{"id":302428,"date":"2026-10-08T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302428\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:20:15","slug":"young-catholic-professionals-celebrate-five-years-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302428\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Catholic Professionals Celebrate Five Years in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted October 8, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>See scenes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youngcatholicprofessionals.org\/chapter\/philadelphia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Young Catholic Professionals (YCP) Philadelphia Chapter\u2019s<\/a> 5th Anniversary \u201cHere &amp; Now\u201d Gala on Oct. 1. The celebration began with Mass at Stella Maris Church celebrated by Archbishop Nelson P\u00e9rez and continued aboard the Moshulu at Penn\u2019s Landing, where nearly 150 attendees gathered for dinner and fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>During the gala, Archbishop P\u00e9rez received the Founding Vision Award for his leadership and support in establishing YCP Philadelphia. Kasey Massaro, the chapter\u2019s founding president, received the Trailblazer Award, and Steve McClatchy was honored with the Distinguished Speaker Award for his contributions to the formation of young Catholic professionals. Archbishop P\u00e9rez also reflected on the call to be missionary disciples. (Photos by Sarah Webb.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted October 8, 2026 See scenes from the Young Catholic Professionals (YCP) Philadelphia Chapter\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[822,116148,69,71,70,33660],"class_list":["post-302428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-archbishop-nelson-perez","tag-missionary-disciples","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-young-catholic-professionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302428","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=302428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}