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During the recent Jewish high holy days, I was able to score a few minutes with my friend and neighbor, Rabbi Zalman Wircberg, the co-dir ...

In all of the frenzy surrounding last weekend’s papal visit, you may have forgotten there’s a mayor’s race going on in ...

When the leader of the global Roman Catholic Church plans a trip, a heavy security blanket is expected. But did Philadelphia’ ...

A report by the Philadelphia City Controller’s office finds many downtown business didn’t do so well with the papal visit. ...

The new general manager of SEPTA is pleased with the transit agency’s work  in transporting thousands of papal pilgrims to the ...

If you were at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for the papal Mass Sunday, chances are you were deploying your mobile phone.  One provi ...

Officials are still calculating the total cost of the pontiff’s visit — but many Philadelphia suburbs have tallied up tens of ...

Marriage has been important for LGBT communities, but there are perhaps more critical issues that have been unnoticed by the dominant culture and underreported in the media.

Pope Francis’ encouragement to remember the traditions each immigrant family brings with them to their new country rang true to the ...

At at post-papal visit news conference Monday, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput reiterated his belief that the archdiocese has adeq ...

WHYY hosted a public forum on Sept. 15 about the long-running priorities of LGBT communities that may be overlooked in the mainstream emphasis on marriage equality.

Some lines full of pilgrims hoping to squeeze into the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for Sunday’s papal Mass were hours long. &n ...

As I do my daily scans of articles about workplace issues, I’ve noticed a recent cluster of writers on the topic of friendships in ...

Pope Francis has defended his words of consolation to U.S. bishops over the priest sex abuse scandal but says — for the first time — ...

The World Meeting of Families and papal visit are over, but the head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia says its effects will hopefully b ...