Thanks to a generous donation from the Philadelphia Union Professional Soccer Team, 12 youth residents from the Blessed Oscar Romero House will attend a professional soccer game later this month.

We live in an anxious time, and while the mission of the Church finally depends on God, it also depends on us — bishops, clergy, religious and laypeople alike – and how courageously we live our faith; how deeply we believe; and how much apostolic zeal we show to an unbelieving world that urgently needs Jesus Christ. 

Each day, approximately 100 school lunch managers help Nutritional Development Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia provide healthy, nourishing meals to nearly 30,000 students.

The faithful of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia are invited to honor the Blessed Mother at the Fourth Annual Archdiocesan May Procession.

Our Lady Help of Christians Church will no longer serve as a worship site of  Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish and will close as a Roman Catholic Church. Contextual Background In July 2016, Our Lady Help of Christians Parish merged with Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, both located in Northeast Philadelphia, […]

The novel is massive, turgid, rambling, and in the end, mind-numbing.  Both works imagine a future world-war that drags on catastrophically for decades, decimates the population, unleashes a terrifying plague, and results in the collapse of civilization and the rise of petty warlords. 

Twenty African-American students from eleven Catholic high schools received the 2017-2018 Monsignor John T. Mitchell Memorial Scholarship. Those scholarship awards total over $16,000.

The John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School Out-of-School Program (OST) was one of four OST Programs located throughout the Philadelphia region selected as a Teen Reading Lounge (TRL) pilot site by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC) for the 2017-2018 academic year. Hallahan OST is a ministry of Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of […]

Nutritional Development Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has teamed up with The Philadelphia Flyers’ Community Relations Department to celebrate “Every Kid Healthy Week” at Saint Helena Incarnation School.

The Mass is celebrated to pray for married couples in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.