ARCHBISHOP FOLEY IN U.S. TO MARK CHURCH ANNIVERSARIES

VATICAN CITY, MAY 5, 2003 (VIS) - Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, is in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. where, in recent days, he has delivered homilies at Masses marking anniversaries of schools, priestly ordinations and parishes.

On May 2 he preached at the Mass in Old St. Joseph's Church in Philadelphia to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the graduation class of 1953, of which he was a member, from St. Joseph's Preparatory School. On May 3 he marked the 25th anniversary of a priestly ordination at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Richboro and yesterday he gave the homily at the 75th anniversary Mass of Sacred Heart Church in Havertown. Today in Bensalem, the archbishop will delivery a homily during Mass in the Chapel of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament at the Shrine of St. Katherine Drexel to celebrate the 100th anniversary of St. Charles Borromeo Parish.

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