This campaign aims to provide local children and youth in need with backpacks and school supplies for the start of the new academic year.

Senior residents from Catholic Housing and Community Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s (CHCS) Saint John Neumann Place II (SJNPII) recently received a boost thanks to new 80-square-foot community garden.

Nativity B.V.M. Place, an affordable housing development for seniors in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia, operated by Catholic Housing and Community Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (CHCS) will host a health and wellness fair for all senior residents.

In an effort to create awareness about Heed the Call and vocations to the Priesthood, seminarians from Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary have launched Biking for Vocations. Heed the Call is the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Office for Vocations to the Diocesan Priesthood.

Exactly 20 years ago, in U.S. Senate testimony just weeks after the Columbine High School massacre, I offered these thoughts:

More than half of surveyed Americans now support the death penalty for murder and similar crimes.  This is a modest increase from an all-time low recorded in 2016.  But numbers alone don’t determine the moral content of actions by individuals or governments.  Right and wrong exist whether popular opinion approves or not. In late July […]

Catholic Housing and Community Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (CHCS) will distribute nearly 3,000 Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) produce vouchers to income eligible seniors throughout the City of Philadelphia.