Press Releases
USCCB: President And Vice President Of The U.S. Conference Of Catholic Bishops Stand In Defense Of All Faiths In Response To Executive Order On Refugees
January 30th, 2017USCCB: USCCB Committee On Migration Chair Strongly Opposes Executive Order Because It Harms Vulnerable Refugee And Immigrant Families
January 30th, 2017Archdiocese of Philadelphia Publishes Audited Financial Statements For Additional Entities For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2016
January 27th, 2017In early November 2016, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia published audited financial statements for The Office for Financial Services, its Pastoral Center entity, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016.
Archbishop Chaput To Celebrate Solemn Mass Of Consecration To The Life Of Virginity
January 27th, 2017Jennifer Lynn Settle will be consecrated as a bride of our Lord Jesus Christ
Archbishop Chaput’s Weekly Column: The March For Life In Year 44
January 27th, 2017As thousands of Catholics and other prolife persons gather in Washington on January 27 and walk together in the annual March for Life, the time has never been better, nor the need more urgent, to pray for our country, to pray for the end of abortion, and to pray for a conversion in the hearts our leaders.
Solemn Funeral Mass For Most Reverend Martin N. Lohmuller
January 27th, 2017The Solemn Funeral Mass for Most Reverend Martin N. Lohmuller, Retired Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia and Titular Bishop of Ramsbury, will take place in the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul on Wednesday, February 1, 2017.
Archdiocese Of Philadelphia To Hold “Luminaires For Life” Observance To Remember The Millions Of Lives Lost To Abortion
January 26th, 2017In support of the 44th Annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., staff from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and students from John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls’ High School will light nearly two hundred luminaires to remember the millions of lives lost to abortion.
MOST REVEREND MARTIN N. LOHMULLER, RETIRED AUXILIARY BISHOP OF PHILADELPHIA, DIES AT AGE 97
January 25th, 2017Most Reverend Martin N. Lohmuller, retired Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia and Titular Bishop of Ramsbury, died on the afternoon of Tuesday, January 24th at the age of 97. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living Roman Catholic bishop in the United States of America.