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Chester parish holds Mercy Day with area youth ministry
More than 35 students in seventh to 12th grades in Delaware County took part in a day of prayer and community service Nov. 7 at St. Katharine Drexel Parish in Chester.
Bucks County school dedicates new Pre-K Center
St. Katharine Drexel Regional Catholic School in Holland held a Nov. 6 blessing of its new facility in honor of Father William F. McGeown, late pastor of Assumption B.V.M. Parish in Feasterville.
Gesu School symposium looks at violence in the media
Panelists provided insights and expertise on how schools can help students become smart consumers of news, especially as they grapple with the psychological effects of exposure to tragic and graphic news.
A family that doesn’t eat together is ‘hardly a family,’ pope says
"When children at the dinner table are glued to the computer, or the telephone and do not listen to one another, they are not a family, they are retired," the pope said Nov. 11 during his weekly general audience.
New Jersey Catholic hospitals worry they’ll be left out of new alliance
In September, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey unveiled the OMNIA health alliance, a collaboration with a number of large health systems to change how care is provided and reimbursed.
Sister who cooks for soup kitchen wins prize on Food Network’s ‘Chopped’
On the show, Sister Alicia, 30, a Franciscan of the Eucharist of Chicago who ministers at Chicago's Mission of Our Lady of the Angels, competed against three other chefs who, like herself, work in soup kitchens.
St. Mary Medical Center gets ready to light its tree
The Community League of St. Mary invites all to the Lights of Love celebration in which the hospital's Christmas tree will have small white lights in honor of loved ones or in their memory.
As church demographics shift, Catholics urged to address ‘sin of racism’
A "seismic shift in demographics" in both society and the U.S. Catholic Church in the coming decades will create a church that is far less white, Father Bryan Massingale told a New Orleans audience Nov. 6.
Milwaukee’s bankruptcy plan approved, provides $21 million for survivors
A nearly five-year chapter in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee's history came to a close Nov. 9, when Chief Judge Susan V. Kelley of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin approved the archdiocese's plan of reorganization.
To help people, church must be in touch with ‘reality,’ pope says
Christians must have "healthy contact with reality, with what people are going through, with their tears and joys -- it is the only way to be able to help, form and communicate with them," the pope said.