Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 1600 Morris Road Southeast in Washington, DC 20020. It is one of 867 churches in Washington, and one of 32 Catholic congregations in the city.
To integrate Health and Faith within the Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) parish, the neighborhood and the surrounding community.
Our pastoral mission is to worship and bear witness in the Church as well as the community by serving at Mass and to our fellow parishioners who are sick and/or homebound.
1600 Morris Road Southeast, Washington, DC, 20020Website: https://olphsedc.com/
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story.
Ministries at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church
- Health Ministry
- Lazarus Bereavement
- Knights of the Altar
- Choirs
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The community around Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 42.5%
- Food Insecurity: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 35.1% (20.3–49.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (2.1–15.8%)
- Obesity: 36.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Washington city is served by 535 churches — about one congregation for every 1,253 residents.
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