TAMAQUA – The students of St. Jerome Regional School left a little bit of themselves at their final Mass together in St. John XXIII Roman Catholic Church on Friday morning, but they also took… ...

St. John XXIII continues to grow with its combination of hospitality, liturgical creativity and social outreach. Its new building, due to be completed by November 2018, will reflect that energy.

So important was Loreto to John XXIII that when St. Paul VI wanted to do something special in 1971 for his predecessor’s priest secretary, Monsignor Loris Capovilla, he named him the prelate of ...

St. John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli in Sotto il Monte, a village of Italy's Bergamo province, Nov. 25, 1881, as the fourth of 13 children.