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Today’s teaching on the family
See the daily excerpt from the preparatory catechesis for the 2015 World Meeting of Families, “Love is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive.”
Celtic Spirituality Retreat
The Mother Boniface Spirituality Center in Northeast Philadelphia is hosting a Celtic Spirituality retreat March 6-8.
Young Adult Retreat
The Mother Boniface Spirituality Center in Northeast Philadelphia will offer a one-day retreat for young adults (ages 18-35) on Saturday, March 7 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Women’s Retreat
The Mother Boniface Spirituality Center in Northeast Philadelphia will host a women’s retreat Feb. 27 to March 1.
Parish Presentation
Steve Ray, Catholic convert and author, will be the guest speaker at St. Bede the Venerable Parish in Holland on Saturday, March 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Catholic League hoops’ playoff picture coming into focus
Quarterfinals play for boys basketball pits league rivals heading into the finals in two weeks, following a dramatic triple overtime contest to end the regular season.
Gov. Wolf halts death penalty in Pa., pending study
Archbishop Charles Chaput praised the announcement by Gov. Tom Wolf today that he is granting a reprieve for death row inmate Terrence Williams and 186 others while a study of capital punishment in Pennsylvania is underway.
Boys basketball All-Catholics named
The coaches of the Philadelphia Catholic League have voted their first, second and third-team standouts for the 2014-2015 season in boys basketball.
Mission of Catholic schools to evangelize, sanctify, says archbishop
Amid banner newspaper headlines, and a stream of television stories about Catholic sexual morality clauses in the Archdiocese of San Francisco high school handbooks, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presented his vision of Catholic education Feb. 6.
Measles outbreak prompts Hill hearing on falling immunization rates
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions convened Feb. 10 for a hearing on the current crisis of falling immunization rates among children in the United States in the wake of a recent measles outbreak that has, so far, affected 121 people in 17 states and the District of Columbia.