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 Environmental activists carry a banner as they march toward a Roman Catholic church to coincide with Pope Francis' encyclical on climate change Thursday in Manila, Philippines. In a high-level, 190-page document released Thursday, Pope Francis  describes ongoing human damage to nature as 'one small sign of the ethical, cultural and spiritual crisis of modernity.' (Bullit Marquez/AP Photo)
Philadelphia

Philly faithful backing pope’s climate encyclical

Notable Catholics, including Republican presidential hopeful and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, have publicly criticized Pope Francis fo ...

11 years ago

 (Photo via PlanPhilly)
Philadelphia

Is Philly underestimating how many will come to see Pope Francis?

Donna Farrell, executive director of the World Meeting of the Families, described Pope Francis as comforting during today’s press confe ...

11 years ago

 A SEPTA system map, left, and a  World Meeting of Families SEPTA rail pickup location map,right. Just 31 stations will admit passengers, compared with the 282 stations generally operating. (Maps courtesy of SEPTA)
Philadelphia

SEPTA publicizing pickup points for train travelers during papal visit … but not drop-off

SEPTA has designated 31 regional rail stations for the hundreds of thousands expected to take the train to Philadelphia to see Pope Franc ...

11 years ago

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 A neighborhood in West Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
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Portraits through door frames, a changing Philadelphia

Knocking on doors to ask if people planned to vote in the upcoming election, I thought I could identify the pulse of the city. Turns out there are as many pulses as people.

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 Sometimes a woman just needs a mint chocolate chip cone. There it is, where it belongs, near the top of the list at Old City's Franklin Fountain. (Image courtesty of Eric Berley)

Building an enlightened ice cream business that favors craftsmanship over ‘thoughtless consumerism’

During these hazy, not-so-lazy days of summer, a woman’s mind turns to ice cream. In her quest for the perfect chocolate-chi ...

11 years ago

Domink Wegiel stands with a cut out of Pope Francis after another sucessful completion of the Biking4Vocations 1,400 mile ride from Florida to New York to raise awareness of priest vocations. Emily Cohen/for Newsworks
Philadelphia

‘Pop-Up Pope Francis’ greets biking priests, seminarians on 1,400-mile pilgrimage to City Ave. seminary

In the home stretch of a bicycle pilgrimage that started three weeks ago in St. Augustine, Fla., two priests and three seminarians arrive ...

11 years ago

 Jim Kenney prepares to deliver his victory speech after winning the Democratic mayoral primary on May 19. (Stephanie Aaronson/via The Next Mayor Partnership)

How ‘The Blues Brothers’ movie helps explain Jim Kenney’s mayoral-primary win

Three weeks after Jim Kenney’s overwhelming victory in the Democratic mayoral primary, the Inquirer‘s Chris Hepp dou ...

11 years ago

 Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill greet mourners during the viewing for former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden inside St. Anthony of Padua in Wilmington, Del., on Friday, June 5, 2015. Biden, the eldest son of Vice President Joe Biden, died of brain cancer Saturday at age 46. (William Bretzger/The Wilmington News-Journal via AP, Pool)

Thousands of mourners say goodbye to Beau Biden at public viewing in Wilmington [VIDEO]

Standing at the front of the line outside Wilmington’s St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church on Friday morning, Lois Lipton Parker c ...

11 years ago

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 Galit Carmely holds court at her Old City boutique My Little Redemption. (Images courtesy of Lauren Elena McGrath)

No matter how you dress it up, your ‘little redemption’ comes from within

If you wander Old City north of Market Street, you pass through a rich mix of charming boutiques, boarded storefronts plastered with perm ...

11 years ago

 Laughs were had by all when Nelson Diaz asked whether Jim Kenney had his microphone intentionally turned off at a primary-race mayoral forum. (Tracie Van Auken/for NewsWorks)

Diaz spokesman offers six ideas that Jim Kenney should steal

Our good friends over at Plan Philly ran a post today in which Barry Caro, the communications and policy director for Nelson Dia ...

11 years ago

New Jersey

Democrat Barbara Buono accused of violating campaign-finance rules in her race against Gov Christie

A year and a half after her gubernatorial bid was crushed by Gov. Chris Christie’s reelection juggernaut, former state senator Barbara ...

11 years ago

 Doug Oliver garnered much support in a political website's push to find someone to run against U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah next year. (NewsWorks/file art)

Despite online push, Oliver has no definitive plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Fattah

Crowdpac, a political-technology startup site which ...

11 years ago

Jones: Is Gov. Wolf following Jim Kenney’s lead on marijuana decriminalization?

Over on The Philadelphia Experiment, Solomon Jones considers whether Gov. Tom Wolf saying he believes marijuana should be decrim ...

11 years ago

 Mayor Michael Nutter, mayoral candidate Jim Kenney and city Executive Director Eva Gladstein (R-L) spoke at Tuesday morning's early childhood-education plan launch. (Stephanie Aaronson/via The Next Mayor partnership)

Nutter, Kenney join education leaders to unveil ‘early childhood-learning plan’ [updated]

In a Children’s Village classroom packed to the hilt with likeminded adult ...

11 years ago

 Jim Kenney speaks at Monday's press conference held on a Fairmount Water Works gazebo to celebrate the restoration of Clean Water Act protections. (Brian Hickey/WHYY)

Kenney joins environmentalists to celebrate bolstered Clean Water Act

On a gazebo overlooking the Fairmount Dam, mayoral candidate Jim ...

11 years ago

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