbishop Carroll Students View of God in the Everyday
This is part one of a three-part series in a series in how Archdiocesan schools offer faith-in-action opportunities to students.
‘Love is an Action Verb’: Catholic Social Services, Real Alternatives Make Significant Impact in the Lives of New and Expecting Moms
Catholic Social Services has been providing support services to pregnant and parenting women with funding from Real Alternatives, a non-profit organization that has administered the Pregnancy and Parenting Support Services for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for some 27 years.
Students at Delaware County, West Philadelphia Catholic Schools to Receive One-Year St. Jude Hope Scholarship
New and existing students at Independence Mission Schools' SS. Cyril & Philomena and Our Mother of Sorrows/St. Ignatius of Loyola will receive the financial aid for the 2023-2024 school year.
Reverend Victor F. Sharrett
Reverend Victor F. Sharrett, Pastor Emeritus, Saint Patrick Parish, Kennett Square died on Monday, May 8, 2023.
Rosalie M. Mirenda, president emeritus of Neumann University, dies at 85
Rosalie's career evolved into a nurse educator, dean, provost and, ultimately President of Neumann University in Aston, PA. After serving 21 years as president, Rosalie retired from the presidency as President Emeritus in 2017.
Meet the Men: 7 Men to be Ordained New Priests Saturday Morning
Get to know each of the men to be ordained and their faith journeys that led them to priesthood.
Seminarian Follows God’s Lead to Philadelphia and the Priesthood
Wesly Taveras Medina became an altar server during his teenage years, and “seeing the witness of my pastors in my parish, seeing them giving their lives for the parish, that showed me a life completely different from what the world offers,” he says.
Businessman Goes from Searching for Goods to Searching for Souls
As a boy, Kenneth Omeke “loved playing soccer” and also enjoyed being an altar server. “I loved serving Mass,” he says. That’s when his interest in the priesthood first began.
Parents’ Marital Love and Personal Healing lead to the Priesthood
As a young boy, John Okpara played soccer and was an altar server. At age 14, he joined the Legion of Mary, which "drew me closer to the altar, where I discovered my vocation," he said.
Pharmacist Leaves the American Dream for Life in the Priesthood
Le’s first visit to St. Charles Seminary was in 2012 with his pastor. Le says at first, he didn’t think seminary life was for him. After continuing to pray and discern, he finally made the decision to leave his pharmacy career and enter St. Charles in 2016.