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Finding self through service: The experience of long-term volunteers
In a fairly industrial-looking part of South Boston, four women gathered in a classroom at the Notre Dame Education Center. It was time for their twice-per-week math lessons with AmeriCorps volunteer Nason Heywood, 29.
Catholic, Lutheran partnership to help area’s migrant children
Catholic Social Services will house and teach 12 adolescent boys, referred by Lutheran Children and Family Services in CSS’ Bensalem group homes starting Sept. 1.
St. Agnes Parish to mark Mary’s feast day
The West Chester parish invites all to the 96th annual celebration of the Feast of the Assumption on Sunday, Aug. 16, with Mass, breakfast, procession and benediction.
Ukrainian Folk Festival coming to Horsham
Ukrainian folk art, music and dancing by ensembles and individuals will be featured at the 24th annual celebration.
Church musicians to hold retreat
The Association of Church Musicians in Philadelphia offers a summer retreat for members and non-members at Cranaleith Retreat Center in Northeast Philadelphia.
Papal message for World Peace Day to focus on overcoming indifference
Selfishness and fear keep too many people ignorant of the suffering of others and prevent them from finding creative ways to express solidarity and to promote peace, said a statement from the Vatican's justice and peace office.
Forgiveness at heart of healing after Ferguson violence, says archbishop
"Jesus tells us that if we receive him as the bread of life, we will have his life within us," Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis said in his homily at a Mass for peace and justice Aug. 9 at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. "He shows what this life means on the cross, when he forgives those who killed him."
Catholic agencies decry administration’s response on detention ruling
The Catholic Legal Immigration Network and the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas decried the Obama administration's effort to have a judge set aside her orders for the release of families being held in immigration detention centers.
In U.S. many expect pope to discuss ‘shameful plague’ of trafficking
Last spring, a Cincinnati man who was convicted of imprisoning and transporting multiple women for the purpose of commercial sex in the Ohio-Kentucky region was sentenced to 180 months for operating a sex trafficking scheme.
Care for creation, care for each other, pope says in radio interview
Caring for all of creation includes paying particular attention to the needs of young people and the aged, Pope Francis told the audience of a Catholic radio station in Argentina.