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Image of your home can help mission for homeless people

Your home can become a portrait suitable for gift-giving, with the proceeds going to Bethesda Project, which serves people experiencing homelessness in Philadelphia and is family with those who have none.

Villa Joseph Marie advances through girls’ soccer postseason

The Bucks County Catholic girls' academy advanced to the championship game of District 1 Class AAA play, dropping a 3-0 decision to Radnor High before moving on to the PIAA state soccer tournament.

Students show power of prayers for others

Prayers Unite the World marked its fifth year of bringing people together through prayer, as Bishop Michael Fitzgerald heard about experiences of global intercessory prayer from three Archbishop Ryan High School students.

Speaker series invites young adults to discover a ‘newfound love for St. Joseph’

The archdiocesan Office for Ministry with Young Adults will kick off a four-week "Consecration to St. Joseph" with a Nov. 10 holy hour and talk focusing on the saint as a "powerful role model."

South Philly parish celebrates ‘glorious past, brilliant future’

Located in the heart of Grays Ferry, St. Gabriel Parish recently marked its 125th year, while looking forward to decades more of ministry to the "spiritually hungry."

Disability care community celebrates ‘what love looks like’

Persons with intellectual disabilities and their caretakers reflect Christ's kindness and self-sacrifice, said Archbishop Nelson Pérez during an Oct. 25 Mass for the archdiocesan Communities of Don Guanella and Divine Providence.

‘History is going to hold us to account,’ says marcher at climate protest

During the U.N.'s COP26 conference, thousands of Catholics took to the streets of the United Kingdom, among 100,000 demonstrators supporting action to halt climate change and reverse ecological degradation.

65 Catholic grade schools honored for excellence

The archdiocesan Office of Catholic Education recognized Catholic parish and regional schools as this year’s Archdiocesan Schools of Distinguished Instruction in two categories: growth and exceeding potential.

Catholic school student places third in city-wide art contest

Elodie Breslin, a student of Our Mother of Consolation School in Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill section, placed third in a contest to redesign the “I Voted” stickers that voters in the city receive at the polls on Election Day.

At 140th anniversary, Trenton Diocese begins synodal journey

Bishop David M. O'Connell of Trenton invited Catholics to join Pope Francis in "walking the same road together" to help discern the church's role in the world. The diocese began the local phase of a global process of listening.