{"id":200105,"date":"2026-05-22T19:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200105\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:43:09","slug":"philadelphia-priests-gather-in-hershey-for-annual-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200105\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Priests Gather in Hershey for Annual Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted May 22, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>More than 230 archdiocesan priests joined Archbishop P\u00e9rez and Philadelphia auxiliary bishops May 18\u201321 at a conference center in Hershey, Pa., for the annual Priests\u2019 Convocation, a four-day gathering of prayer, reflection and fellowship. This year\u2019s theme was \u201cKeep Them in Your Name\u201d (John 17:11).<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/992253256836603\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 20 Facebook video<\/a>, Archbishop P\u00e9rez asked for prayers as priests celebrate their priesthood and deepen their relationship with the Lord, one another and the faithful of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Brian McCarthy, chief strategy officer for the Archdiocese, and Dan Cellucci, president and CEO of the Catholic Leadership Institute, provided an update on the Trust and Hope Initiative. Priests also heard from the Rev. Christopher Martin, vicar for strategic planning for the Archdiocese of St. Louis. (Photos by Sarah Webb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted May 22, 2026 More than 230 archdiocesan priests joined Archbishop P\u00e9rez and Philadelphia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23837,88615,88616,88617,69,88618,71,70,26747,88619],"class_list":["post-200105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-archbishop-perez","tag-archdiocesan-priests","tag-gospel-of-john","tag-keep-them-in-your-name","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-auxiliary-bishops","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-priests","tag-priests-convocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}