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Polish American Festival coming to Doylestown
More than 25,000 visitors are expected for this year's event, Sept. 4-6 and Sept. 10-11, featuring Polish culture with live music and dance, arts and crafts, ethnic Polish food and amusement rides.
I.H.M. sister to lead day-long program on Our Lady of Sorrows
The Neumann Adult Spirituality Enrichment Ministry in Warminster will offer a program Sept. 14 by Sister Mary Virginia Quinn on how Mary accompanies us through the sorrows and joys of our lives.
Slain French priest was attack on ‘all of us,’ English imam says
Father Jacques Hamel's gruesome murder in northern France July 26 -- by men allied with the Islamic State -- prompted sorrow and outrage from Muslim leaders and signs of solidarity with Catholics.
Superhero cape project brings joy to young patients
The eighth graders at a Catholic school in Baton Rouge made capes for sick children, including a 4-year-old undergoing leukemia treatments who ran up and down the hospital's halls with her cape.
Bishop tours flood-wracked West Virginia town trying to recover
Residents of a town ravaged by floods in June showed Bishop Michael Bransfield how they are rebuilding their homes. The faith community is addressing the lack of basic necessities and other resources.
Teach your elders well: Pope calls youths to be models for adults
At World Youth Day July 30, Pope Francis asked young people to show adults how to "live with diversity, in dialogue, to experience multiculturalism not as a threat but an opportunity." Christians should watch their tongues and their texting fingers, he said.
Pope Francis urges World Youth Day volunteers to be ‘hope of the future’
Departing from World Youth Day in Poland, the pope thanked more than 15,000 organizers and urged young people "to be courageous, not fearful." The next WYD event will be in Panama in 2019.
Don’t equate Islam with violence, pope says
At a press conference during his flight back to Rome, Pope Francis said violence exists in all religions, including Catholicism, and it cannot be pinned to one single religion.
Charges against Planned Parenthood video creators dropped
A Texas district attorney cleared David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt who created a series of undercover videos last year alleging Planned Parenthood affiliate officials discussed selling fetal tissue and organs.
Learning of homelessness at the library — not by books, but by men
Some men who used to live on Philadelphia's streets, including the Ben Franklin Parkway, spoke July 26 at a Project HOME forum at the Free Library on that very street. They described the hope in their lives today.