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How to bake altar bread, 100,000 at a time

Watch a video of the Poor Clare sisters preparing Communion hosts for the papal Mass on the parkway this Sunday.

Celebrating persons with disabilities, in prayer

See scenes from the monthly Mass for persons with disabilities and their loved ones and caregivers on Sunday, Sept. 6 at St. John Chrysostom Church in Wallingford.

In fine, full voice at St. Charles Seminary

Watch a video of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary's choir under the direction of Michael Stairs, artist in residence, and Rudolph Lucente, director of sacred music.

Immigration the topic of conference in Phila.

Watch a video of a panel discussion on immigration Sept. 1 at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center.

Mary, undoer of the knots we tie in life

A grotto dedicated to prayers to Mary, the "Undoer of Knots," was unveiled at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. Watch our video.

Julian Bond, 75, dies; was leading figure in civil rights movement

Julian Bond, a leading figure in the civil rights movement and the first African-American in Georgia's Legislature, died Aug. 16 in a hospital in Walton Beach, Florida, of complications from vascular disease. He was 75.

The great and the small: Film’s tiniest hero has big fun

Better think twice before squashing that insect invader at your summer picnic -- it could be "Ant-Man," the diminutive Marvel Comics superhero.

No easy moral resolution to Vergara-Loeb dispute over frozen embryos

Are frozen embryos human beings worthy of dignity and respect or are they property subject to contractual obligations?

Readings of the holy Mass – The Resurrection of the Lord

Read or listen to the readings before Mass with the resources below from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, using the New American Bible, Revised Edition. The Resurrection of the Lord: The Mass of Easter Day See the Mass readings for Sunday, April 5, 2015. Read Msgr. Joseph Prior’s commentary on the readings for this Sunday’s Mass. See the readings for […]

Hear the church’s newest hymn

Watch a video of members of the Choir of the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul singing "Sound the Holy Bell of Freedom" -- the official hymn for the 2015 World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.