Like many of you, I have been following the heartbreaking local news this morning about a devastating house fire in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia that claimed more than a dozen lives.

Nutritional Development Services has provided food and food-related resources to those in need throughout the Greater Philadelphia region for nearly half a century.

WASHINGTON—As another year concludes without enactment of meaningful immigration reform, Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, auxiliary bishop of Washington and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Migration, issued the following statement:

Nutritional Development Services has provided food and food-related resources to those in need throughout the Greater Philadelphia region for nearly half a century.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today they will eliminate the safety requirement of in-person dispensing in the Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for the chemical abortion drug mifepristone.

Schedule of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Masses

Reverend G. Dennis Gill, Rector and Pastor of the Cathedral Basilica of the Saints Peter and Paul and Director for the Office for Divine Worship for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, will be the celebrant and homilist for the Memorial Mass marking the one month anniversary of the death of Sister Maureen Lawrence McDermott, I.H.M. Members […]

The gifts will be distributed to children attending Catholic Social Services’ 66th annual Archbishop’s Benefit for Children Christmas Party.  Catholic high schools throughout the five-county region will donate and wrap presents for children and youth served by Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (CSS). The gifts will be distributed during CSS’ 66th annual […]

Children will enjoy a fun-filled and entertaining afternoon that showcases the magic of Christmas in a tradition tracing back to Cardinal John O’Hara in the 1950’s.

«Después de la devastación causada por los recientes tornados que arrasaron el sur y el medio oeste, muchos de nuestros hermanos y hermanas están de luto por la pérdida de sus seres queridos y luchando con enormes dificultades. En nombre del clero, religiosos y fieles laicos de la Arquidiócesis de Filadelfia, pido  solidaridad con los […]