An 18-inch pipe bomb was discovered behind a Catholic church in Philadelphia Sunday afternoon, prompting the bomb squad to respond to the scene. A passerby found a PVC pipe with capped ends and black ...

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A Roman Catholic monsignor will let the Philadelphia archdiocese pay his legal fees in a clergy abuse case despite a warning that at trial his interests could conflict with the church's. The ...

Two parish administrators at two different Philadelphia churches must work to undo church renovations that drew both objections from parishioners and corrections from church officials, who said the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Parishioners of a 152-year-old historically Black Catholic Church in Philadelphia allege segregation and want their priest removed. One of those parishioners, Carolyn Jenkins, ...

A Philadelphia priest has admitted to sexually abusing a teen girl who was once an altar server at his parish. Fr. Armand D. Garcia appeared in a Philadelphia courtroom Oct. 23 to plead guilty to ...

Philadelphia police found '18-inch' pipe bomb behind Catholic church St. Dominic Parish. WTXF-TV An apparent homemade pipe bomb was found behind a Catholic church Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia, ...

An 18-inch pipe bomb was found behind a Catholic church in Philadelphia and removed by the police department’s bomb squad. According to a police report, a passerby found the pipe bomb behind St.