Photo features
Mayor Nutter visits West Catholic Prep, honors school’s new student leaders
West Catholic Preparatory High School at 4501 Chestnut St. hosted The Honorable Michael A. Nutter, Mayor of Philadelphia, during a student leadership assembly on Thursday, October 3, 2013. The mayor addressed the student body on the topic of leadership and help hand out pins to West Catholic’s newly installed student leaders after they maid their pledge to leadership.
St. Joseph’s Prep tops rival Roman Catholic in Catholic League play
St. Joseph’s Prep breezed past rival Roman Catholic, 42-7, in Class AAAA Catholic League football action Sept. 28 at Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School.
Pope Francis in Sardinia
Pope Francis meets with the poor and prisoners in the cathedral in Cagliari, Sardinia
St. Andrew School welcomes bishop for blessing
Bishop Daniel Thomas blessed the students of St. Andrew School, Drexel Hill, and dedicated two renovated school buildings Sept. 11. (Photos by Steve Litz)
Religious men and women celebrate 14,600 years of consecrated life
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput celebrated this year's Annual Religious Jubilarian Mass on Sunday, Sept. 8 at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. The Mass honors religious priests, sisters and brothers celebrating milestone anniversaries of 25 years or more. Of this year’s 253 jubilarians, 100 attended the Mass with their guests.
Students head back to school for the 2013-2014 school year
The 2013-2014 school year began in many ways throughout the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The year started off with Mass at Cardinal John Foley Regional School in Havertown and St. Charles Seminary in Wynnewood. At St. Hubert Catholic High School for Girls, Philadelphia, administrators were joined by officials from the Office of Catholic Education and Holy Family University to sign an agreement that entered both schools into a collaborative educational partnership.
First-day blessing at St. Katherine Day School
Bishop Daniel E. Thomas offered a classroom blessing to students and staff for the start of the 2013-2014 school year at St. Katherine Day School in Wynnewood, Montgomery County. The special education school of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia educates mentally and physically challenged and developmentally delayed students ages 4 ½ to 21. (Photos by Sarah Webb)
St. Patrick’s Cathedral restoration
Tall metal scaffolding not only fills but surrounds New York's famed St. Patrick's Cathedral. What looks to the uninitiated like a zealous cleaning job is actually a painstaking $177 million restoration.
It’s moving in day for new men at St. Charles Seminary
The College and Theology Division seminarians of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary returned to campus to mark the start of the academic year on Tuesday, Aug. 20 beginning with registration and moving-in to the dorms. This fall, over 40 new men will be entering seminary for the first time from approximately nine dioceses and religious orders, including approximately eight men from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Haiti photo gallery
Try to imagine what it would be like to be a member of one of 57 families living in shacks on a narrow, isolated beach, literally cut off from civilization. Welcome to St. Mary Fishing Village, located on the Island of Gonave off the coast of Haiti. Gonave is relatively large, about 283 square miles, but the terrain is harsh.