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Cranaleith hosts online session on prayer, imagination, Scripture

Author and Sister of Mercy Joy Clough will reflect on how all three intersected with human experience in Jesus' own life, and in the stories through which he taught.

Malvern hosts Sacred Heart retreat for young adults

Father Steven DeLacy will lead a June 11-13 weekend featuring Mass, adoration, lection divina, fellowship and more at Malvern Retreat House.

All-Catholic teams named for softball, baseball

The Philadelphia Catholic League announced the first, second and third teams of outstanding players in two spring sports.

Masks no longer required in Philadelphia parishes, institutions

An updated announcement from the city's department of health lifts the iconic COVID restriction, as archdiocesan parishes move toward a full return to in-person worship.

Vatican project aims to make digital space a place of encounter

The Vatican gathered 16 young communication specialists from around the world to address "how the church can and should be present online," and foster dialogue in the often-polarized digital space.

Seniors throw sweet send-off for beloved kitchen manager

Before she hung up her apron for the last time, Carmen Aviles of the archdiocesan Norris Square Senior Community Center was surprised by clients grateful for her long ministry of feeding hearts.

Sense of hope is required for Catholic journalists, Archbishop Lori says

Hope allows Catholic communicators to describe the "signs of the times" not through the lens of ideology or ... animosity but by faith, the archbishop of Baltimore told attendees at a Mass during the Catholic Media Conference.

Parish garden spreads roots, fruits far and wide

Members of St. Cornelius in Chadds Ford have planted seeds yielding food for the hungry, while deepening their own faith and missionary outreach.

‘Communicate hope in the face of trying times,’ declares cardinal at CMC

While there is "an unfortunate tendency" to focus on the forces of evil, Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle urged people not to lose hope, but to "look for signs of civility, of goodness, of solidarity, of compassion."

Gregory: Catholic media’s task is to wed the facts to ‘truth of the Gospel’

Before the pandemic, society was "beginning to feel at times hopeless," Cardinal Wilton Gregory told Catholic journalists, who face the challenge of "enhancing hope" to remind people "we are not doing this alone. We are a people in journey together."