On the Feast of St. Peter Claver over 200 people gathered at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul for a Mass honoring Fr. Rayford E. Emmons, the first African American ordained Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Julia Osęka has been selected by Pope Francis as one of 10 voting delegates from North America to the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome.