Our Motto: "Heart Speaks To Heart"

Encounter → Grow → Serve

We are an apostolic Catholic community, entrusted to Mary, that works with the university community and families to live a full Christian Life as “missionary disciples”, helping them encounter Christ, grow in their faith and their reconciliation with God and themselves, and sending them to serve, from one heart to another.

Relationship of the Newman Center to the Parish

In 2010 the Newman Center was entrusted to the pastoral leadership of St. Agatha - St. James Parish and supports the Catholic campus ministry to students at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University, as well as other students and young people in the area.

Our Vision

  • A faith community centered in our Lord Jesus under the guidance of Our Blessed Mother.

  • A faith community which has a sense of being a joyful family.

  • A welcoming faith community.

  • A faith community that grows in its faith (intellectual formation).

  • A faith community that promotes Reconciliation with oneself and others.

  • A faith community that is apostolic serving the poor (spiritual and material).

  • A faith community that is sustainable and effectively administered.