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Local Catholic Leaders Discuss Urgency of Better Care for Earth

An annual conference hosted by EcoPhilly at Villanova University May 9 showcased how individuals, parishes, and dioceses can ...
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Doylestown Man Finally Will Serve People He Loves as a Priest

In college Deacon Charles Cappelli wondered if he could be a priest to bring Christ in the Eucharist to his friends. After ...
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Sent With Mother’s Love From Nigeria, Called by God to Priesthood

When Deacon Jude Opara is ordained a priest for Philadelphia May 16 by Archbishop Pérez, he will have his mother’s image and ...
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Hope Kept Alive Deacon Declan Cole’s Boyhood Promise to Become a Priest

Doubts and other life options put the priestly vocation in question for the young Bucks County man, but a reliance on hope in ...
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Stranger’s Comment Cements a Young Man’s Path to the Priesthood

You’re going to be a priest one day,” a stranger told young Griffen Schlaepfer years ago. That insight will come to pass as ...