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Broadcaster Vin Scully wins Gabriel Personal Achievement Award
Broadcaster Vin Scully, who for 67 years has done play-by-play for the Dodgers in Los Angeles and before that in Brooklyn, New York, received the Gabriel Personal Achievement Award
Sisters who also are mothers bring new perspectives to religious life
Sister Johnson said this particular phenomenon, while not new, is another sign of increasing diversity in the "very dynamic reality" of Catholic religious life.
Survey finds growing interest among Catholics in reading the Bible
"There's come, I think, some very encouraging data on Catholics" thanks to the so-called "Francis effect," Jason Malec, U.S. mission director for the society said.
Catholic newcomers to Philadelphia raise their prayers — not only in English
On any Sunday in parishes of the Philadelphia Archdiocese, 17,000 people pray at Mass in 20 different languages other than English, with Spanish the leading tongue. Diversity in language goes back two centuries in the archdiocese.
Seamstresses hope their work offers comfort to grieving families
Sarah Novak heard about a cousin of her sister-in-law who delivered a stillborn baby late in her pregnancy. Novak wanted to do something to help ease their family's pain.
Swiss church official deplores vote allowing genetic testing of embryos
The law permitting the genetic testing of embryos would allow imperfect human embryos to be discarded.
Iona: Scotland’s ‘thin place’ between earth and heaven
When the Irish St. Columba settled here with a dozen monks in the sixth century, it was a dangerous, forbidding place. Today, it's still a stark setting for religious contemplation.
Sales of illegal guns, and the boys they kill, focus of city prayer service
A long line of more than 100 T-shirts, symbolizing Philadelphia boys shot to death, stretched out by St. Rita of Cascia Shrine on Broad Street in South Philadelphia, part of a campaign to stop gun violence.
Seminary’s lay graduates invited to day of recollection
The Alumni Association of the School of Theological Studies (formerly the Religious Studies Division) at St. Charles Seminary is hosting a reflection, Mass and barbecue for graduates on June 26.
Seminary’s School of Theological Studies offers new degree
Formerly called the Religious Studies Division and in recent years the Graduate School of Theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, a new master's in philosophy joins traditional degree and certification programs.