Faith & Values

Local notes: Basement sale to benefit library, author event with Carolyn Kleinman, show announced at Junction Center

Oct 16, 2021

Here are a few recent news items from Lancaster County's faith and values community.

F&M professor's new book is 'supposed to bother you'

Oct 9, 2021

John Modern, an author, historian and professor of religious studies at Franklin & Marshall College, often suggests his students try his favorite drug.

Local notes: MDS helps woman after house fire; free concert at Lancaster COB and more

Oct 9, 2021

Lancaster County has a rich, diverse faith community.

Here's how hybrid homeschooling works at Pathways schools in East Earl, Denver; Heritage Days event is Oct. 16

Oct 9, 2021

Imagine kids counting down the days during summer until school starts again.

Alumnae share memories of Sacred Heart Academy of Lancaster [photos]

Oct 2, 2021

Members of the Holy Cross Alumnae Association share keepsakes and memories from the Sacred Heart Academy. The association will host a banquet Sunday, Oct. 3.

Meet the women keeping Sacred Heart Academy's memory alive; they'll host a banquet Sunday

Oct 2, 2021

Nonagenarians Pat Sullivan and Romaine Templeton Frey fondly remember school days at Sacred Heart Academy. Though the Catholic girls school closed in 1958, memories live on through the Holy Cross Alumnae Association.

Catholic priest, who leads Mass in Swahili in Lancaster, celebrates his Silver Jubilee

Sep 25, 2021

When Father Deogratias Rwegasira was a young teacher in a Catholic school in Kigoma, Tanzania, a priest asked him if he wanted to be married.

Servant Stage brings ‘Amazing Grace’ musical to LBC stage Oct. 1-17

Sep 25, 2021

It was a Friday in late June 2015, when President Barack Obama was eulogizing his friend South Carolina state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, a pastor who had been killed with eight others in a Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting.

Priest leads Mass in Swahili at St. Joseph's Catholic Church [photos]

Sep 25, 2021

The Rev. Deogratias Rwegasira, a hospital chaplain who was born in Tanzania, leads mass in Swahili at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Lancaster. He recently celebrated his Silver Jubilee of his ordination. Click the arrows to see photos from that special service.