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In Nigeria, nuns work to decrease deaths of mothers, children
It doesn't take expensive technology to prevent women from dying in childbirth and children from dying young, as a Catholic diocese and the Medical Missionaries of Mary learned. It does take skill and wide outreach.
‘Warriors to Lourdes’ make prayer kits for Ukrainian soldiers
Some 175 U.S. active-duty military personnel and veterans on a pilgrimage to Mary's shrine at Lourdes, France made and shipped 3,000 kits to active-duty and injured Ukrainian soldiers.
What do Americans think about abortion? It’s complicated
With all the developments on abortion and polling of it over 50 years, Gallup finds that support for legal abortion has gone up all of 1%, and opposition is down by the same 1% -- with complex factors in between.
World in ‘profound anthropological crisis,’ pope says
The Catholic Church must "lift up those who are wounded" in a world that is disrupting humanity's desire for peace, Pope Francis told members of an institute for psychology, whose members address "the challenges of life."
Join the ordination of archdiocese’s new priests
Everyone is invited to participate in person or from home as six new priests for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia are ordained this Saturday, May 21 at the cathedral. The Mass and livestream will begin at 10 a.m.
Montco parish showcases Ukraine’s dances to save children amid war
St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in Jenkintown hosted a May 15 benefit featuring performers from the Voloshky School, with proceeds funding humanitarian aid for kids in war-torn Ukraine.
Asian American Catholic woman takes pride in culture’s overlooked saints
Sarah Hoyoung Ku, a Korean American and Catholic convert, and her Chinese American husband found few religious images of their Asian heritage for themselves and their five children, so she started an Instagram account to change that.
Efforts kick off to spread Gospel message person to person
A new archdiocesan commission to revitalize the local church and build missionary discipleship has begun its work, and it's already taking root in parishes.
Miracles of medical science, and the divine, happen at Torresdale
At a hospital campus of Jefferson Health-Northeast in Philadelphia, new therapies and robotic tools restore health for loved ones, in addition to a man's miraculous healing thanks to St. Katharine Drexel's prayers.
Where St. Katharine rode, cancer center rises in N.E. Phila.
A Level 1 Trauma Center at the new Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia's Torresdale section offers care on grounds that used to be the Drexel family's country retreat.