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Man with Down syndrome promotes jobs for ‘friends like me’
Mark Hublar, 56, has a long list of life achievements, thanks to his family's loving support. "I want to see my people go into communities and get real jobs with real pay, equal pay," he said.
Risen Christ offers hope to people, Cardinal Gregory says at Easter Mass
Easter with its message that Christ is risen and death has been defeated, "brings together many people who long to change their own sorrows to joy, their own doubts into hope and their own fears into faith."
Church divisions stem from misunderstanding ‘reform,’ Cardinal Parolin says
Three days after the papal preacher called on Catholics to repent for dividing the church, the Vatican secretary of state said the divisions are real and do "a lot of damage to the church."
Pope asks Filipinos to celebrate the gift of faith and pass it on
On the 500th anniversary of Christianity in their country, Pope Francis thanked Filipino Catholics for their "deep sense of family, community and fraternity that keeps you firm in faith, joyful in hope and attentive in charity."
London police halt Good Friday service over COVID protocols
Police halted an Adoration of the Cross service and ordered 130 worshippers to go home, saying the congregation size exceeded pandemic regulations. A priest complained officers had "brutally exceeded their powers."
Archdiocesan employee honored for living out Franciscan spirituality
Neumann University recently bestowed its "Spirit of St. Francis and Clare of Assisi" award on Catholic Social Services staffer Kevin Barr, who says "God flows through life's cracks."
Catholic school alums raise thousands to fight leukemia
Three graduates of archdiocesan elementary schools put their education -- and painful experience -- at the service of others, collecting more than $150,000 to battle deadly blood cancers.
Triduum a time of ‘beautiful spiritual intensity,’ says archbishop
From the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday to the evening of Easter Sunday, faithful are immersed in "the eruption of grace" that flowed from Christ's saving act of love, said Archbishop Nelson Pérez.
Christ’s victory over death proclaims a second chance for all, pope says
The Easter liturgies assure people that "it is always possible to begin anew, because there is a new life that God can awaken in us in spite of all our failures," Pope Francis said April 3 during the Easter Vigil Mass in Rome.
Join Archbishop Perez virtually for Easter Sunday Mass
Watch the Mass of Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Sunday at 11 a.m. livestreamed from the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, with Archbishop Nelson Perez as celebrant and homilist.