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Hiking to Heal: Recovering Joy
In this hiking/walking retreat at the Daylesford Abbey, we warmly welcome you, wherever you are on your faith journey, to join us for a time of respite in God’s natural creation.
Hiking to Heal — Happiness: A Way of Life
Wherever you are on your faith journey, all are welcome for a hiking/walking retreat Feb. 7 at Daylesford Abbey and a time of respite in God’s natural creation.
Northeast Philly parish’s 5K race draws 400 to the finish line
St. Anselm Parish's eighth 19154 5K race on Feb. 1 through the city's Parkwood section united parishioners and the community while raising funds for parish youth group events.
Spotlight on Local History: Commodore Barry and the Irish in Philadelphia
John Kelly of the National Park Service will explore the life and legacy of Commodore John Barry, his contributions to American freedom and the Irish American community that he inhabited and helped to shape.
Young adults host Overcoming the World retreat in Malvern
You are invited to step away from the world Feb. 7-8 and spend some very special time with Jesus and other young adults who are seeking a relationship with him.
Mary Higgins Clark had enduring bond with worldwide readership
The best-selling author and faithful parishioner known as the "queen of suspense" to her millions of readers, died of natural causes in Naples, Florida, Jan. 31. She was 92.
Evening celebrates feast day of St. Katharine Drexel
The Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul welcomes all for an Evening of Song and Prayer in celebration of St. Katharine Drexel.
Victim-survivor says ‘ripple effects’ of clergy sex abuse ‘go on and on’
More than 60 survivors of abuse in Minnesota met with church officials, an archbishop and civil county officials at a conference for listening to people describe the hurt, and the healing, that lasts for years.
After struggle to cope, abuse survivor finds ‘healing in heart of church’
A Minnesota woman confided her childhood abuse to a priest and then was abused again, but through years of speaking with pastors and a bishop, she has returned to Mass and the sacraments regularly.
Devotion to Holy Face of Jesus rising on home visits, phone app
The image is "not the happy thumbs-up Jesus," but Ian Snyder of Nebraska felt drawn to it, and he and his wife hosted it and prayed a nine-day novena to consecrate their home and family.