Celebration for St. Francis Xavier Brings the Parish Together
On Friday, December 2, members of the Parish Pastoral Council, Finance Council, Comité de Cristo Rey, and School Advisory Board hosted a celebration in honor of the patron of our parish, St. Francis Xavier.
Parishioner Visits St. John Neumann’s Birthplace
During his preparations for the Annual William K. Collinge lecture at St. Francis Xavier last summer, parishioner Dr. Charles Strauss learned a great deal about St. John Neumann, a 19th-century Bishop of Philadelphia who laid the cornerstone for St. Francis Xavier’s Historic Church in 1852 and returned to dedicate the church on July 31, 1853, the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola. The Strauss family had already prepared to spend the fall in Prague, as Charles and his wife, Elizabeth’s academic and professional ventures would take them to St. John Neumann’s homeland.
10th Annual Collinge Lecture will center on St. John Neumann
Dr. Charles Strauss, Associate Professor of History at Mount St. Mary’s University, will deliver “ʻThe Church as Field Hospital’: St. John Neumann, St. Francis Xavier Parish, and Catholic Social Teaching” as the tenth annual William K. Collinge Lecture.