Prayer, conversion, good works needed to win ‘freedom for the pre-born’
Participants stand before a downtown Philadelphia Planned Parenthood clinic during a July 17 rally and prayer vigil sponsored by the Pro-Life Union of Greater Philadelphia.
By Gina Christian • Posted July 20, 2021
Ending abortion will require “prayer, personal conversion and good works,” along with a renewed focus on freedom and the sacrifice it entails, say area pro-life leaders.
Some 200 attendees gathered July 17 for the Pro-Life Union of Greater Philadelphia’s “Freedom for the Pre-Born” rally, which began with Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul.
In his homily, celebrant and Cathedral rector Father Dennis Gill described abortion as “the greatest evil in our day and in any day,” since it represents “a total denial of who God is and what he has done for us in making us, and in giving us the responsibility we have over life.”
Little Flower H.S. students find God on TikTok
A screenshot shows a frame from a recent TikTok video created by a Little Flower Catholic High School student to illustrate the Genesis creation narrative. Theology instructor Angelica Corridoni encourages her students to explore Scriptures through the use of social media. (TikTok/Courtesy of Angelica Corridoni)
By Gina Christian • Posted March 10, 2021
An archdiocesan high school teacher is using a teen-oriented social media platform to help her students understand Scripture, and to express the word of God in their own language.
“I meet my students where they’re at,” said Angelica Corridoni, a member of the theology faculty at Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls in Philadelphia.
New commission invites personal encounter in work of racial healing
After prayer for healing and kneeling in silence for George Floyd at an event in Philadelphia June 9, 2020, Tori Reid from Christlike Church is the first young person of the group to offer hugs to Philadelphia police officers. (Photo by Sarah Webb)
By Matthew Gambino • Posted January 22, 2021
Last year as marches for racial justice proliferated across the United States in the wake of the killing of Black people – especially of George Floyd – by police, Catholics joined many other people of good will to address the injustice and seek racial healing.
The ongoing work “to build a beloved community,” in the words of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., took a new step this week in the form of the Commission on Racial Healing in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, which Archbishop Nelson Perez announced Jan. 18, King’s birthday.
It is certainly not something youâd find in a hymnal at a Catholic church.
Still, that was the message from The Archdiocese of Detroit on Wednesday when it announced the final parish groupings for Families of Parishes.
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Over the next year-and-a-half, all parishes in the Archdiocese will join together into groups that will work together, sharing resources and talents, to further advance the shared mission of the local church.
The Archdiocese plans to form 51 families of parishes, each consisting of three to eight churches and multiple priests. Most within each family border at least one other member parish.