St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 1719 Morris Street in Philadelphia, PA 19145. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 59 Catholic congregations in the city.
Located in the Heart of South Philadelphia, St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Community is a Multicultural, Multilingual, Catholic Parish that has served the neighborhood for over 135 years.
1719 Morris Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19145Service times
- Saturday 6pm · Vigil
Phone: (215) 334-2312 · Website: https://staquinas.com/
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,107 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Pennsylvania — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 3,000 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.
- Poverty Rate: 23.7% (14.5–32.9%)
- Unemployment: 6.8% (2.7–11.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
Churches near St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church
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- Second Nazareth Missionary Church — 0.1 mi away
- True Gospel Tabernacle Family Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Gospel Tabernacle COGIC — 0.2 mi away
- Mt. Olivet Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Birth Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tasker Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Pentecostal United Holy Church — 0.3 mi away
- Indonesian Light Church — 0.3 mi away
- Philadelphia Praise Center — 0.3 mi away
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