Commentaries
Recovery is the Journey, God is the Guide
Director of Catholic Social Services Community-Based and Housing and Homeless Services Division Amy Stoner explains that through the grace of God, one can make progress in their recovery.
A Back-to-School Reminder for Protecting Our Most Precious Gift
The director of the archdiocesan Office for Child and Youth Protection offers three ways everyone can share in the sacred duty to safeguard young people as they begin a new school year.
Embracing Stewardship and Faith During National Make-A-Will Month
August is National Make-A-Will Month, an opportunity to contemplate God's blessings and how we can utilize them to strengthen our faith, family, and financial stability, writes Garett Owen of the Catholic Foundation of Greater Philadelphia.
What Love Looks Like: Summer Meals Program Meets Harsh Reality of Childhood Hunger
Archdiocesan Nutritional Development Services works so that young people have food in the summer. NDS’ David Stier knows that some kids still go hungry despite these herculean efforts, an injustice that should move everyone to action.
Our Friend, the Chef, Brings Out the Best in Us
God brings people into our lives for a greater purpose, and sometimes, its to show us the goodness inside ourselves, writes Patrick Walsh, Director of Programs at Catholic Social Services’ Martha’s Choice Marketplace & Community Farm.
The Joys of Womanhood: Sacred, Beloved, and Beautiful
Join over 1,200 Catholic women from the greater Philadelphia area for a day of fun, friendship, faith formation, and prayer Saturday, Oct. 19 at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Doylestown.
Catholics Put ‘Laudato Si’ into Action by Lobbying for Environmental Justice
Barbara Sheehan, a member Our Mother of Consolation Parish's Laudato Si’ Circle, reflects on a recent day of lobbying in Harrisburg working for environmental justice.
Martha’s Community Farm: Finding God in the Dirt
Soil offers us perhaps, the most perfect analogy for our pursuit of communion with God and neighbor, says Patrick Walsh, Director of Programs at Martha’s Choice Marketplace and Community Farm and a participating institution with EcoPhilly.
New Encounters Ministry Helps Parishes Respond to Archbishop’s Pastoral Letter on Racism
Since launching in 2020, New Encounters: Catholics Confronting Racism has been regularly active throughout the archdiocese.
Jubilee Celebration: Fr. Rayford Emmons – 50 Years as a Philly Priest!
Fr. Rayford Emmons, Parochial Vicar of Holy Cross Parish in Mt. Airy, is celebrating 50 years as the first Black Catholic ordained priest ordained for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.