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Tell a friend about the stories you follow from this newsletter, vol. 5, no. 6, to our newly enhanced website offering a better experience for smartphone and tablet users. Stay informed and inspired with Catholic news and information updated every day on CatholicPhilly.com.
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We live in a time when fundamental elements of human identity -- gender and sexuality -- are reimagined, writes Archbishop Charles Chaput. A new report restores some badly needed clarity, scientific substance and prudence to our discussions.
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Felix Alberto came from a dysfunctional family and a boyhood in which he thought it to be better dead than alive. After years of delinquency he turned his life around with help from staff at a Catholic program for troubled boys.
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This year St. Charles Seminary will be home to 160 seminarians, with 67 studying for the Philadelphia Archdiocese, 18 of which are new arrivals. Enrollment at the seminary is up 33 percent from two years ago.
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SS. Simon and Jude Parish hosted about 150 people from the parish and surrounding area for a day with Mass, presentations, discussions and prayers honoring Mary, the model for discipleship today.
See more Local News.
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Find events from spiritual devotions to community festivals coming up soon in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in our Calendar of Events.
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Two sisters of the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate will visit every home in Sacred Heart Parish starting Sept. 6. The sisters will reach out to the entire Christian community and the unchurched.
See more People and Events.
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Worshipers in the Haitian Creole language worshiped God in the Mass Sunday evening, Aug. 7 with a Haitian religious-order priest. See our photos representing one of many ethnic communities in the archdiocese.
See more Photo Features.
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They choose nearness over other considerations, including the quality of the homilies, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
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Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, both 68, were found stabbed to death Aug. 25 in their home. They spent years caring for poor people as nurse practitioners in central Mississippi.
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Civil authorities reported that at least 13 people died in the floods and that about 60,000 homes were damaged, although a Baton Rouge economic development group put the number of damaged houses at 110,000.
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Any way it's examined, analysts say the Catholic vote -- about 22 percent of the electorate -- is not as monolithic as it once was.
See more National News.
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Hearing the mayor of Amatrice in central Italy say his town no longer exists and knowing there were children who died Aug. 24 in the earthquakes that struck the region, Pope Francis turned his weekly general audience into a prayer service.
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When nonviolence is the basic approach of political decisions and public policy, it promotes the restoration and consolidation of peace, the Vatican said.
See more World News.
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Too many seminaries teach students a rigid list of rules that make it difficult or impossible for them as priests to respond to the real-life situation of those who come to them seeking guidance, Pope Francis said.
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Contented Catholics seem not to be notice that the quality of Catholic service is declining and the level of commitment to Catholic institutions needs to become fired up, writes Jesuit Father William Byron.
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Effie Caldarola writes that when confronted with human needs before us, empathy demands not that we turn away and say, "I've got things to do," but to stay and ask, "What can I do?"
See more in our Commentaries section.
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Father Ken Doyle explains to a person reading the Bible that people's understanding of God has changed with the times and cultures in which they lived. Drawing a division of God from the Bible is simplistic and inaccurate.
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Freedom through humility, as taught by Jesus in this Sunday’s Gospel, allows us to love better, explains Msgr. Joseph Prior. In this way "taking the lowest seat" is the path to greater love.
See more in our Spirituality section.
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Can good ends ever justify moral or criminal wrongdoing? That's the gist of this gritty, sober film that sets an issue treated by St. Paul in a modern West Texas community, pitting good farmers against bad bankers.
Also see a review of the comic-yet-serious business of war profiteering in "War Dogs."
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A luminescent and unflinching film set in Poland at the end of World War II tells how the degradation to which an order of nuns has been subjected has crushed their faith or left them in fear. The ending is uplifting, if not happy.
See more in Culture.
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