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Faith & Religion

Faith & Religion Food & Dining 

St. Nick’s Italian Festival returns October 9 [new date]

October 1, 2022October 2, 2022 Joseph Myers Italian Festival, St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church min read

The Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Italian Festival is back for the first time since 2019. After a two-year hiatus, the Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Italian Festival returns to Ninth Street between Moore and Morris Streets on Sunday, October 9. [NOTE:

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Faith & Religion Marconi 

St. Richard of Chichester welcomes Father Matthew Brody

March 21, 2022 Joseph Myers Fr. Matthew Brody, St. Richard of Chichester Parish min read

The Marconi-based Catholic church’s new parochial administrator has Philly roots. During youthful considerations of what life might yield for him, Matthew Brody entertained the thought of becoming a doctor, a vocation that would have found him bettering bodies. Straight out

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Bella Vista Faith & Religion 

Positive signs of change for an historic church

July 13, 2021July 13, 2021 Joseph Myers Bella Vista, Church of the Crucifixion min read

The Church of the Crucifixion’s energetic new vicar recently celebrated the church’s reopening and a street renaming with her flock. Shortly after her October 10, 2020 ordination as a priest, Mother Jessie Alejandro learned she would head the Church of

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All over South Philly Faith & Religion 

Archdiocese of Philadelphia to resume celebration of public masses

June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 Joseph Myers Archdioese of Philadelphia, COVID-19 min read

The move comes due to its five-county area’s move into Governor Wolf’s ‘Yellow Phase’ in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. The last 12 weeks have proven somber occasions for believers within the five-county Archdiocese of Philadelphia, as stay-at-home orders

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Civic & Community Faith & Religion Passyunk Square 

A Virtual Feast Day for St. Rita

May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 Joseph Myers COVID-19, National Shrine of Saint Rita of Cascia, Nelson Perez min read

The National Shrine of Saint Rita of Cascia is honoring its namesake with a virtual novena and Feast Day celebration. In his role as shrine director, Jonathan Jerome lauds the National Shrine of Saint Rita of Cascia, 1166 S. Broad

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