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Syrian refugee crisis has reached ‘tipping point,’ say USCCB officials
"Without more international support, we will find Syrians fleeing extremists being turned away and forced back to danger," said Anastasia Brown, interim executive director for USCCB's Migration and Refugee Services.
Pope Francis gets a better-than-fair shake
A top Vatican official and planner for the World Meeting of Families, plus students of St. Peter School, picked a special milkshake on Monday that the pope might love when he visits the city in September.
Cultural Heritage Mass coming to cathedral
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput will celebrate the annual Mass with members of all the immigrant groups residing in the Philadelphia Archdiocese on Saturday, March 14.
Northeast Phila. parishes unite to honor police officers
The Catholic parishes in the Mayfair section -- St. Matthew, St. Timothy and St. Bernard – will host a prayer service for Philadelphia’s police officers on Thursday, March 12 at 7 p.m. at St. Matthew Church.
Two talks for families at St. Peter Parish
The Respect Life Committee of St. Peter Parish in West Brandywine will sponsor the next talk in a series titled, "Life, Love and Sexuality - the Series" on Sunday, March 22 with one session for teens and another for adults.
St. Martin Parish prays for slain city officer and family
St. Martin de Porres Parish, located in North Philadelphia near where Philadelphia Police Officer Robert Wilson III was killed March 5, remembered him during a Mass celebrated Sunday, March 8.
Seminarians play basketball vs. Blessed Teresa’s CYO
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Limerick hosted a game between the high school CYO boys and a team of seminarians from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, all to support vocations.
Mass marks 50 years since Selma civil rights marches
The message of the civil rights movement has always been that all people are created in the image and likeness of God and that the dignity of all must be respected, said Archbishop Thomas Rodi, celebrant for Mass March 8 in Selma, Ala.
With Christians under new attacks by Islamic State, call for help renews
UPDATED - Syria's northeast Hassakeh province is emerging as the new battlefield in the fight against the extremist group. Analysts say the province, which extends into Iraq and Turkey, could become the fault line of a new and lengthy war.
1,300 Catholic men support each other and their faith
“Faith, Family and Fatherhood” was the theme for Man Up Philly’s seventh annual men’s spirituality conference, held March 7. "Fathers have to ‘man up’ and that is what we want to emphasize,” said an organizer.