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Fed director discusses wealth gap between black, white households
La Salle University will present a Feb. 6 lecture featuring Ray Boshara of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, who will join several other panelists in exploring the connections between race and wealth inequity.
‘Jesus was like this’ depicts Christ in modern Philadelphia
St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Philadelphia will host a Feb. 17 performance of the new musical by Barbara Purnell Boyle, which seeks to entertain, inspire and evangelize.
Longtime teacher in Montessori method dies at age 85
Sister Yolanda Amoroso of the Religious Teachers Filippini entered the order in 1948 and served as a primary-school teacher in seven dioceses and archdioceses, including Philadelphia.
U.S. priest laicized for child abuse in East Timor; police investigate
After accusations of sex abuse, the Vatican has laicized American Richard Daschbach, a former Divine Word missionary who ran orphanages in East Timor for 27 years.
Deacon Richard Coyne of Holy Cross Parish dies at 88
The permanent deacon was ordained by Cardinal Krol in 1986 and served at his parish in the city's Mount Airy section as his only assignment before retiring in 2010.
Immigrants seen as making their mark in their new homes
An immigrant-dominated panel Feb. 3 at the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington showed immigrants seizing educational and professional opportunities that they would have had little hope of finding in their home countries.
Community land trusts a possible answer for escalating housing costs
Based on a concept developed by Mahatma Gandhi in India, these kinds of land trusts were originally designed to allow black farmers to pool their resources to own the land they farmed rather than work as sharecroppers.
Prominent Catholic doctor: U.K. group conducting sham poll on euthanasia
Dr. Dermot Kearney, CMA president, said the Royal College of Physicians was guilty of "gerrymandering" and of organizing a "sham" survey so it could ditch its traditional opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide.
To end racism tomorrow, confront the past today, panelist says
The panel was an outgrowth of the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter against racism issued in November, "Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love."
Vatican’s China policy not a competition between two sides, says official
The Catholic Church's process of reconciliation and rapprochement in China is not a "competition or who is right, but of brothers and sisters in the faith, who all find themselves in a common house," said Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.