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Live Nativity brings Christmas to Northeast Phila. street
Blessed Trinity Regional Catholic School and St. Timothy Parish recreated Bethlehem on a bustling thoroughfare Dec. 11, connecting the community to Scripture "in a real and beautiful way."
Getting COVID-19 vaccine is ‘act of charity’ for common good, bishops say
The "gravity" of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and "the lack of alternative vaccines" are reasons to accept the approved vaccines, the chairmen of the U.S. bishops' doctrine and pro-life committees said. Getting vaccinated is part of Catholics' moral responsibility.
New directives aid celebration of Christmas at home or in church
Houses of worship are exempt from new restrictions on social gatherings in Pennsylvania, but the Philadelphia Archdiocese is preparing Catholics to celebrate the birth of Jesus in several ways this year.
Argentina’s lower house votes to allow abortion
Lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies approved a bill to decriminalize abortion during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy Dec. 11, despite vocal opposition from the country's Catholic bishops.
Argentine bishops urge lawmakers to reflect ahead of abortion debate
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more than 40,000 lives in Argentina, and 50% live in poverty, as lawmakers "are thinking with selfishness of eliminating children" by legalizing abortion.
Mass offered for healing of Native Americans hurt by ‘historical trauma’
A priest who leads efforts to serve Native Americans called for a new and inculturated evangelization to counter their "grim circumstances" today, stemming from 150 years of genocidal policies and racism.
Biden’s HHS pick praised for backing ACA, criticized on abortion
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, tapped to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has stirred the partisan fires President-elect Joe Biden says he hopes to quell.
#iGiveCatholic Giving Day breaks record on fundraising
The sixth annual nationwide Catholic fundraising day Dec. 1 raised nearly $13 million from more than 48,000 donors to meet needs that "are especially acute during this time of global suffering."
Students with visual impairments ‘see in different way,’ says archbishop
During a Dec. 9 visit, Archbishop Nelson Pérez told students of the archdiocesan St. Lucy Day School for Children with Visual Impairments they have gifts to discern what others can't.
St. Charles Seminary agrees on relocation plan to Gwynedd Mercy University
The first steps have been taken toward relocating the seminary’s programs on a 15-acre tract of the university’s Lower Gwynedd, Montgomery County campus. The seminary's 75-acre Wynnewood campus was sold last year.