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With 8 kids, new deacon knows all about life balance
Mark Nowakowski, who will be ordained June 13, juggled his work, many parish activities and raising a large family as he prepared to serve the church as a deacon.
Meet the 13 men to be ordained deacons June 13 at cathedral
Archbishop Nelson Perez will ordain transitional and permanent deacons in a Mass Saturday morning. Due to the pandemic, the ordinations were delayed and combined in a single ceremony this year.
Rosary walk in city brings prayer, healing to troubled streets
Some 200 area faithful joined Archbishop Perez and Archbishop Borys Gudziak in a June 7 procession through downtown Philadelphia, invoking Mary's intercession for peace.
Tanzanian Catholic diocese works to protect girls from abuse
A diocesan program cares for 70 street children, those escaping domestic violence, girls fleeing female circumcision and those escaping from child marriages as young as 8.
Groups urge Supreme Court to protect faith-based foster care
Catholic and 30 other religious groups plus others urged the court to allow Philadelphia's Catholic Social Services to offer foster care. The city stopped referring to CSS in 2018.
More Catholics joining in ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests
The space near the White House was filled June 8 with hundreds of laity, women and men religious and clergy from the Washington Archdiocese gathering in the Catholic-centered protest.
Prayer vigils, protests, bishops’ homilies echo call for racial justice
Bishops across the country prayed the deep sin of racism can be overcome and invited Americans to remember that each person is a unique creation of God.
Trinity a source of healing amid COVID, racism, says Archbishop Perez
At his first public Masses in more than 11 weeks, Archbishop Nelson Perez said "God in his innermost being is a family" who heals the wounds of disaster and division.
Caravan of neighborhood’s cars toasts woman on 100th birthday
Virginia resident Nancy Millard enjoyed the excitement as cars, police and fire vehicles rolled slowly by her home with horns blaring as she celebrated her centennial.
Portland archbishop urges listening, action on racial injustice
Archbishop Alexander Sample decried those who have made the killing of George Floyd a point of political wrangling: "I am sick of the us-against-them mentality."