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Rome mayor says Caritas will still get Trevi Fountain coins
After weeks of confusion and consternation, Rome's mayor told the Vatican newspaper that Rome Caritas would benefit not only from the coins tourists throw in the Trevi Fountain, but from coins tossed in any of the city's historic water features.
St. Patrick’s Day Dinner and Dance at St. Francis Xavier Parish
Come all ye lads and lassies to the annual St. Patrick's Day Dinner and Dance. Sean Fleming will provide music once again and a surprise visit from the Irish School of Dancing.
Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Candlemas (High Mass)
High Mass with the blessing of Candles starting at 9 am.
Shadow Day
Your child is invited to spend the day with us on Monday, January 21st at 8:30am. They will get to experience a "day in the life" of one of our students.
Local World Youth Day in Philadelphia
Local World Youth Day Philadelphia will be a spiritually uplifting event for young adults 18-35. This event will consist of time for Mass, prayer, Adoration, social fellowship and time for personal reflection.
Faith is passed on at home, pope tells parents at baptism
Although children learn the tenets of the Catholic faith in catechism class, it is first transmitted in the home "because faith always must be transmitted in dialect: the dialect of the family, the dialect of the home, in the atmosphere of the home," he said.
Shutdown won’t deter crowds from marching for life in nation’s capital
Neither snow nor sleet -- nor partial government shutdown -- will keep pro-lifers away from the nation's capital for the March for Life Jan. 18.
Despite high turnover, number of Catholics little changed in Congress
The number of Catholics in the House, at 32.5 percent, is more than half again their representation in the U.S. population, which the Pew Research Center pegs at 21 percent.
Pro-lifers: N.Y. abortion bill could one day make being pro-life ‘a crime’
The measure will expand access to abortion in the state, despite being promoted as simply codifying Roe v. Wade. It not only increases access to abortion across the board, including late-term abortions, but also goes beyond Roe, which left some limits in place.
As March for Life nears, Philadelphians plan to meet up
The 46th annual witness to the sanctity of life will draw thousands of people to Washington on Jan. 18. It can be hard for folks from the archdiocese to rally together, so a new meeting place has been arranged.