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 Camping during the papal visit will be available in a section of Philadelphia's East Fairmount Park. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Campground being set up for papal pilgrims in Fairmount Park

If you want a place to stay the night and are all right with roughing it, there is an alternative in Philadelphia during the papal visit. ...

11 years ago

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 SEPTA has added more stops on the Market Frankford and Broad Street lines during the papal visit. (NewsWorks file photo)
Philadelphia

SEPTA offering more subway stops for pope weekend and credits to monthly pass holders

It will get a little easier to use SEPTA’s Market Frankford and Broad Street lines to see Pope Francis.  SEPTA’s ...

11 years ago

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 The Democratic candidates in May's mayoral election collectively spent a lot of money. (NewsWorks/file art)

May’s mayoral primary ‘the most expensive election ever in the city’

With Labor Day (and, unofficially, summer) behind us, attention should soon return to Philadelphia’s mayoral race. You know, ...

11 years ago

 Tourists gather around the Liberty Bell on Independence Mall. (Matt Rourke/AP, file)
Philadelphia

Tickets for pope’s Independence Mall speech to be released Tuesday

On Tuesday, the World Meeting of Families will release 10,000 tickets to the public for Pope Francis’s speech in front of Independe ...

11 years ago

Philadelphia

Some in suburbs worry about getting to Philadelphia for papal visit

We’ve heard for weeks that the best way to get to Philadelphia for Pope Francis’s visit is to come on a bus with a church gro ...

11 years ago

 Mayoral candidate Jim Foster (Ind.) says his campaign will mimic 'one of the most successful and unexpected reversals of fortune in American political history.' (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

Jim Foster channels Truman and the fifties in his 2015 mayoral campaign

When community newspaper publisher James Foster submitted more than 3,000 signatures to ...

11 years ago

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Philadelphia

Ticket requirements for Pope Francis’ Philadelphia events

Organizers faced an outcry this week over a ticket plan keeping most of Pope Francis’ audience at his two biggest Philadelphia even ...

11 years ago

 ‘May you be blessed’, a patinated resin sculpture by Erica Volpe. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Fringe pope-inspired exhibit has sculptures, reverent and critical

To mark the upcoming visit by Pope Francis, the Globe Dye Works factory building in Philadelphia’s Frankford neighborhood is hostin ...

11 years ago

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 Everett Gillison, Philadelphia's director of public safety, says the Made in America festival offers city officials and event organizers a chance to watch for things that may need to change for the upcoming visit of Pope Francis. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Made in America a dry run for pope in Philly events

Preparations for a two-day concert this weekend on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway are nearly finished, but the event will serve as a dry r ...

11 years ago

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 Amanda Farese, director of marketing for Savona-Stavola, who is also an artist on the side, drew the picture of Pope Francis that adorns the box. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Find the pope on the pizza box

A limited edition pizza box with a drawing of the pope is doing big business.  Savona-Stavola Foods in West Deptford, a resta ...

11 years ago

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 In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis shakes hands with Mayor of Philadelphia Michael Nutter, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)
Philadelphia

Delaware pitches in for Pope Francis visit

Delaware volunteers help prepare for a historical papal visit to Philadelphia. The World Meeting of Families is the organization t ...

11 years ago

 PGW has been working with the Secret Service to replace potentially dangerous gas pipes in advance of the papal visit. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY file photo)
Philadelphia

PGW repairs in the pipeline for Pope Francis visit — and well beyond

If you’ve driven around Center City recently, you may have noticed a lot of construction work going on as crews with Philadelphia G ...

11 years ago

 Donna Farrell of the World Meeting of Families says  tickets will be available to the general public, in addition to Catholic parishes, for events featuring Pope Francis Sept. 26 and 27. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Papal event organizers distributing more tickets

Now that we know there are tickets necessary for the prime spots to view the papal Mass in Philadelphia … how will they be distribu ...

11 years ago

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 Cancellations for the big weekend have been coming fast as people get word of restrictions on moving around when Pope Francis is here, said Brian Krason, a manager with the Rodeway Inn on Walnut Street (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Center City hotel targeting workers instead of papal pilgrims

A Center City hotel is offering rooms for the papal weekend to workers.   The hotel manger says some visitors are dropping re ...

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