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Julio Briones grew up going to Mass. He was baptized, took communion and went through confirmation. He ended up serving 12 years in priso ...

When NewsWorks last saw Soxx, she was outside of the East Kensington house of artist Jenny Drumgoole, who created the colorful c ...

Thirty-six years after ...

Philadelphians know by now that September 26 is the day Pope Francis touches down in the city for the World Meeting of Families’ sl ...

Blogger Rocco Palmo regularly breaks news on the Vatican from his home in Philadel ...

Forgive Boris Kindij for not seeming all that intimidated by an independent mayoral run that features little to very, very little name re ...

A coalition of Catholic advocates for victims of clergy abuse wants the Vatican to investigate former Philadelphia Archbishop Cardinal Ju ...

Francesca Fiore and her fiancé, Matt Kosinsky, were being so good. They started making wedding plans 18 months in advance. Last year, th ...

Camden is making 8,500 parking spots on the Delaware River waterfront available for the private vehicles of papal pilgrims. That space ha ...

With so much attention on the issue of same-sex marriage — and the continuing focus on Kim Davis — there are countless issues and per ...

In front of the York County Prison early Tuesday morning, 100 immigrant women and their supporters gathered to kick off a weeklong march ...

What would you cook up if you had the chance to serve dinner to Pope Francis? We asked some of the city’s top chefs to weigh in. He ...

Working with LGBT youth, I witness them struggle to cope with abusive partners daily. The thing I hear over and over is: "I want to leave him, but I have nowhere else to go."

When Marco Federico talks about his work poking around historical burial grounds and buildings — of which Philadelphia has an abundance ...

It is still legal to discriminate in most states based on sexual orientation and gender identity. For aging transgender people, even more obstacles exist.