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Port Richmond school touts first-ever high school matching scholarship
Thanks to its leadership and prodigious fundraising, Our Lady of Port Richmond School is offering each of eight graduating students a $2,000 scholarship to three archdiocesan high schools, who are matching the aid.
French priest pleads for safety of North Korean Christian refugees
Father Philippe Blot, who works with the Paris Foreign Mission Society, described the situation facing North Korean refugees as "becoming ever more dramatic" as they flee to China to avoid dying of hunger.
Bishops urge Congress to take bipartisan approach on health care reform
UPDATED - Now that lawmakers have withdrawn the bill, Congress must "seize this moment to create a new spirit of bipartisanship" and make "necessary reforms" in existing health care law to address access, affordability, life and conscience, said three U.S. bishops' committee chairmen.
Archbishop announces clerical changes
Four changes of assignment were announced for archdiocesan clergy, and a new priest was welcomed for ministry and incardinated in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Pro-life advocates who made undercover videos charged with 15 felonies
UPDATED - California prosecutors March 28 charged David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt with felonies for filming 14 people without permission. One felony count was filed for each person and the 15th count was for criminal conspiracy to invade privacy.
U.S. Supreme Court examines pension plans of religious hospitals
The case hinges on interpretation of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, which requires pension plans to be fully funded and insured. Congress amended that law in 1980 to carve out a narrow exemption for churches and other religious organizations.
Parish and high school partner to open childcare center
Bishop Michael Fitzgerald blessed the new childcare center opened by Nativity of Our Lord Parish along with Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster.
Panel: Archives of religious orders tell history of U.S. church
Archives particularly show the roles women religious played in the country's education, hospitals, immigrant communities and social movements, they said, and yet there's a danger of losing some of that history as convents merge or close, and their historical materials are discarded, lost or scattered.
Archbishop: Belarusians devoted to Fatima, still struggle with secularism
People in Belarus -- a former Soviet republic -- have a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, and so does the archbishop who leads them.
Bishop concerned U.S. won’t meet carbon emission goals after Trump order
The executive order, signed March 28 at the Environmental Protection Agency, fails to offer a "sufficient plan for ensuring proper care for people and creation," Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice Florida, said in a statement March 29.